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The Story of Estonian Skateboarding

Original title: Eesti rula lugu

2024 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus, Ivar Murd

The story of Estoniaäs skateboarding scene spanning five decades, from the 1980s and tables made with vclay wheels in Võru to today's youth, for whom the whole world is open.

Skateboarding, with its all-encompassing lifestyle, personal expression, creativity, and rebellious spirit has grown into something more than just doing tricks in Estonia. Skaters repeat in unison, “Skateboarding has given me everything.” Skateboarding is their life. Skateboarding is freedom. This is the story of a scene spanning five decades in Estonia, from the boards made with clay wheels in Võru in the 1980s to today’s youth, for whom the whole world is open.
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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Foster Mothers

Title in Estonian: Kasuemad

2021 | Problem oriented, Documentary, Nature | Director: Meelis Muhu

The volunteers of the Wildlife Association rescue wild animals that have been involved in accidents as a result of human activities.

Wild animals are in trouble. In areas that have always been covered with forests, there are now new housing estates, highways and polygons. Because of human activity, more and more animals get into accidents. But the injured animals still have hope because volunteer foster mothers take care for them, heal them and let them go back to nature.
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The Tour of Dreams

Original title: Unistus Ameerika tuurist

2021 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema, Taavi Arus

When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.

This documentary is a film about bluegrass, gospel and god, in one of the most secular countries in the world. "Robirohi" is not a very well known band in Estonia. Most of their concerts are held in churches and congregations, their soulful music gets little plays on non-christian radio stations. Nearly all band members have felt enlightenment: "It is as if a warm wave of light passes through all your body". All members but one. The band would love to be famous one day – but is gospel the right path to take? They book their dream tour to America, ...
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Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova
Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Pretenders

Original title: Teesklejad

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Vallo Toomla

There is nothing so scary as your own reflection.

Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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EINASTO 11577

Original title: EINASTO 11577

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helle Karis

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto.

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto. The minor planet of our galaxy, bearing the number 11 577 and discovered on February 8, 1994 by Eric W. Elst, astronomer of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was named Einasto by the Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union. Einasto, together with other minor planets linked with Estonia, orbits around the Sun, taking 3.84 years or 1400 days to complete its path. The main goal of the film is to bring science closer to common people by showing the ...
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