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Afghanistan Project

Original title: Afganistani projekt

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.

The project of Afghan war has ended for Estonia; however, several civil missions in the field of education and training are still going on. The documentary follows the last days of three Estonian servicemen left in Afghan in Camp Bastion; the efforts of the people from Tallinn University to train the master's and doctoral students of information technology at Kabul University; the meeting between Pille Alaver, the Human Rights Adviser, and mistreated Afghan women in Kabul police station; and training midwives in the village of Dare Souf. The film forms a mosaic out of various fragments of the life in ...
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Mirror

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Vilnite

An old lady goes through all her ages remembering the beauty of each of them.

Every age we want to be something else. A child wishes to grow older, a young girl want to be woman sooner, a woman wants to be a girl again, but an old lady...so much she has lost. Mirror is about an old lady who sees in herself all these years, memories from them and the beauty that comes together with growing old.
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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Old lady and the sea

Original title (in Estonian): "Vanamutt ja meri"

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

It’s a short observational documentary about an old lady’s daytrip to Aega island.
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Out of the hole

Original title: August välja!

2013 | Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa

Leida Rammo, Estonian oldest performing actress, believes in miracles and passionately fights for the new building of Tallinn City Theatre.

"Does the geniuses have the right for their own theatre?" asks Leida Rammo (1924), the oldest performing theatre actress in Estonia. And she's got the answer as well: "Yes, they do!" Tallinn City Theatre has its own genius - the stage director Elmo Nüganen. However, he has no proper house for the theatre, nor a big stage and a theatre hall. It has to be pulled out from a hole, says the Grand Old Lady and prepares herself for conquering administrative agencies. The vigorous actress writes official letters, goes to meet the administratives of the city government, consults the editor-in-chief ...
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A Lady in Paris

Original title: Eestlanna Pariisis

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Drama directed by Ilmar Raag about two Estonian ladies in Paris - an elderly city woman and a plain woman coming from a small town who starts working for the elderly one. The human connection that arises from their relationship gives a new meaning to the lives of both women. Leading roles are played by the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau and Laine Mägi.

Anne lives alone in her small town apartment in Estonia. She accepts a job offer to work as a caretaker for an Estonian expatriate Frida in Paris. Modest small-town Anne finds out that Frida is rich, moody, and liberal-minded woman of the world who has spent almost all her life in Paris. Frida is against the fact that she is being taken care of. What's more - she dislikes Estonians and pretends that she won't understand Estonian language. It seems that the two women have nothing in common. However, they have probably been brought together in order something would change ...
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Afghanistan Project

Mirror

Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Old lady and the sea

Out of the hole

A Lady in Paris