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Meelte vallas

2022 | Other categories | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
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The Diary of Vaino Vahing

Original title: Vaino Vahingu päevaraamat

2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rainer Sarnet

When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.

In 1968–1984, Vaino Vahing kept a diary about real events and persons in his own subjective interpretation. It reflects cultural life of Tartu, love affairs, bohemian parties and intellectual quests of the time. Vahing was interested in borderline situations, crossing the borders. He drew no clear line between art and life. Vahing provoked people, tried to make them to lose their masks, their self control. He called this provoking the Spiel, or play. We are looking at a creator who has made disharmony his source of inspiration, who experiences “the greatest torment in love”. One who fears to lose himself ...
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Undergods

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Chino Moya

Debut film of Chino Moya is a collection of darkly humorous, surrealist tales about ill-fated characters and their tragic misadventures.

Debut film of Chino Moya is a collection of darkly humorous, surrealist tales about ill-fated characters and their tragic misadventures.
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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Inquest of Pilot Pirx

Original title: Navigaator Pirx

1978 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Marek Piestrak

The feature film is an Estonian-Polish co-production directed by Marek Piestrak and based on the story "The Investigation" by science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. The suspense film tells the story of a space flight with robots among the crew, in order to find out whether robots can replace human beings during space flights.

Developing androids has theoretically reached the point where these could be mass-produced. It must be tested first whether androids can be preferred to human beings since robots are free from human weaknesses. In order to prove this, navigator Pirx must complete a space flight together with a crew where there are robots among human beings, in order to get the neutral evaluation of everyone's abilities. However, It turns out during the flight that even robots don't want to become mass-produced items and the moment the perfect android goes against its creator, human beings will have nothing else to rely on ...
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In the Footsteps of "Book of Ice"

Title in Estonian: "Jäise raamatu" jälgedes

1975 | Documentary | Director: Irene Lään

Documentary based on a novel by Juhan Smuul.

In late 1950s, writer Juhan Smuul undertook a journey to Antarctic with the Soviet expedition team and dedicated his novel "Book of Ice" to these heroes of the so-called "white land". The film crew met the participants of the expeditions with whom they recalled both the journey to Antarctic and their travel companion Juhan Smuul. The recollections are accompanied by the excerpts from "Book of Ice". Film chronicles and photographs of that era have been used in the documentary, as well as the material filmed by Mati Kask and Andres Sööt during the expedition.
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Meelte vallas

The Diary of Vaino Vahing

Undergods

Dearest Sister

Inquest of Pilot Pirx

In the Footsteps of "Book of Ice"