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Roots unearthed

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

In search of belonging, a disconnected filmmaker confronts his profound restlessness by embarking on a journey to his ancestral homeland, where he must reconcile his present reality with the depths of his past, discovering along the way the transformaRve power of connecRon and self- understanding.

A disconnected filmmaker starts believing that the cause of his profound restlessness is the call of his homeland, where he is a stranger by birth. He embarks on a profound journey back to his roots, seeking to reconcile his present reality with the depths of his ancestral past. Guided by an inner longing, he traverses rugged landscapes and encounters diverse individuals, each with their own stories of history and tradition. Through introspection and connection, he discovers the profound importance of belonging in one's life. Standing on the soil of his ancestors, he realizes that true belonging is found in the ...
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Paradise

Original title: Paradiis

2021 | Documentary | Director: Andres Keil

Syrian girl tries to adapt in an Estonian suburb.

Shahad is a 5th grader of Tartu Descartes School. She is 12. Film looks into her everyday life that is not a regular everyday. Her family escaped six years ago from Syrian war. Four years ago they managed to arrive here, their new home. How are they today?
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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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From wave and stone

Original title in Russian: Из волны и камня

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Margarita Levina

The film tells the autobiographical story of an author who wanted to change her place of residence in the hope of changing herself and her life. But it turned out that the country does not change anything if the soul remains the same.

The documentary tells the story of an author who for a long time really wanted to move somewhere from her home city, St. Petersburg. One day, she finally moves to Tallinn. And only then she begins to understand how she loves her hometown and how she misses it.
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Soviet Friendsbook

Original title: Ankeet

2020 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.

The unifier of the common past of the perestroika generation is the school. Classmates who once lived in very similar conditions, played the same games and shared the most personal thoughts have been able to create very different and varied lives today. It is several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to look for her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook created in their youth with today's reality. The friendsbook is serving a written historical memory function, preserving the beautiful moments and big dreams that were written down during school ...
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Kodumaa karjed

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

Who's the man waving the flag?

Most powerful speeches and thoughts from demonstrations gathered into one essay to inspect – what troubles people and do they have a say?
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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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Life on Slippery Ice

Original title: Elu libedal jääl

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Brett Orloff

Who are the refugees living among us? How have they come here? How is it possible (if at all) for them to adopt to the life in Estonia?

Only 60 refugees have been issued a living permit in Estonia during the last 20 years. The film tells the story of two of them. Ananthan from Sri Lanka moved to Estonia in 2006, and has settled down nicely with his family. Maroof arrived from Pakistan in 2011, his family a year later, and they are still figuring out the life in a new culture with different traditions.
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé