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Ükskord on Eesti riik

2016 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp
Amalimbo

2016 | Animation, Cartoon, Other types of animation | Director: Juan Pablo Libossart

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo as she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ after the recent death of her beloved father.

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently dead father. A short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
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An Old Man and an Old Woman. An Erzya Story

Original title: Taat ja memm

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

An old man and an old woman got into a tiff. The old man went fishing and did not want to go home. In response to the old woman’s prayers, the god Nishkepaz rotted the old man’s nets. He returned home, but the wife lamented, „We have nothing to eat!“ The old man replied, „We’ve got fish in the barn, let’s sell it and buy bread, salt and mead!“

An old man and an old woman got into a tiff. The old man went fishing and did not want to go home. In response to the old woman’s prayers, the god Nishkepaz rotted the old man’s nets. He returned home, but the wife lamented, „We have nothing to eat!“ The old man replied, „We’ve got fish in the barn, let’s sell it and buy bread, salt and mead!“
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Behind the Lightbox

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sissel-Maria Mägi, Margot Privoi

The short documentary made by second year media student follows and speaks with the second year animator student who is currently working on his first animation film.

A creative observational documentary following a young artist in the beginning of this journey as an animator. His ways of trying to find balance between the real and fantasy world.
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Chase

2016 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Dagmara Kucinska

Two guys are running through the corridors of Tallinn University. In the end the assassin kills the thief.
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Class Reunion

Original title: Klassikokkutulek

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

It’s been 25 years since graduation and three friends are headed to their big class reunion. On the night before the reunion, the guys go out to party and feel like they are 18 once again. But the world around them, as well as their physique, has changed drastically over the past 25 years...

The three buddies Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Genka) are invited to the 25-year anniversary of their high school graduation. Actually, Mart and Andres are inclined to stay home, but Toomas talks them into going. He has organized a great weekend with drinks, ladies and sauna as a warm-up event to the class reunion. The question is whether they actually survive the Tallinn nightlife... and if they ever arrive to meet their old class-mates! The film takes a close look at the modern man at the very moment when he discovers that he is no longer 18, ...
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Come Back Free

Original title: Tule tagasi vabana

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison.

A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens’ parting words to one another are, “May you come back free!”
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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Empty Space

Original title: Tühi ruum

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

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

A 10-years old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead puppy she got father she had no idea he was still alive. This documentary based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.
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Family Lies

Original title: Perekonnavaled

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

“Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald (Roman Baskin), who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei (Tambet Tuisk) must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. “Family ...
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