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Kalev

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ove Musting

It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union`s basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team’s participation in the USSR’s championship. That would contradict the people’s aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start…
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Hunter

Original title: Kütt

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk
The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Ambassador of Setomaa

2012 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

On either side of a disputed and un-ratified border between Estonia and Russia lies the land of the Seto people, Setomaa (meaning "Land of Wars" in the Seto language). Nowadays there are approximately 10 000 Setos left in the World. Valli who has grown up in a proper Seto family in Pechorsky District has been living in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for the last 40 years. According to her bloodline she is the fifth generation Seto folk singer. Besides her day-to-day work at Äripäev Publishing Valli continues to keep the traditions of singing and playing the garmon alive. However, ...
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When You Live By Nights

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Jouna Keränen

”Kun Eletään Öisin” (eng. ”When You Live by Nights”) is a short fiction film, from the genre of drama, It depicts the life of the protagonist through both the narration and his actions, within the timespan of one day. The film consists of a main character, that appears on the screen most of the time and a minor character, that is shown at the end.
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A Singing City - Tallinn

Original title: Laulev linn

2010 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Mikk Rand

Music documentary about the The Mixed Choir of the European Capital of Culture and its energetic conductor Veronika Portsmuth. The documentary follows their participation in the 6th World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China.

Happy people sing regardless of a lack of money and support from decision-makers - benevolent enthusiasm can go very far! The Mixed Choir of the European Capital of Culture 2011, initiated by the citizens of Tallinn, comprises of people from different fields of culture such as artists, actors, film directors, teachers, musicians, etc. They are passionate about singing and want to take their hometown to the world... Regardless of several obstacles, the choir is selected to compete at the Choir Olympics in Shanghai, which takes them to China. There, they represent their city at the World Expo 2010. Their motivation ...
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Püha tuli

2010 | Documentary | Director: Erik Norkroos
Marina

2007 | Documentary | Director: Eva-Katariina Taimre

The documentary tells about the life of a young woman and her four children in a small room in a social house during five months.

A young woman raises four little daughters all alone. She lives in a small room of a social house, mainly surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts. The father of the children is in prison. The mother hopes that the President of Estonia will accept the resolution of granting a pardon in the coming spring so that they would start a new life together, in a new town, with new friends and new hopes. The filmmakers follow the woman's life and events during the time until the President's decision will be made.
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What if the grass was greener

Original title: Kui seda metsa ees ei oleks...

2007 | Documentary | Director: Ergo Kuld

Does the list of schools based on formal results prove anything after all? The documentary tells about a small school - Misso Secondary School - that is the last one in the list.

According to the results of the final exams, Misso Secondary School has been losing the competition among Estonian high schools for years. Tallinn French Lyceum, Secondary School No 21, Tallinn English College and other elite schools have had the leading positions. How adequate are these results after all? What do the little „straw-heads“ (so were the pupils of Misso Secondary School called in a respectable publication) think of it? What do their teachers and tutors think? The film searches for the answers through the everyday life of a province school and philosophy. Are we ready to look inside ourselves and ...
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Travelling Light

Original title: Reis kerge pagasiga

2006 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne