childhood

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    • Deep, funny and provocative story of a girl who escaped a hippy eco-commune as a child and became a cosmopolitan citizen. Who will save the planet if not the last generation?

    • How can we talk about life’s hardest truths and still hold on to not just the will to live—but the joy of it?

    • Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer.

      • 2024
      • Feature film, Comedy, Thriller, Romance, Road movie, Horror, Fantasy
      • Sander Maran
    • A video made for the musical piece “Su ema” by Riste Sofie Kääri.

    • As a student, the protagonist watches Emir Kusturica’s film “Black cat, white cat”, about the wacky life of the Balkans, and suddenly realizes that he has already seen all this in his childhood in Võrumaa. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.

    • The work is about the activities that took place when you were younger and the nostalgic feeling that comes with it: skateboarding, video games, playgrounds. At the same time, remembering the past has been compared to a feeling of a young god.

    • "may in eden" is a visually ambitious, slightly surreal, fictional short film by Sofiya Babiy and Emily Bruus. The protagonist Sophie dies and in the afterlife re-experiences turning points of her life.

    • A personal family documentary in which the author has conversations with family, reflects on childhood wounds and tries to communicate with the departed family member by recreating him audiovisually.

    • A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.

    • Liis Slugens documentary talks about a young burlesque dancer Miss Chrissy Kiss and how burlesque has changed her life radically.

    • Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

    • Film student Greta Liht`s short movie is about childhood and how to let those memories and places go. Therefore the main topic is letting go.

    • Teresa Juksaar’s short film is about childhood friends who all remember the incident that happened years ago differently.

    • A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

    • Following the life of estonian poet Triin Soomets as she reminisces with her poetry.

    • This is a film about opportunities and choices, about fears and loneliness, about freedom and love. This is a story of one generation; a film about growing up. It is a sequel to a documentary "The Time Is Now" made 12 years ago, when we watched Karit, Doris, Fred and Joonas during their first year in school.

    • Leo Vissak’s movie tells a story about a kid whose father hates fun.

    • Joosep Ehasalu’s observational short documentary shows a slice of idyllic childhood near Elva.

    • Film student Joosep Ehasalu’s short documentary glimpses in a small boy`s secret world, filled with ships and the sea and some trouble concentrating.

    • This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

    • When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.

    • Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the desire to pull the mask off the maestro and show the real Rannap to the extent possible.

    • Teresa Juksaar's short film ''Peaceful Night'' is about a young girl who is starting her independent life.

    • A short creative documentary that explores the process of getting mentally and physically naked.

    • The filmmaker seeks to discover the relationship with his emotionally distant father.

    • The film talks about boyhood, friendship, first love, loss of loved ones, self-discovery, and coming of age. Despite the brutality and tragedy, it is a warm and humorous story of caring, humanity, and love.

    • The commercial made by the students of the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication Institute in cooperation with Coop Bank introduces the Coop Sula service through nostalgia and childhood games.

    • Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...

    • It was the first time that myworld coincided with how I felt inside-at war.

    • Abdolhossein Rezevani’s dreamy documentary takes us down on the memory lane of the filmmaker’s life and the collective memory of Iran as a whole.

      • 2020
      • Other categories
    • This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

      • 2020
      • Documentary
    • An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.

    • We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.

    • Media student Silvia Lorenzi short film about reconnection of people thought memories and the feeling they provoke.

    • A story of how to not lose our childhood dreams as we grow up and face adult life.

    • Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

    • "Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

    • It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

    • Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

    • A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

    • Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

    • Documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.