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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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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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Day of Daisies

Original title: Karikakrapäev

2015 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

The only excuse to miss a training is the death of your mother-in- law.

75 years ago young enthusiast Helju Mikkel (later known as Memm) brought together a group of students who were interested in folk arts. They started to study and perform old Estonian folk songs and dances and thus founded one of the oldest performance groups in Estonia: University of Tartu Folk Dance Ensemble. With the rise of interest in folk arts, the group became extremely popular during Soviet times, and founds it way to television, Olympic games etc. All these years it carried on both despite and thanks to the authorities. In "Day of Daisies" Helju Mikkel and Henn Tiivel (leaders of the ...
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Englas. Old Warrior

Original title: Englas. Vana sõdur

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm

This is the story of the two times wrestling World Champion August Englas.

This is the story of the two times wrestling World Champion August Englas. Born and raised in Pühajärve County, fought on the "right" side in WWII in Saaremaa and Kuramaa, wounded twice, made great things in sports world - a vital 90-year-old man speaks of his life and sportsman's career, love and marriage, of his home in Nõmme, Sihi Street, built with his own hands. He speaks of everything that is important to him. This is a story of an individual evolving in the magic and pain of history. Wins and failures (the fourth place in Helsinki Olympic Games stays a thorn ...
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Fast Eddy's Old News

Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised

2015 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?
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Grey

Original title (in Estonian): "Hall"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Jürgen Volmer

Little boy walks along God`s path if he incures the danger to his family without his knowledge.

The forest is older than us. For a lot of different nation `s mythology is a Wolf king of the forest, who sees, hears and knows everything.  Little boy Mart lives beside the forest with his family, something awful is happened in family and touched all the family members. Mother tries to save the daughter by religional ritual but little Mart is too young to understand a God and he incur danger his family future. A Wolf always gets its share.
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HDTanel

Original title: Mängur

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Kivirand, Robi Uppin

Documentary by Maria Kivirand and Robi Uppin about a 30-year-old man who spends his time in virtual reality.

Estonian most famous YouTuber is HDTanel whose videos are being watched by tens of thousands young fans. How is the life of a YouTuber, what dreams does he have and why has a 30 year old young man chosen such a profession? Will he never grow up or on the contrary, has he discovered the secret we all want - a dream job.
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Half of It Is Gone

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ilker Tüsümel

This is a movie telling the story of all the Turkish boys becoming men.

Half of It Is Gone is a 28-minute long documentary about circumcision that includes both subjective and objective elements. While the story of the director’s own circumcision is told through the director’s own home video circumcision footages, the topic is also examined in different aspects like religion, medicine and psychology through interviews with the experts. This is the story of all the Turkish boys on their way to become a man.
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Homecoming

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akio Yuguchi

"Homecoming" portrays various topics in life, such as the life and death, fatalism and father and son.

"Homecoming" is a two-track visual poem following Akio Yuguchi’s journey back into his childhood and his quest for coming to terms with living abroad far from his former home. Facing up to past and future challenges, the protagonist decides to send a letter of condolence to his father, who lives in Japan in a high-risk area for earthquakes and tsunamis. Through the rhythm of his reflective soliloquy, the desire for homecoming sounds a bell for the departed while heralding the dawn of a new life.
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Interview with Hardi Volmer

Original title (in Estonian): "Intervjuu Hardi Volmeriga"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Mona Mi Mikkin

Interview with Hardi Volmer, where we talk about him, what he does, and about Estonian film.
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