Documentary Film

Madli Lääne-Metsalu is an Estonian film director, writer and editor. Her films have screened and won at various European Film Academy or Oscar-qualified festivals, like Uppsala Short Film Festival in Sweden (Best Children’s Film), Leeds International Film Festival in UK (ScreenDance Competition winner), Busan International Short Film Festival in Korea (Special Mention of the Jury ), In The Palace in Bulgaria (Best Experimental Film), etc. Madli's latest film DEAR PASSENGERS (2022) premiered at Palm Springs Short Film Festival and was awarded as the Best Short at EFTA - Estonian national film industry awards. Madli holds a MFA in Film and Media Production from the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2017). She graduated as a film editor from International Film School in Cologne, Germany (2007), participated in Documentary Directing Summer School at International School of Film and TV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba and was selected as a participant to Student Film Camp & Doc Workshop Interaction in Serbia. She has extensive experience shooting abroad (Liberia, Nigeria, Ukraine, Faroe Islands, China, Hawaii, Kazakhstan). Madli is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Midpoint Shorts and European Short Pitch (Mastering-In-Kind Award). Currently she is working as a lecturer in editing and audiovisual storytelling at Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Estonia.

General Estonia requirements for this degree level. The institution must confirm the final programme checklist.

• A completed qualification appropriate for Master's Degree.
• Academic transcripts and any programme-specific assessment requested by the institution.
• Final requirements must be confirmed for the applicant's education system and intake.

The official programme record lists English. It does not publish a programme-specific minimum language-test score, so no score is invented here.

Preparation checklist; final document rules and certified translations are confirmed during application review.

This programme is recorded as accredited in the central catalogue.