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Bigger Than Sports

Original title: Suurem kui sport

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

Uncompromising "Crazy Coach" Arvi Aavik is creating the Estonian women's wrestling team out of a few capable girls.

Former Olympic athlete and female wrestler Epp Mäe's coach Arvi Aavik starts forming the first Estonian female national team where the athletes and coaches are working according to his training plan. Uncompromised and passionate Aavik, once called "A Crazy Coach", does not stop there - he wants to create something bigger than sports. He wants to erase the line between the coach and the athlete, trying to create a human touch.
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Little Resistance

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ruta Pakalne

Students of Ruila school are given the opportunity to be creative in-within school system which they still try to resist.

Movement classes are part of Ruila Põhikool curriculum, with a goal to develop body awareness and togetherness that is explored by the students. The focus of the film is to open up the necessity of having movement classes in daily life for kids. In this case kids that are given the approach that is quite alternative and gives them freedom, but they are still part of an alternative system that they try to join or not. Even if it is good for them, there is still someone who does not want to be subordinated to the practise.
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House of a Dream

Original title: Ühe unistuse maja

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

For most people ballet is dancing. For ballet dancers this is life!

Tallinn Ballet School has been the starting point of the dancers' careers since 1946. This film puts together a joint portrait describing a dancer's life in the eyes of different generations. The young students who have only just begun their studies and the graduates preparing for their final exams are all observed by former ballet stars who today determine the fates of people in the house where they also once started their journey. Whose dream will prevail and whose will die?
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Ballet Master

Original title: Balletmeister

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ruti Murusalu

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
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The King of Juice

Original title (in Estonian): "Mahlakuningas"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Keiti Väliste

An history tv program, portray of a juice manufacturer Dimitri Matiesen who was born in 1908 and revolutionized the juice industry both in Estonia and later in Sweden.

Dimitri Matiesen was one of the executives of a wine and juice factory which operated in the heart of Tallinn in 1920-1940. Dimitri Matiesen lived in Sweden from 1945 until 2009 when he passed away. Not many have heard the story of Dimitri Matiesen although he changed both the Estonian and Swedish juice industry greatly.
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The Art of Life

Original title in Estonian: "Elukunst"

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Tiina Haak, Annamari Kenk

The TV show of media students Tiina Haak and Annamari Kenk tells a story about three young men, whose passion for art has helped them to become successful.

How to come out from the slump of life and fulfill your dreams? This question is answered by three young men who make their everyday money with art and are now happier than ever.
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Between Two Fires

Original title: Kahe tule vahel

2011 | Documentary | Director: Martin Korjus

Documentary about the dreams of a father and his sons in the world of formula and kart racing as well as about the fulfilment of the dream through hard work, success and loneliness.

The shared dream of a former racer Aivar Korjus and his son Kevin is to reach behind the wheel of Formula 1. Aivar had dedicated his life to his son. Now that Kevin is grown up and reached professional sports world their lives have been drifting apart. Aivar's younger son, 11-year-old Kaspar, dreams about achieving even higher results than his older brother. Aivar continues the path of his dreams. His dream is to fulfill dreams.
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Forbidden fruit

Original title: Keelatud vili

2011 | Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

Two enthusiastic Estonians try to become grape farmers while adjusting the grape plants to the local Northern climate and developing the vineyard culture.

Jaak has the feeling of having been born in a wrong place. He would have wanted to become a wine estate owner somewhere in the middle of vineyards in South Italy. Instead of moving to Italy, Jaak has decided to defy Northern weather and to establish a vineyard on the slopes right next to his farm in Valga county. It may sound unbelievable but he has harvested his first crop. Liia lives not far from Jaak - she comes from Seto region, Estonia, and her passion towards grapes has inspired her to collect more than two hundred varieties of grapes ...
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Old fish

Original title: Vanad kalad

2010 | Documentary | Director: Triinu Ojalo, Katrin Maimik
No Finish Line

Original title: Ultra Vennikased

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kullar Viimne