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Bad Ass Merike

Original title: Vinge mutt

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Keil

She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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Hilda Ha Off the Grid

Original title: Hilda Ha. Võrgust väljas

2024 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

A woman. A mother. A ceramic artist. A determined supporter of the off-grid lifestyle. Yet, instead of waving posters on Friday for Future, this German has chosen to habitatae a self-bult 16-square-meter cabin on a hill in the Southern Estonian countryside with no electricity, no central heating or running water. Why has she chosen this way of life ?

The film portrays one year in the life of Hilda Ha, a wild and free German woman. She is not one to stand with a big poster at a Friday For Future. Instead, she saves the planet in a quiet way, living off-grid with her one and a half year old child in Southern Estonia in a self-built tiny house with no water or electricity. Although it seems extreme, it's the most natural way of living for Hilda Ha, a conscious choice which gives her certain financial freedom – when there’s no utility bills or bank loans there is also ...
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Home

Original title in Estonian: Kodu

2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Rasmus Rammo

An absurd comedy, aiming to draw attention to the current societal issues and topics such as: gambling addiction, low teacher salaries, interethnic and ideological conflicts, the war in Ukraine, and the growing fear of conflict escalation, as well as the situation in nursing homes and high prices.

In the cramped apartment of her great-aunt, Lydia, a young teacher struggling with financial difficulties, must cope with diverse tenants and escape the clutches of mobsters who have invaded her home, all to pay the fees for her aunt's nursing home.
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My Duty

Original title: Minu kohus

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liis Lindmaa

Documentary about an Estonian woman with Russian heritage, who joins the Estonian Women’s Voluntary Defense League to become a soldier.

Documentary about an Estonian woman with Russian heritage, who joins the Estonian Women’s Voluntary Defense League to become a soldier. She feels the responsibility to be ready to defend Estonia from the country her father loved unconditionally. For a year she is training and searching for her place, being in constant self development. Moving more and more out of her comfort zone, will the duty last?
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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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The Omen

Original title: Oomen

2024 | Other categories | Director: Marko Lillemägi
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A Greyhound of a Girl

Original title (in German): Alles Gëtt Wonnerbar!

2023 | Animation, Cartoon, | Director: Enzo d'Alo
Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... Tis diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives. It composes an analogue gospel of a ...
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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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L is for Love

Original title: A nagu armastus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Spungin

When Indrek's wife says that she is not happy with the marriage and something needs to change, Indrek must find a way to save the marriage.

The author of the film, Indrek Spungin, has reached the port of love and peace, he is married and the father of several children, everything seems beautiful, but one day his wife tells him that if nothing changes, then love and marriage will soon be over. Indrek is confused. He takes his friend Taavi with the camera and goes to find out what love really is. He questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as love and marriage. The topic is broadened by three protagonists with a personal touch: Jarmo, who has just fallen in love ...
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