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We are who we are

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kateryna Hantseva

We Are Who We Are investigates the depiction of human faces in advertisements, paintings and real life.

At a time when the line gets more and more blurred between what is real and what is fake, We Are Who We Are investigates the depiction of human faces as they are portrayed in advertise- ments, paintings and real life.
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Early Bird

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akseli Leppänen

A bittersweet story of broken dreams and human determination.

A character driven short documentary, focusing on a professional musician Ville Leppänen, who about 5 years ago decided to take up a side job as a night mail deliverer, due to financial instability and unwise use of money. Unfortunately because of the current world situation with the pandemic and the lack of work within the music world, Ville has no other choice than to keep delivering mail at night and keep music more or less a passion hobby on the side. The story presented in “EARLY BIRD” is one of bittersweet about broken dreams and determination for one’s love of ...
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Horsepower

Original title: Hobujõud

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator.

Horsepower is a unit that has dropped behind in time. Also dropping in time are the machines using fossil fuels, and even human relations, at least in the way that the older generations see them. In the 1920s, vehicles with combustible engines began to take over the work done by the horses. Just a hundred years later, virtual reality is in the beginning of its triumph, as is physical solitude that comes with it. Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator. Turning the wheel ...
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Pressure

2022 | Students film, Music video | Director: Christina Kraft

Story about a marriage relationship and its true colours behind closed doors.

A complicated marriage story where true selves come to light behind closed doors. Where the wife gives her everything, yet the man does barely anything. A story of what happens when you take things for granted and let them slip past your fingers, losing them all forever. A story through wife’s eyes in a man’s dream.
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Black and White Colours

Original title in Estonian: Värvid must-valgel

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: German Golub

The short film “Black and White Colours” by BFM film students is a psychological satire about the time when television was transitioning from black and white to colour.

Paula is an experienced news anchor whose biggest fear is ageing. The 70s TV is transitioning from black and white to colour. The changes trigger her insecurities and the border between what is reality and what is delusion starts to disintegrate.
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Muse

Original title (in Estonian): "Muusa"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Rauno Polman

“Muse” is a film by II year film students, based on the Dogma 95 concept. Film discovers the subject of how young people perceive the world around them. No feeling, emotion or thought is hidden. But still, while creating their own unique understanding of reality, real life is slowly starting to slip away.

Kristjan is a shy young man, trying to get to know a beautiful girl he once spotted in a cafe. One day, in their usual cafe, he finally decides to make his move towards her. Only to discover that someone is already there to ruin his plans. Piece by piece his illusions are starting to shatter and Kristjan has to decide whether to stick to his dreams or let life take its natural course.
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Toothfairy

Original title in Estonian: "Hambahaldjas"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sissel-Maria Mägi

A story about a man, who, going against the materialistic culture of life finds his passion in helping other people.

Tooth fairy is a short documentary about expectations and reality in life. The core of this film is middle aged man Heino Kalm who works as a dental technician, presumably well paid and valued profession, but who doesn’t get paid for it and who lives in a social house. The purpose of this documentary is to brake prejudice . This film goes back to the simplicity of life, to show how little is needed to be and become happy.
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State of Mind

Original title (in Estonian): "Meeleseisund"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sten-Robert Pullerits

State of Mind attempts to understand the mind of a young man living with a psychological disorder. Striving towards comprehending the conflict between his reality and the actual.

A young author, Frank, is having troubles finishing his new book, after being successful with his first one. In order to find inpsiration, he decided to admit himself into a psychiatric hospital and agrees to seemingly unecessary treatment. However, as time passes, he realizes that reality as he knows it might not be real after all.
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The Days That Confused

Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

The 27-year- old protagonist Allar moves from one provincial party to another, meeting colorful characters and finding himself in evermore confusing circumstances. The amounting tension and absurdity of surrounding events lead Allar to give serious thought to his life. What follows is a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia to finally discover meaning in oneself.
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