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1944

Original title: 1944

2015 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, often referred to as the Battle of the European SS. WWII.1944. The bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Men brought out of Siberian labour camps and now returning home. Today 70 years on, the makers of Estonia's biggest ever box-office success ...
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About film: Tõnu Virve

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

2015 | Exercises (factual/documentary), Students film | 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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About movie and life

Original title (in Estonian): "Filmist ja elust"

2015 | Exercises (factual/documentary), Students film | Director: Olari Oja

This interview is about estonian director Rasmus Merivoo.
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Afghanistan Project

Original title: Afganistani projekt

2015 | Observation, Documentary | 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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Anto Raukas

2015 | Making of, Documentary | Director:
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Brothers

Original title (in Estonian): "Vennad"

2015 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Karl Jakob Jürna

Patriots in the game of espionage chess between the West and East.

The Iron curtain has fallen on the continent and the West in clueless what is going on in Soviet Union. The western intelligence services have started training exiled patriots to become their eyes and ears in their occupied homelands. This is the story of Estonian men, who returned back home as spies.
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Fish in the Sea

2015 | Short, Students film | 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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Ghost Mountaineer

Original title: Must alpinist

2015 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor), who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. ...
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Hostess of Järveristi Farm

Original title (in Estonian): "Järveristi talu perenaine"

2015 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Aigar Vals

The story follows an old, hard-working widow in a big farm house. Her working experience started when she was just six year old - according to modern parameters it's still childhood. She believes that work comes first.
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House of Unconciousness

Original title: Alateadvuse maja

2015 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Priit Tender

A psychedelic drama about a chimney sweeper and a burning woman.

This film is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most frequently.
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