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Feathers or Glamour

Original title: Suled või glamuur

2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

The apocalyptic tendencies of the first COVID wave in 2020 led hundreds of people living in urban settlements to start keeping chickens in their backyard. Following three different families in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, the documentary investigates how a chicken turned from egg-centric rural bird into a trendy urban pet. How does she feel in the City? Is chicken the new dog? Living beak to beak with humans has made chickens more self-aware, more individualistic and more human-like in every way. Weird accessories, bizarre glamorous events and uncommonly good living conditions now form a part of the urban chicken's everyday ...
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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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The Messangers

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sonya Aleksandrova

Film shows one day of the life of religious jewish family.

Film following one jewish family in their preparations for Shabbat.
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The Possibility of Life in the Country

Original title: Elu võimalikkusest maal

2023 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Telia | Director: Liis Lindmaa

A romantic comedy about a couple who decide to leave their safe life in the city behind and move to the countryside to fix up an inherited mansion.

A romantic comedy about a couple who decide to leave their safe life in the city behind and move to the countryside. The Karuaugu Manor, which at first seems like a blessing, turns out to have unexpected facets. How easy is it to turn their life around? How can they manage in the countryside? And how much can a relationship endure when faced with masks, a crumbling manor and strange villagers?
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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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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Grandma, meet Mary

Original title: Vanaema, saa tuttavaks

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaire Russ

The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80 birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

At the center of the short film we find an ordinary family struggling with generational differences about what it means to love and live a full life. The main character Virve (Tiina Mälberg), a middle-aged perfectionist, has gone to great lengths to make sure her mother’s (Ines Aru) jubilee would be a perfectly traditional family celebration. Her plans are interrupted by her niece Silvia (Grete Konksi) who arrives to the party with her same-sex partner Mary (Jaanika Arum). Grandma and grandpa are clueless and welcome Mary to the table because they remember her as a childhood friend of their granddaughter. The ...
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Life of Ivanna

Original title in Russian: Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ

2021 | Documentary | Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano

From the harsh, nomadic life on the tundra to an uncertain future with five children. Four years in the life of a strong and charismatic woman as vital, physical film art.

Ivanna, a 26-year-old mother of five children, is living in the Arctic region in northwest Siberia. She lives a traditional nomadic life, driving her herd of reindeer at the tundra as her family did for centuries. But due to the environmental side effects of climate change most of her reindeers are dying and she knows that she will soon be ruined and forced to make a dramatic decision. Her husband, Gena, has already left the family. He moved to the city, hoping to find a job as an oil worker in the Russian oil fields but didn’t succeed and ...
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Lil Estonia

Original title: Lil Eesti

2021 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

A new wave. New characters. A new Estonia. Lil Estonia! Documentary by Taavi Arus about the short anatony of a generation in Estonia in 2020.

Helmed by SoundCloud and radio-DJ Siim Nestor, something new is happening in Estonian music. Something not seen in a long time, much less heard. A new wave. New characters. A new Estonia. Lil Estonia! An anatomy of a generation in Estonia in 2020.
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