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Original title (in Russian): Rodnye

2016 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Manski

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych’s flight to Russia. But below the main narrative ...
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Family Lies

Original title: Perekonnavaled

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

“Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald (Roman Baskin), who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei (Tambet Tuisk) must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. “Family ...
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Holy Motors - Sleeprydr

2016 | Students film, Music video | Director: Sameli Muurimäki

Music video directed by media student Sameli Muurimägi talks about reality and memories that are combined in a dreamlike car ride.

Dreamlike journey where young woman’s past starts to follow her.The protagonist is chased by pale faced hitchhiker men, played by other band member, who impersonate death and woman conscious, until they reach her and disappear to darkness.
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Homecoming

Original title (in Estonian): "Kodu"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Loore-Emilie Raav

A documentary by the student Loore Emilie Raav is about the animal protector Kadri Taperson living in Hiiumaa and her everyday work and life on the island regarding the animal protection. At the same time the leading character Kadri has an animal shelter in her personal home.

Kadri Taperson who is living in Hiiumaa is involved in animal protection on the island, at the same time keeping an animal shelter in her personal home. Kadri’s days are tight because there’s incredibly much work on a little island of Hiiumaa – she needs to rush from one case to another. Each moment the phone may ring because something has happened again.
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Joke of the Day

Original title (in Estonian): "Päeva parim nali"

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

Film is about the relationship between father and son who are both stand up comedians.

"Joke of the day" is a comical story about Rein and Ants Päev's relationship. They also happen to be doing the same profession, atleast that's what the father thinks. What happens if father Rein goes to ask his son Ants for a favor to perform on his show? Film shows comical people not so comical life.
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Kul Tur

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Alexander Marcus Müller

A swedish busdriver talks about his job as a bus driver, driving people to Tallinn so they can buy cheaper alcohol.

The Documentary „Kul-Tur“ takes place in the harbour near the center of Tallinn. Jürgen Holmgren, the main character, is bus driver and works for a Swedish bus company. Beginning in Stockholm, Jürgen picks up his passengers along the way to Tallinn. After a very short city sightseeing tour, they come back to the harbour to enter the „alcoholic adventure“. During the interview with Jürgen, he explains the motivations of his passengers and clients as well as his personal risks to stay competitive.
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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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Our Home

Original title (in Finnish): "Meite Kodo"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Daniel Picón, Meelika Lehola

The film follows three female characters from the tiny island of Kihnu with only 346 inhabitants, struggling not to lose their faith in their homeland, which is dying out.

Kihnu is a well-known island among Estonians, partly for its odd yet very interesting traditions, the inhabitants’ sense of strong community, their own dialect which is called Kihnu Keel among other things. A problem that many people are probably not aware of is that Kihnu is facing a situation of very fast decreasing population, which can be a factor of many things like lack of job opportunities or centralization to the bigger cities. This story concentrates on the lives of three women of 3 different generations all affected by the present problem but who still dream of staying in Kihnu. ...
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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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