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The Fool

Original title in Estonian: Narr

2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Katariina Škurinski

Katariina Škurinski's short film opens up the world of a young person whose life is failing, showing that things might not be so off track if people were willing to change. The film keeps the viewer gripped the entire time and never reveals for a second whether the protagonist will change or not.

The unsuccessful salesman Norman tries to win back the heart of his former lover Amelia. When his date plan fails, he seeks comfort in a bar with his friend Olaf, but unexpectedly, Amelia arrives there. The encounter escalates into an argument during which Amelia speaks about warnings she heard from a fortune teller regarding Norman's future. In light of this information, Norman rushes to the fortune teller Matilda, who tells him the harsh truth about his life choices. Struck by what he hears, Norman then gets into a fight with his only friend Olaf. Wandering around town, Norman takes a ...
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Robbery That Was Robbed

Original title in Estonian: Röövitud rööv

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Mark Överus

The plot of the film initiated by Mark Överus, Karmen Mai Karus, Evelin Kivi and Anett Kreinin highlights the pain points of society - greed for money, exploitation, but also parental care and selfless behavior.

A modern crime thriller, the main characters of which are Andrus, a single father who works as a security chief; his seriously ill and dying daughter Annabel; a young criminal with international reach Cäthlyn; and police investigator Benno. In the course of the story, a real game of manipulation unfolds, in which the criminals of the underworld lure a vulnerable single father into a bad path, but in return promise to cover his daughter's medical expenses. Desperate Andrus shows what fathers are capable of on behalf of their children.
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Wishes from the well

Original title in Estonian: Soovid kaevu põhjast

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Alesja Suzdaltseva

A short film about a man caught in the cogs of life.

A short film about a down and out man who needs to find money for medicine before the apothecary closes. As begging and lies fail, his last resort becomes the bottom of a wishing well. Soon after a curious boy comes up to the well and the man will try to grant his wishes for coins.
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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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The Drought

Original title in Estonian: Põud

2021 | Students film, Animation | Director: Luisa Susanna Kütson

IKUMUMU student Luisa Susanna Kütson’s ani- mation is about reaching for happiness.

Sometimes it may be difficult to find happi- ness that might hide nearby. In that case it is good idea to trust someone who has already found theirs.
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt

Original title: Üht kaotust igavesti kandsin

2020 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.

Hille has a close relationship with her drug addict son. She sends him money every other week. After a fight they have over the phone, Lauri disappears mysteriously. His last known location is Bogotá, Colombia. At Hille's request, Lauri's sister, Eeva, reluctantly embarks on a journey and soon finds herself in the surreal and merciless underbelly of Bogotá. She contacts her only Colombian acquaintance, Carlos, who also lost his brother in the past, and they film their search for answers for a loss they both share.
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Kevin, No!

Original title: Kevin, ei!

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leslie Laasner

Smart life addicts on an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island.

A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organise n adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favourite activity - surfing on the phone. However, the smart life addicts who have grown under the light of their screens for their whole life, are surprised to discover that there is a place in the world with no coverage of WiFi. Crushing boredom sets in quickly and hope fades along with cell phone batteries: is there anything at all to be done in such a desolate place? Soon the discover some old-timer on the island who has a tempting ...
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The Last Ones

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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Chasing Unicorns

Original title: Ükssarvik

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.

Based on true stories, this is comedy-drama about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world. Õie, an accountant from a small town accidentally stumbles into the tech scene of her home-country Estonia — a place where startups are a “national sport” and almost everyone has one. She is joined by a serial failure Tõnu, who is always trying one more time. Fast-paced and fun movie, based on true stories of startup founders, gives an authentic picture of the highs and lows of the crazy tech world, from Estonia to Silicon Valley — and back.
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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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