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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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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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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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May in Eden

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Emily Bruus

"may in eden" is a visually ambitious, slightly surreal, fictional short film by Sofiya Babiy and Emily Bruus. The protagonist Sophie dies and in the afterlife re-experiences turning points of her life.

In the rooms of the underworld I will always find a trace of you. Attempting to flee war, Sophie is fatally shot and about to die. On the doorstep of death she re-experiences key moments of her life. Now as a distant observer, Sophie sees herself and her mother more clearly than ever. There is much that was left unsaid and Sophie has to find the words before time runs out.
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Mo Mamma

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Eeva Mägi

„Mamma, see how I dance! Mother, see me slitting my throat!“ This is a drama full of feminine absurd, where mother and daughter drown in a passionate and endless desire to understand each other.

Mother (Karin) and daughter (Mari) are facing the demise of Mamma, Karin's mother and Mari's grandmother. They both release their pain on each other, but in unconditional love, everything is allowed. On the backdrop of mother and daughter seeking closeness and mutual understanding, there are bits of archive footage of Mamma, showing her peaceful healthy everyday life. The film is a bittersweet homage to Mamma, full of feminine absurd.
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Poop, Spring and the Others: The Mystery of Missing Socks

Original title: Kadunud sokid

2023 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Oskar Lehemaa

Dad has lost his socks again!

Little Pille goes to find her father’s missing socks under the bed, to a fantastical world of forgotten things. There she finds that dad’s socks have laid an egg! Now Pille must protect the socks from danger until the tiny egg can hatch.
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Sour Milk

Original title in Estonian: Emapiim

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Vera Pirogova

The film is about the relationship of a mother and son after they have reunited after 10 years.

Sandra lives alone in a small village in the middle of nowhere in Estonia. One day she gets an unexpected call from her son Ivar who left her years ago. The two of them get an opportunity to reconnect but Ivar seems to be the same person he was 10 years ago. He keeps promising a new life to Sandra, as he is on a mission to get part time custody of his son she didn’t know about. And just as she starts trusting him, he lets her down confirming her doubts about him, and she ends up asking him to ...
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What Would You Take?

Original title: Mille Sina võtaksid?

2023 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone.

Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone. Stories of twelve people from Ukraine who suddenly had to leave their home, taking only the bare essentials and a cherished belonging that speaks to their life.
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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
Lydia

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hermes Brambat, Tarvo Mölder

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula.

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula. She has inspired the kids to love music for over five decades. However, her life's work is the Tallinn Boys' Choir. Besides vocal training, she has also raised generations of boys to be a gentleman. Thanks to her, many Estonian men are much better men. It's unbelievable that Lydia is in her seventies. She is extremely vital and full of energy. It is no problem for her even to have a football match with the boys. After all, age is nothing but a number, and she proves ...
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