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Estonian Rhapsody

Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this.
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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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Year Of The Pig

Original title: Sea aasta

2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

Monitoring a controversial year in the recent history of our country-the year 2019, an extensive visual essay of imminent serious challenges has been created by the author Raimo Jõerand. From winning the War of Independence to gaining freedom from Russian occupation during the Singing Revolution, we now have to defend our land from the brightest of foes, from ourselves. Will we be able to take on this fight?
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Celebration

Original title: Prazdnik

2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called "Sorochinsky Fair"; after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. The film is structured like a work of literature, being made up of a number of interconnected stories. The full variety of the fair and beauty contest is presented from different angles and viewpoints: that of the festival organisers; the actor playing Gogol; the instructor from the local beauty school; the ...
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Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

2019 | Experimental, Documentary, Portrait, Other categories | Director: Sten Haljak

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country. He inexplicably morphs into a psychedelic cowboy during a hypnosis session and begins another journey in his subconscious. A humorous attempt on finding a path in a documentary that also addresses viewers spiritual and transcendental reality, and renders out a surreal metaphor from behind and beyond the image. Involving two separate, but intersecting stories, while mixing experimental documentary and fiction.
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Final Call

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Peteris Masjenčenko

With fluid style and thick atmosphere, "Final Call" aims to suck the viewer into the emotional turmoil of the work and stress before the start of a performance.

Lights fill a theatre stage, only a low hum and the almost inaudible audience is heard. An actress stands in the darkness just off-stage, gathering the strength to jump into the light. "Final Call" shows the work and stress that goes into the final moments of preparation before the start of a theatre play: cast and crew members having their last cigarettes and relaxing before starting an intense warm-up together with their director. The focus lise not in the actual technical challenges of putting together the play, but rather the human emotion that arises from the high-stakes situation where everything must ...
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Winny Puhh: maailma veidraim bänd

2013 | Director: Jaan Laugamõts
When I Start ... Part One

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...I

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati Viiul

Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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Casting

Original title: Casting

2006 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Ken Saar holds a casting call in order to find main stars for a non-existent Bollywood film, befooling the jury and the participants.

Scandalous TV producer Ken Saan works on a new reality TV series "Bollywood" where the grand prix for the participants will be the main character in a real Bollywood feature film. During four days, Ken together with the jury (Andrus Vaarik, Anne Veski, Maria Rahula, Mr Triphati, the Indian ambassador in Estonia) look for the partipants for the new programme in various places in Estonia. The documentary that looks like a funny road movie won't reveal the borders between the real and the fictional world.
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Godspeed

Original title: Jumalaga

2004 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

Travel documentary by Kullar Viimne filmed in Europe in search of himself and God.

Kullar Viimne documents his tour in Europe while looking answers about the existence of God. The visual travelogue, recorded as a personal letter, is dedicated to the director's little brother who has passed away. Kullar travels as a hitchhiker, starting from Tallinn and while moving through Poland, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland he meets local people and tries to sort things out for himself.
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