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Sneakerheads

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristi Prik

The short TV documentary ‘Sneakerheads’ by Kristi Prik gives to sneakerheads the chance to talk about their unusual hobby.

A sneakerhead is a person who collects, trades or admires sneakers as a hobby. The birth of the sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the beginning of 1980’s mostly thanks to basketball, especially Michael Jordan and hip-hop music. Sneakerheading in Estonia is a far more recent event – it has only been around for a decade the most. This journalistic TV documentary will give the viewer an insight to the world of sneakerhead.
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Sparkling Rivers

Original title: Sädemete jõed

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

Georgia is not only a country of wine and high mountains, but it is has also more than 25 000 rivers. Running water is a richness, that has been noticed by a lot of investors and made Georgia their desired destination. Even now 80 per cent of Georgian electricity comes from hydroelectricity power plants and in the near future there are plans to construct more than 100 new stations. For thousands of people it means they have to be resettled. Shady deals, unclear investors registered in tax havens, energy minister’s business interests in the hydro construction company and deaths by ...
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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher
Taevakerad

2016 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Liina Siib
The Man From Samaria

Original title (in Estonian): "Samaaria mees"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Short documentary, by Maria Aua, is a story about a pastor who takes fatherly care of man crushed by life at Christian centre called Samaria.

Labyrinths, corridors, rooms, and men - they're stuck in there. How to find a way out?
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A Bear Judges The Brides. A Mansi Story

Original title: Karu hindab pruute

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Martinus Daane Klemet

A young Mansi man wanted to get married. A bear chosen by the old men was to assess the worth of the bride. A woman shaman, Mother of Mothers, took the first girl to the bear. It silently moved its lips: the girls was poorly behaved. The young man picked another girl who was also taken to the bear. The girl took fright and paled: she would die young. But the third girl blushed: she was of good behaviour and would live long. The bear left quietly.

A young Mansi man wanted to get married. A bear chosen by the old men was to assess the worth of the bride. A woman shaman, Mother of Mothers, took the first girl to the bear. It silently moved its lips: the girls was poorly behaved. The young man picked another girl who was also taken to the bear. The girl took fright and paled: she would die young. But the third girl blushed: she was of good behaviour and would live long. The bear left quietly.
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Aktuaalne Narva

2016 | Other categories | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Documentary about city of Narva.

Film is based on Estonian National Broadcasting archives filmed during 1960 till 2016.
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Beer Revolution

Original title: Õllerevolutsioon

2016 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

Documentary follows the rising phenomenon of craft beer scene in Estonia throughout 2015 along with its main protagonists – brewers, sellers and variously minded consumers.

Craft beer, microbrewery, IPA, IBU, gipsy breweries, top- and post-fermentation – these are just a few keywords that for the past couple of years can be heard more and more often among serious beer enthusiasts. This prompts a fair question: “What is it all about?” „Beer Revolution“ does not provide straight answers but it does give a kaleidoscopic overview of producers, sellers and consumers of craft beers in Estonia in 2015.
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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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Bonus track

2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik