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Valeria Anderson-Käsper

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Sandra Kartau

Interview with Valeria Anderson-Käsperiga about who talk about living and making films in the Soviet times.
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Õnnemaastikud

2015 | Documentary | Director: Kalev Lepik
About film: Tõnu Virve

Original title (in Estonian): "Filmist: Tõnu Virve"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Rebeka Rummel

How did one of the best Estonian sci-fi films get made during the Soviet time? Was the censorship bearable? Film artist and director, Tõnu Virve has come to BFM Film pavilion to talk about the making of different films and working with well-known Estonian directors. What kind of partnership has brought Virve to one of the film composers, Sven Grünberg? How does Virve perceive the essence of a female director? During the interview, it becomes clear what lies behind the charismatic artist Tõnu Virve - it is an unmeasurable passion towards cinema.
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Afghanistan Project

Original title: Afganistani projekt

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.

The project of Afghan war has ended for Estonia; however, several civil missions in the field of education and training are still going on. The documentary follows the last days of three Estonian servicemen left in Afghan in Camp Bastion; the efforts of the people from Tallinn University to train the master's and doctoral students of information technology at Kabul University; the meeting between Pille Alaver, the Human Rights Adviser, and mistreated Afghan women in Kabul police station; and training midwives in the village of Dare Souf. The film forms a mosaic out of various fragments of the life in ...
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Big City Beat

Original title: Suurlinna biit

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli

A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.

Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.
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Butterfly In a Jar

Original title (in Estonian): "Liblikas purgis"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Documentary film student Maria Aua ́s short film about a boy called Martin who has a hyperkinetic behaviour disorder.

7 year old Martin is lika butterfly who wishes to fly where ever his soul leads him. But unfortunately he has to visit regularly terapeuts and specialists. Is there something wrong with the boy at all? Maybe the reality where the society is trying to capture him, is rather problematic.
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Closure

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

An insignificant janitor needs recognition from other people to validate his own existence.

An insignificant theater janitor struggles between forgiveness and revenge towards a famous actor with whom he shares a traumatic past.
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Culprit

Original title in Estonian: Süüdlane

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Indrek Kaine

The short film by Indrek Kaine, Kalev Smidt, Jan Andresson, Veiko Jaks and Randel Pomber talks about guilt through the eyes of a child.

Indrek is a humble boy, who is a victim of school violence: he is forced to do a prank which leads him to police questioning.
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Dawn

Original title (Latvian): Ausma

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Has betrayal in Soviet time become an act of heroism of modern times?

This film is based on a Soviet propaganda story (most likely false) about “Young Pioneer” (Soviet equivalent to the "Boy Scout") Morozov who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, even at the expense of family ties. In the Soviet Union this story was a subject of many books, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, opera and also the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein. In our film 75 years later we ...
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Fish in the Sea

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

Film about love and letting go.

The film takes the spectator to step inside of the oppressive time after an uttermost break-up. It researches the state of mind in the time, when one is too tired to cry and can’t do anything else but just sit and stare ahead, and try to accept the situation of being now only a unit of one instead of two. It tells about the seek of answers in the stage where the whole foundation on what one has been building the life and future on so far, has fallen off, and under the feet there is only emptiness.
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