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Mausoleum

Original title: Mausoleum

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

Grotesque and tragicomical story about the Soviet pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who eviscerated Lenin's dead body in 1924 and performed its initial enbalming. Since then, Abrikosov's and his assistant Sasha's lives have been related to taking care of Lenin's body. It is the year 1936, the era of Stalin's night-time repressions. No one can sleep, there are arrestments and executions. No one is protected from the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), especially the élite of USSR. And then, right before the 1st of May, a fly gets into the Lenin's sarcophagus. Before the visit of the great leader Stalin, Abrikosov ...
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Mercato

Original title: Turu majandus

2016 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Documentary film “Mercato" takes the viewer into one of the world’s poorest counties, Ethiopia. In the largest open air market in Africa, we follow the most ordinary working day of 10 year old shoe shine boys, wood-carrying ladies, an arrogant messenger and a well educated tourist guide.

Abebe and Ashenafi are ordinary 10-year old boys, whose parents sent them to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to work as shoe shine boys so the family would not starve. Abtu is an orphan teenager and works as a talalaki or a messenger, but work is the least on his mind. Bertukan is a mother of three. In order to survive, she carries heavier loads of wood than she herself weighs. Mulugeta is an educated guide who, thanks to his language skills, has an higher ranking in local society. All these Ethiopians are brought together in the Africa's largest market ...
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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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On the other side

Original title (in Estonian): "Üle müüri"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Eret Kuusk

The short movie by Eret Kuust tells a story of a couple looking for their lost dog and through that they test their relationship and honesty for each other.

A man and a woman go into the woods to find their missing dog. While looking for him, the woman finds the dog – dead. In their humanly weakness they are both afraid to face the painful truth. Do you tell the truth or stay silent forever?
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Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
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Reading between the lines

Original title (in Estonian): "Ridade vahelt lugedes"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Nadja Girich

Adaptation of original letters by Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and estonian poetess Maria Karamzina.

An actress, suffering from midlife crisis, gets a role in a theatre performance alongside a famous actor, performing the touching story of friendship between world-known Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and Russian emigrant poet from Estonia Maria Karamsina. While performing the play, the actors’ sympathy surpasses the theatre stage, growing into something bigger in real life.
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Sanctuarium

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Vyacheslav Bihun's documentary about a sacred place called Sanctuarium.

There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. It is a temporal refuge where you can gain immunity from modern world chaos. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place and its Founder in Tallinn’s Old Town, known as Ukrainian Cultural Center.
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Short and fiction

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sintija Andersone

Couple fools younger girls to re-fresh their relationship.

Film about a twisted couple who has created a peculiar way how to keep their relationship new. The husband seduces younger girls and brings them home for a romantic evening that ends with sex. Next morning the wife gets to lecture and humiliate the young girl.
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Siberi võmm

2016 | TV Serial, Kanal 2 Serial | Director: Gerda Kordemets
Silence

Original title (in Estonian): "Vaikus"

2016 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Loore Jaanson

Losing voice brings chaos to smooth-talking and charming Toomas’ life as he is forced to change his ways in order to get it back.

A story of an arrogant charming man who is used to getting his way in every aspect of his life. He has everything figured out until one day his voice get’s taken away. This affects every aspect of his life and by the end of the day he is left with nothing.
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