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Flying Bird

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sarvin Sefatyar

Searching for Ilmar Hellamaa, an Estonian folk musician, wood craftsman and folk instrument kannel maker. After the first interview he disappeared.

Ilmar Hellamaa (street musician) is the main subject of the documentary but the documentary is not just about him. It’s also opening a way through for people like him who are forgotten in the modern society and they are the representation of our root and culture. The Purpose is to hear his words through feeling his music and to empathise with him. Then hear stories from the people who had noticed him in years whether they are locals or immigrants.
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Four Stones

Original title: Neli kivi

2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Francesco Rosso

I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and his fellas to cope with their miseries. A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and ...
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Citizen Frank

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ernesto Redondo Vergara

The story and wanderings of a street musician that has found a place in the Olympus of happiness.

Vladimir Frank is a street musician. Every day, he performs for hundreds of tourists in front of the Estonian parliament in the city of Tallinn. By his unique style of singing, he interprets the story of his life: A complete puzzle that has put together during the history of the country in the last decades.
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Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
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The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

The Manslayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear ...
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Big City Beat

Original title: Suurlinna biit

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli

A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.

Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.
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Folk you!

Original title: Folk juu!

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Andres Keil

Colourful characters and moments from the 20th Viljandi Folk Music Festival.

Twenty years ago a bunch of folk musicians met in Viljandi and this meeting led to the first folk music festival in Viljandi. Today when the festival celebrates its 20th anniversary there are young people in their early twenties, wearing some instrument and having music in their hearts.They have a different world view and their values are valuable.Jaak Johanson, the leading figure of Estonian folk music, walks and mingles with them. Folk is the new punk.
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Singing Nadezhda

Original title: Laulev Nadežda

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.

The documentary tells the story about Nadezhda who has moved to Estonia from Russia; for her, the most important people are her loving husband and nine children. Both Nadezhda and Rustam, the father of her children, are deeply religious and think God is present in everything and everybody. Her songs are extremely heartfelt and full of love towards God; she sings about her children and Estonia, love and God in the tunnel of Viru Centre and earns extra money.
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Detache

2009 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Maša Drndić
The Tunnel

Original title in Estonian: Tunnel

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Margit Korbe

A boy and a girl walk in the early morning hours in an underground railway station, tired of each other and of themselves. Time stops to let them decide where and how they wish to go.
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