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No Ticket, No Perfume

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Aino M. Salmi

A road trip to freedom. We are following two guys one might call hippies or anarchists. Some might call them simply bums. They don’t really categorise themselves. We dive into their type of lifestyle: a careless and free way of living and thinking. And there are no worries on the open road. Sort of.
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Simply a man

Original title (in Estonian): "Muidu üks mees"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

“Simply a man” is a documentary film about Arkaadi Sai who lives in a former kolkhoz village which is now dying out. Arkaadi lives in a complete solitude and nothing is actually happening in his life. One day a filmmaker comes to Arkaadi to make a film about him. But in order to make a film something has to happen. So this film happens.
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Sooviklassika viimane tund

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Sweet Secret

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Polina Linovitskaja

You cannot be sad when you are eating Ice Cream. By our film we would like to show how different are children expectations from the reality of ice cream manufacturing.
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The Butterfly Man

Original title: Liblikmees

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Edina Csüllög

A dream-like, uncanny short film telling about Anselm who dreams to become a magician.

Lonesome and clumsy Anselm works as a dedicated assistant to a famous magician Ernesto in Boruslawski Circus. Anselm secretly practises tricks as his deepest wish is to become a great magician himself. Finally the big moment arises for him when Ernesto bewitches himself and disappears. For a moment, Anselm becomes a great favourite of the audience, but his miraculous ability to conjure up butterflies from himself becomes fatal both for himself and for the circus.
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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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The Kazõm Report

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Laura Kõiv

Documentary about Khanty children and bout their games and worldview.

Khanty children plays are shown where comes out connections to surrounding world while having conversations and interviews within guests from abroad.
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The Story of the Baltic University

Title in Estonian: Balti Ülikooli lugu

2015 | Documentary | Director: Helga Merits

Documentary about the activities of the Baltic University in post-war Hamburg.

The lecturers of Baltic origin founded the Baltic University in the post-war desolated Hamburg in 1946. The idea to establish a university for refugees was proposed by professor Fricis Gulbis, a former vice-rector of the University of Riga. In Hamburg he met with representatives from other Baltic states and together they tried to get the approval for starting with the academic courses. The university had a successful beginning, yet soon various issues emerged. One could not use the word "Baltic" any more. Lecturers were fired, the number of students was decreased and there was a strong suggestion to emigrate. It ...
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Undeground

Original title: Põranda all

2015 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

UNDERGROUND is based on the well known political process held in Estonia almost forty years ago, and portrays several renowned dissidents, as well as those who did not remain in the spotlight due to certain historical circumstances.

PÕRANDA ALL / UNDERGROUND is based on the well known political process held in Estonia almost forty years ago, and portrays several renowned dissidents, as well as those who did not remain in the spotlight due to certain historical circumstances. Story focuses on an important aspect of Estonia's underground freedom fight – the sharing and distribution of information. Everyone had their own motivation for joining underground movement but all of them sacrificed themselves for freedom. And did freedom claim them as one of their own? The film is based on the well known political process in 1975 held in Estonia, and ...
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Virolog

Original title: Viirusekandur

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

Charismatic freethinker and libertine Kalev Rajangu is searching new intellectual and physical challenges to his life. Unfortunately life is offering only too lousy options.

Kalev Rajangu is a small town organist, a grave-digger, a radical artist and charismatic lector, a free thinker and a provocateur, for somebody a real genius for somebody a real madman. But the hermits life doesn’t offer too many challenges. He decides to demolish the system with süstem’s own means and herald his message to the most influential audience. Rain Tolk’s and Andres Maimik’s documentary is following his triumphs and lowpoints on this hard but interesting journey.
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