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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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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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Estonian Funeral

Original title: Eesti matus

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

Andres, a young man who sells retirement insurances in shopping centres, meets a dark-skinned girl and falls in love.Lee, the newfound girl of his dreams called, is an open-minded world traveler who does not understand the „workaholism“ of Estonians nor the need to own land at all costs. With naive dreams, the young lovers want to go travel the world in search of happiness, but they have to take an unexpected small detour first. Andres has to go to his grandfather's funeral and unsuspectingly takes Lee with him. At the funeral, a colorful company of friends, family and neighbours have gathered ...
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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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Virago

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kerli Kirch Schneider

In the village of Virago, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.

A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. This is the life and the death of the men in Virago — a village where for centuries no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday. Until today.
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A Bad Scene: Mesmerized

Original title: Paha lugu: Nõiutud

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Maria Avdjuško

Middle-aged Rainar discovers on a family outing that they have left behind their food. Wandering in the forest, he stumbles upon mysterious Liina, who slowly bewitches him.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. The 4th short film, “Bewitched”, directed by Maria Avdjushko, talks about middle-aged Rainar who discovers on a family outing that they have left behind their food. Wandering in the forest, he stumbles upon mysterious Liina who slowly bewitches him.
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Nowness

Original title (in Estonian): "Olevik"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

,,Nowness’’ tells the reminiscent story of a grandfather and understanding grief and death.

Shown through a poetic lens, the film tells the story of a woman’s final farewell with her grandfather. She is grieving and her memories unfold in front of her eyes as she takes her regular “journey” to the well. The magpies evoke the memories connected with her grandfather.
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Full House

Original title: Täis maja

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

Sky is not the limit!

At the end of a tiring workday, a mailman meets his future spouse.
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Masso Advertisement

2014 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Vladislav Mukovnin

It is advertisement for an Estonian product designer Mihkel Masso.

A woman is chopping wood, typically a man's work. She is frustrated because she shouldn't be doing this kind of work while his own man is making coctails. As she receives a Masso design tray, the situation changes and his man turns into a powerful macho man.
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Next Stop

Original title: Raudteemaja nr 3

2013 | Documentary | Director: Karin Reinberg