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In the Morning

Original title in Estonian: Hommikul

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

Poet and director Eik Erik Sikk’s short fiction film tells a grotesque story about our fear of living aimlessly.

In the middle of the sterile silence of an early morning, advertisement company employee Juhan struggles to spend the last two hours of his life purposefully, trying to find that something which he really wants to do. Unfortunately, the waking world does everything to mislead him from this path. To his surprise, instead of enjoying life or discovering eternal truths, he finds himself writing slogans for a life insurance and quarreling with his techno music enthusiast neighbor.
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Foster Mothers

Title in Estonian: Kasuemad

2021 | Documentary, Nature, Problem oriented | 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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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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Zoopark

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

The discomfort that people feel when looking monkeys in a cage is a warning sign.

Visiting the zoo is a feast day. The zoo is a place where the lion and the hare live happily side by side and the children train makes daring circles. Many don’t know that the zoo is open 365 days a year and just like the animals, does not rest the people who take care of them. Film opens the hidden side of legendary Tallinn Zoo and speaks of the animals and humanity.
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Landscape patterns

Original title: Maastiku mustrid

2014 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Riho Västrik

The diversity of Estonian landscapes is like a unique patchwork quilt. It is loved by local fauna and is a part of the Estonian genetic code.

The nature documentary filmmakers move through all four seasons and four basic landscape types in Estonia: the swamp, the forest, the coast and the wooded meadow. Everything that appears in front of the camera lens, including people, will become a part of the landscape pattern. People have habitated Estonian territory for more than 10 thousand years. Withdrawal of the ice cap created a habitat that has been adjusted to human needs during thousands of years. Lots of fields, pasture lands and hayfields have been created; the forests have been cut and planted. Unnecessary profit making has been avoided. The variety ...
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The lake and the city

Original title: Järv ja linn

2010 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Riho Västrik portrays Lake Ülemiste as a source of drinking water and a valuable natural environment.

Lake Ülemiste is located directly by Tallinn airport and is the mostly used natural lake in Estonia. Figuratively speaking, every resident of Tallinn is in direct contact with the lake through their tap - drinking water has been taken from the lake already since 14th century. The prohibited zone around the lake makes the territory a valuable natural environment for birds, animals and fish who have to compete with airplanes.
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Rõõmupäevade meistrid

1976 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Arnold Altmäe
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Valgu koolimetskond

1975 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Under the sky of people

Title in Estonian: nimeste taeva all

1974 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Reet Kasesalu

Debora Vaarandi, a beloved writer of Estonian SSR, and her poetry.

Filmmakers observe poetess Debora Vaarandi (1916–2007) in Pirita beach, on Toomemägi hill and in a cafe in Tartu, having a conversation with writers, behind her writing desk, knitting, talking to fishermen and visiting her birthplace in Saaremaa island. Voiceover by actress Kersti Kreismann who reads Vaarandi's poetry. Among other people seen in the film there are Aira Kaal, Ingrid Rüütel, Ralf Parve, Paul Kuusberg, Jaan Eilart, Vive Tolli, Lembit Remmelgas and Endel Nirk.
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