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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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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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Four Breaths

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Agladze

Four women are sharing their thoughts and ideas regarding death.

Film tells a story about four women. All of them, directly or indirectly, are connected to death. Death is seen, heard, told and felt in this film, through four women.
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Ghost

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Worapoj In-lao

Based on personal journey, conjunction of superstitious belief and Ecocriticism.

Ghost is the personal documentary film about the journey of film student who travel to the northern Thailand regularly for touristic sake, every time he will be warned by the locals to not come over in the summer by threatfully claiming that guardian spirit will not welcome non-local. He finds that caution suspicious but appealing to prove. Hence he makes the returned journey which leads him to face unrecognized place.
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How To Make Water

2016 | Advertising/Promotion, Students film, Short | Director: Johannes Straßner

"How to Make Water" is a short comedy film produced for the Estonian Waterworks Association.

It's a playful approach to the question: "What would we do without the luxury of tap water?" and tells the story of the shy intern Toomas. On his first day at work, he serves water at a conference, but when he tries to pour water for the intimidating boss, his jug is empty. Rushing back to the kitchen, he has to discover that the water tap has stopped working. He turns to an internet tutorial video for help on how to produce clean water by himself. Instructed by the "Crazy Croatian Hacker" he constructs his own filtering machine but ...
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I Breathe so I Dance

Orginal tiltle (in Estonian): "Hingan, seega tantsin"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kamilla Selina Lepik

A 16 years old talented dancer works hard to be a motivational teacher to her students.

Triin is a 16 years old girl who has been dancing for almost her whole life. For the last few years she has been teaching it in a reputed dance stu- dio in the heart of Tallinn. Her everyday struggles between sharing time at school and at a dance studio. She spends all of her free time on dancing and works hard to improve herself, inspire others and to tell stories with her body language.
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Land of Soul

Original title: Hingemaa

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne, Erik Norkroos

The oldest, almost century-old Estonian church in America is about to fall apart.

In a remote countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. At the end of this alley there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard that has probably a dozen graves next to it. This building with a broken roof and a leaning tower is the first church in America built by Estonians. It was built a hundred years ago and is desperately in need of repair. In Peedu, Tartumaa County, Tõnis Mägi receives an unexpected phone call. Jaan Karukäpp is calling from Chicago. He with other local Estonians is ...
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Last Class at Kasari

Original title: Viimane lend

2016 | Documentary | Director: Liis Lepik

A story of a countryside school in Estonia that will be shut down.

Kristo is a first grade student in Kasari School at Estonian countryside. During the school week he lives in the dormitory with his brother and two sisters. Warm relationships have developed between the children and the teachers but by the spring their school will be closed forever.
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Living Together a la Sri Lanka

Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

2016 | Documentary | Director: Mati Kark

The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

In 2016 it was seven years since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Some people don't even remember who the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were and for what they were fighting. At the same time, we are witnessing the growth of extremism in Europe as well as the military conflict in Ukraine. It seems that the history of Sri Lanka civil war serves as the best example how easily increasing jingoism can lead us to aggressive conflicts. But what makes people hate? Where is the formula of integration and peaceful co-existence? The authors of the documentary ...
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Loodusfilosoofiline Tartu

2016 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Jaan-Jürgen Klaus