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Chainsaws Were Singing

Original title: Mootorsaed laulsid

2024 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sander Maran

Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer.

"Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer." Monty Python meets Texas Chainsaw meets... Les Misérables. Chainsaws Were Singing is an absolutely bonkers action-horror-musical-comedy B-movie epic from Estonia. Shot guerilla style in 2013, this true love letter to crowd-pleasing exploitation cinema then spent a modest 10 years in postproduction and was finally finished in 2024. Due to its explosive energy, over-the-top humor and freshness in the Estonian cinema landscape, it is a must-watch for anyone interested in exploring Estonian cinema.
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Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud

2024 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen
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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Self-fathered

Original title in Estonian: Isaendale

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karl-Olaf Olmann

A personal family documentary in which the author has conversations with family, reflects on childhood wounds and tries to communicate with the departed family member by recreating him audiovisually.

Is a childhood without a parent irrecoverably hollow and broken? Film student Karl-Olaf has so spent his life suffering from his incompleteness by himself - now he undertakes a journey to talk about it with his family, investigate himself, and to finally listen to the thoughts of a deceased family member who has been audio-visually restored.
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Stairway to Heaven

Original title: Taevatrepp

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.

Mart Kivastik's tragicomic feature film is a free flight between the 70s and today, a story about setting your spirit free, with an added dimension by the ongoing crisis. The author is looking for an explanation for the time given to us. Is one able to enjoy life, when facing midlife, growing old and eventually death. The authors message is humane, derived from his own life experiences: love and happiness from small things make life worth living.
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YunG GOD - glenwashere

2023 | Students film, Music video | Director: Paul Henrich Daude, Kätleen Noormägi

The work is about the activities that took place when you were younger and the nostalgic feeling that comes with it: skateboarding, video games, playgrounds. At the same time, remembering the past has been compared to a feeling of a young god.

The work is about nostalgic feeling. skateboarding, video games, playgrounds. The main theme is liminal space and the accompanying emotion that comes with it.
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Circus

Original title in Estonian: Tsirkus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
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Finding the sizzle

Original title in Estonian: Sära otsides

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Slugen

Liis Slugens documentary talks about a young burlesque dancer Miss Chrissy Kiss and how burlesque has changed her life radically.

This documentary shows a little glimpse into an Estonian burlesque dancers every day life, which culminates with a burlesque show.
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Forgotten Summer Haze

Original title in Estonian:Sume mälestus

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Teresa Juksaar

Teresa Juksaar’s short film is about childhood friends who all remember the incident that happened years ago differently.

Childhood friends Pääsu, Atko and Virge try to recall the last time they were all together. Turns out they remember the incident differently. Their quest to remember takes them on a visually surreal journey of memories. However, not everybody remains truthful.
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Nostos Algos

2022 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

Film student Greta Liht`s short movie is about childhood and how to let those memories and places go. Therefore the main topic is letting go.

Luna goes back to her childhood home to retrieve childhood recordings hidden in a closet. Meeting the new owner and listening to old tapes made her realize that it is time to let those old memories go and she must move on with life.
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