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Floor No 9

Original title in Estonian: IX korrus

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Ruumet

The short fiction film is about loneliness and ruthless longing for freedom.

Lili is getting ready for a romantic getaway with her new lover, meanwhile the father who was supposed to take care of their 4-year old son with a hearing impairment has an unexpected work trip and brings Paul back. Lili is now left with two polar opposite scenarios - weekend with her charming lover or staying home with needy and annoying Paul.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Gems of Asylum

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vivian Ruumet

Short documentary about mentally ill clients in Vääna-Viti asylum.

Short documentary that is disproving assumptions about mental institutions and patients by observing the life and behaviors of two mentally ill clients in Vääna-Viti asylum.
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Zero Point

Original title: Nullpunkt

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Debut feature film directed by Mihkel Ulk, telling about the burning issues of today's youth: school bullying and related low self-esteem, adaptation difficulties and search for appreciation.

Johannes is a sensitive young man with restless disposition who is accepted by an elite school in Tallinn. However, things won't get better for him as one could expect - he becomes the target of his classmates' mental terror. Johannes must also cope with his mother's progressive mental disease. When the three main pyramids of his life - home, friends and school - start to collapse, Johannes will reach the zero point. He realizes that in order to move on he has to start from himself - he works out a plan who to become accepted and gain popularity. Despite ...
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Rat King

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Petri Kotwica

An Estonian-Finnish co-production is an adventure film for youth directed by Petri Kotwica, telling about the dangerous consequences of video game addiction.

With the help of his long-time virtual friend Niki, 18-year-old Juri discovers a website where a game begins. The purpose of the seemingly innocent game is to fulfill various missions in real life, but it will take the boys to the whirl of dangerous events. The borders between the virtual and real world disappear. The question is whether this is a game after all?
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For a Better Life

Original title: Parema elu nimel

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Sildvee

Documentary by Märt Sildvee opens up the themes of antidepressants and depression as well as studies the myths related to the disease and its treatment.

Admitting depression as an illness is quite a new phenomenon in our country. Causes of depression can be either social, psychological or biological - however, depression is often caused by the concurrence of all of them. Five persons open-mindedly tell about their illness, how they went to a doctor and what happened next. The documentary studies causes of social stress as well as living under the influence of medications. Is it really so that antidepressants, introduced as lifestyle medications, lead us out from crises, recover our ability to work, give us back energy and provide us satisfactory daily life?
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Wounds of Afghanistan

Original title: Afganistani armid

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Two veterans of Afghanistan War return to the military territories where they once fought. When they were twenty years old, they were sent to fight abroad where it was impossible to exit as a winner.

„Wounds of Afghanistan“ is a film about Estonian men currently in their forties whose lives were changed forever during the period of 1979-1989 when Estonians were forced to fight with the Soviet army in Afghanistan. When twenty-year old, they were sent by the Soviet authorities to the Afghan War where no-one had ever left as a winner. This was a a war for foreign country and unknown purposes. Every man tried to escape – few succeeded. The heroes of the film are the artist Aivar Simson – Simson from Seaküla - and Leino Juhkam. The first one lost his nerves in ...
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Fear

Original title: Hirm

2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anri Rulkov

The last work by film director Anri Rulkov, a short film with the elements of horror. The psychological drama studies the deepest subliminal layers of the human past.

Odd characters and strange atmosphere create dark background to events that take place in a remote medical institution where Helen travels to identify her unexpectedly passed away mother. Helen has not seen her mother for the last twenty years. In an appalling environment, the young woman discovers her own brother among Dr. Schulze's patients. Helen vaguely remembers the existence of her brother through disturbing childhood dreams. The fear from the past as well as ignorance make Helen an easy pray for the chief doctor who will practise strange treatment methods on the young woman. Helen has to make a choice ...
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The Phenomenon of Raul Rajangu

The original title "Raul Rajangu fenomen"

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liina Kulles