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Sad Inheritance

Original title in Estonian: Kurb Pärand

2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Aranya Sen, Sergei Batrak

A theatre director and his father clash over portraying abuse in a rehearsal reflecting their conflicting approaches in directing actors and their real-life strained relationship.

Erik, a playwright and director, rehearses a scene of his upcoming production with his actors. In the rehearsal room, Erik's father, Igor, a veteran thespian, oversees the rehearsals. The actors playing the roles of Father and Son, stare at a painting by Joaquin Sorolla titled 'Sad Inheritance' and reflect in silence. The Son immediately confronts the Father. He accuses the Father of not being present for his show because of being around a slut - Anna. The Father responds with threatening ignorance, and the play is stopped.
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Your humble servant

Original title in Estonian: Sinu alandlik teener

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Marta Terrible

Follows Haide and Toomas, husband and wife in life and in art Piip and Tuut through the hard work of the creation of their new clown show in the Botanical Garden of Tallinn, showing the intensity and poetry behind their craft and focusing on their collaboration on stage and in life.

Haide and Toomas are two clowns who have been collaborating for 25 years. The documentary follows them through all the stages of the creation of their new show taking place in Tallinn's Botanical Garden, from their first visit to the location and the writing of the play to the rehearsals and its performance. The environment to which they have to adapt, consisting of an exotic room, creates a stark contrast with the winter surroundings outside. The underlying question of the documentary is: Why have these clowns stayed with Haide and Toomas for so long? Who needs clowns, and why?
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In your mind

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kelli Andermann

The documentary talks about two young women Kertu and Mariin, who want to make a music video based off Mariin’s song. They don’t have much experience with film-making, which makes the process more interesting, because they have to face some problems and humorous moments.

Long-time friends Kertu and Mariin, who do not have much experience with the camera or film-making, come up with the idea of making a music video. Mariin had already made the song that starts the idea ready. Shooting days of the video are carried out in two days, during which there are many obstacles, for example, camera lenses are not suitable and the girls are running out of ideas. Through humorous moments, we can see how the friends bring their spontaneous idea to life.
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Madleen

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Kasesalu

Film student Maria Kasesalu's short documentary follows acting student Madleen Maria Kirja's preparation for the course production "Sinilind" where she plays the role of Fairy.

Madleen Maria Kirja is a 2nd-year acting student of the Viljandi Academy of Culture, who is facing difficulties in cooperation with the director and preparing for her own role in the course production "Sinilind".
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Art of Righteous

Original title: Õiglased

2020 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

A movie about “extras” or actors in minor background roles in movies/series/ads. The protagonists are all locally recognised hobby actors, who have accumulated loads experience from shoots - now it’s time to make their own movie.

The protagonists of the film are “extras”, or the actors in minor background roles in film, TV and advertising. Folks who are always present if there’s yet another casting for a background part or mass scene. Work obligations or personal life are not to become obstacles to participating at a shoot! It is a sacred obligation of being there and being chosen. They make up a distinct “brotherhood”, having known each other and filmmakers for a while, almost being a part of this mysterious “movie crowd”. The central characters - Toomas, Andres, Jürjo, Taavo and Maarja - are all locally ...
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Eesti nafta

2020 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

A Mother and daughter, searching for an answer to what could be the fuel for life in a small country Estonia. One of them grows Nettle, the other one is a famous youtuber.

Margit has left her life, career and apartment in the big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow Nettle. She believes that there is a power in this plant, that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched Nettle and it’s qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an enterpreneur?Margit’s daughter Nele, a well known youtuber, will try to help out. So in ...
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country. He inexplicably morphs into a psychedelic cowboy during a hypnosis session and begins another journey in his subconscious. A humorous attempt on finding a path in a documentary that also addresses viewers spiritual and transcendental reality, and renders out a surreal metaphor from behind and beyond the image. Involving two separate, but intersecting stories, while mixing experimental documentary and fiction.
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Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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