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1944

Original title: 1944

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, often referred to as the Battle of the European SS. WWII.1944. The bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Men brought out of Siberian labour camps and now returning home. Today 70 years on, the makers of Estonia's biggest ever box-office success ...
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About film: Tõnu Virve

Original title (in Estonian): "Filmist: Tõnu Virve"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Rebeka Rummel

How did one of the best Estonian sci-fi films get made during the Soviet time? Was the censorship bearable? Film artist and director, Tõnu Virve has come to BFM Film pavilion to talk about the making of different films and working with well-known Estonian directors. What kind of partnership has brought Virve to one of the film composers, Sven Grünberg? How does Virve perceive the essence of a female director? During the interview, it becomes clear what lies behind the charismatic artist Tõnu Virve - it is an unmeasurable passion towards cinema.
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Anthill

Original title: Sipelgapesa

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

Vladimir Loginov´s “Anthill” is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.

Vladimir Loginov´s “Anthill” is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.
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Brothers

Original title (in Estonian): "Vennad"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karl Jakob Jürna

Patriots in the game of espionage chess between the West and East.

The Iron curtain has fallen on the continent and the West in clueless what is going on in Soviet Union. The western intelligence services have started training exiled patriots to become their eyes and ears in their occupied homelands. This is the story of Estonian men, who returned back home as spies.
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Christ Lives in Siberia

Original title: Kristus elab Siberis

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi

Director Arbo Tammiksaar together with his family moved to live in a Vissarions' village in Siberia for a year, in order to follow the daily life of the religious community.

The charismatic religious leader Vissarion lives in an isolated Siberian village and calls himself Christ who has reborn. A religious sect consisting of thousands of followers has gathered around him, including Dmitri the bellringer and his wife Sveta who moved to the community with her three children from Saint Petersburg a few years ago. Magomed, the biological father of the children, writes a complaint letter to the administration of the President of Russia and insists that his children should be given back to him. Director Arbo Tammiksaar with his family moved to the Vissarions' village for a year. He followed ...
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Day of Daisies

Original title: Karikakrapäev

2015 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

The only excuse to miss a training is the death of your mother-in- law.

75 years ago young enthusiast Helju Mikkel (later known as Memm) brought together a group of students who were interested in folk arts. They started to study and perform old Estonian folk songs and dances and thus founded one of the oldest performance groups in Estonia: University of Tartu Folk Dance Ensemble. With the rise of interest in folk arts, the group became extremely popular during Soviet times, and founds it way to television, Olympic games etc. All these years it carried on both despite and thanks to the authorities. In "Day of Daisies" Helju Mikkel and Henn Tiivel (leaders of the ...
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Diamondjaw

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Tormi Torop

In everyone of us there is a hero who can save the day ...
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Elephants don’t forget

Original title (in Estonian): "Elevandid ei unusta"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristel Muiste

“Elephants don’t forget” is a short documentary film about a young zoo-worker Erko who tis taking care of the elephants. Despite the challenges of working with big animals, Erko has a purpose to ensure the elephants the best life that is possible in that kind of an environment.
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Grey

Original title (in Estonian): "Hall"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Jürgen Volmer

Little boy walks along God`s path if he incures the danger to his family without his knowledge.

The forest is older than us. For a lot of different nation `s mythology is a Wolf king of the forest, who sees, hears and knows everything.  Little boy Mart lives beside the forest with his family, something awful is happened in family and touched all the family members. Mother tries to save the daughter by religional ritual but little Mart is too young to understand a God and he incur danger his family future. A Wolf always gets its share.
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Hi, Rasma!

Original title: Hei, Rasma!

2015 | Documentary | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-production documentary about the residents of the coastal villages of Northern Estonia, the ancient coastal law and folklore related to the Latvian steamboat Rasma. The documentary has optimistic and funny undertone while introducing specific episodes from cultural history.

Documentary portrays Estonians through one of the most ancient traditions of coastal villages – the coastal law. According to the legend, a Latvian steamboat Rasma collided with an underwater mine on the coast of Northern Estonia on July 5, 1941. The captain decided to direct the shop to the banks of Mohn island in order to save the passengers and a child, as well as the equipment of sewing factory evacuated from Riga, Husqvarna bicycles, grain and flour. Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-produced documentary is searching for the bikes and sewing machines that have come from the board of Rasma, but also the ...
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