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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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Taevakerad

2016 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Liina Siib
The Days That Confused

Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

The 27-year- old protagonist Allar moves from one provincial party to another, meeting colorful characters and finding himself in evermore confusing circumstances. The amounting tension and absurdity of surrounding events lead Allar to give serious thought to his life. What follows is a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia to finally discover meaning in oneself.
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The Eyeless Hunter. A Khanty Story

Original title: Silmadeta jahimees. Handi lugu

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn

A fairy tale about Khanty man and his wife.

A Khanty man went hunting but did not bring home any catch. A wife stealthily followed her husband into the forest. The hunter lay down, took his eyes out and said, “Semlek re-rem-rem”. The wife seized the husband’s eyes. The next day an elk was trotting by the camp. The hunter killed the elk. Later the hunter entered the conical tent where the wife secretly ate the meat. The wife thought that her brother-in-law had come and covered her face as it was the Khanty custom to avoid husband’s male relatives seeing the wife’s face. The wife complained that her ...
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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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They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music

Original title: Räägitakse, et tomatid armastavad rokkmuusikat

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature.

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature. Together with autumn rains arrives Aleksander’s daughter Marju, who hopes to inherit the old man’s house, tear it down and put up a guesthouse on the lot instead.
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Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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Alone Together

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

Mediastudents' Worapoj In-lao and Kevin Molloy art-documentary about relationship between human and things in experimental cinema.

Alone Together is the experimental documentary which intended to display the relationship between people and place in Adele rehabilitation center by means of purely capturing the interior shots of the center where staff, therapist and patients were doing their job. Apart from daily basis shots of interior building, the film also shows the time Adeli staff were about to move away to the new center.
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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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