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Pretenders

Original title: Teesklejad

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Vallo Toomla

There is nothing so scary as your own reflection.

Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.
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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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The Gate

Original title in Estonian: "Värav"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Adelaida Pardo

As odd and mysterious characters enter the Gate, they pull the audience into a vacuum of altered perceptions through the building that slowly reveals itself. It is a journey into an intriguing geography, where space and those who inhabit it are inseparable. Are we visitors? Or have we always been here?
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The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
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Three Clay Pots. A Komi Story

Original title: Kolm savipotti

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.
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Tiit Pääsuke ja tembitud värvid

2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Urbla
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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Work with the pain

Original title in Estonian: Tööta valuga

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Epp Kubu

Film portrays midwives during a new years night.

Film portrays midwives during a new years night.
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Atop a mountain

Original title (in Estonian): "Mäel"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Ulrike Brett Uukkivi

„Atop a mountain“ is an adaption from Elviira Mihhaolovna’s novel „Prügimäel“ Film is about middle-aged woman named Maria who has reached a dead end in her life, and looks for an exit.

On a early spring night, Maria understands that she is breaking out from her cold-hearted cocoon. Initially, Maria sees only hope in vodka. But this time there comes another lonely sould, Georgi, with whom she stoles her last vodka and makes a great step towards a better life. Somehow, Maria is confronted with a world, where money is not the game and your masks are torn away. In this new world Maria finds a way to turn everything around. Elderly neighbourghs find out that Maria and her car have gone missing. And they think there is a more criminal meaning this.
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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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