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Valgus ei saagi vanaks

2022 | Other categories | Director: Heilika Pikkov
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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Meanwhile on Earth

Original title (in Swedish): Samtidigt pa jorden

2020 | Documentary | Director: Carl Olsson

A film about life surrounding death.

When we die, there are still some practicalities that need to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. In Meanwhile on Earth we enter the world around our end station, an industry of death. It is a place where the existential meets the mundane, the sacred meets the profane. Constructed as a collage of scenes and situations – each a tableau – the film investigates the human relationship with death in our society, based on the people that have made death part of their everyday lives. We meet a variety of people who work ...
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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Class Reunion 2: A Wedding And A Funeral

Original title - Klassikokkutulek 2: Pulmad ja matused

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

The sequel to one of the most loved Estonian comedy films sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead.

This is a blunt comedy in the best sense with treasured Estonian actors, telling a story about life itself and much more. The sequel to film "Class Reunion" sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Henry "Genka" Kõrvits). This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead. It has been two years since the first Class Reunion film and our three friends have all reached new stages in their lives. The rock star Toomas has finally ...
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The Man Who Looks Like Me

Original title: Minu näoga onu

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.
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The Last Exit

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liva Vilnite

Short documentary about the journey one takes before leaving Earth. Film captures last moments here - between the moment of death and funeral. Who we meet, where we go, who writes our life stories on the only physical memory we leave - the urn.

The story is about work environment and specifics of professions in The Crematorium of Riga, the only working crematorium in Latvia. The crematorium serves up to 6 cases per day offering a full service for managing the issues regarding to death. It makes work places for morgue workers, furnace operators, masters of ceremonies, coffin designers, hearse drivers and number of guards. It is a long list of professions that people do not talk about. As one of the characters said: “When my wife asks me where I am, I just have to tell her - there. She cannot even listen ...
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Film about my mother

Original title: Film minu emast

2007 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Heart-warming documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about his mother who is oppressed by the pain of loss and fear of loneliness.

Elderly Helju Laiapea lost her mother, father and three brothers during a short period of time when she was only a child - she lost her childhood and home. When Helju was 24, she buried her first son. The woman has never got over her losses - fear of losing her close ones and the idea of her own approaching death have always accompanied her. In the spring of 2007, the director introduced Naatan Haamer, a church minister, to his mother. (Vahur Laiapea had started to make a film about Haamer at that point). The meeting led into another documentary ...
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