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An Estonian Man

2024 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash

Tushar Prakash is an Indian man who has come to live in Estonia because of love. In this documentary he is on a quest to learn from his partner's relatives, who live in the countryside of South Estonia, on how to become a real Estonian man.

Tushar Prakash is an Indian man who has come to live in Estonia because of love. In this documentary he is on a quest to learn from his partner's relatives, who live in the countryside of South Estonia, on how to become a real Estonian man.
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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You Are Not A Kiwi

2020 | Animation, Students film | Director:

It's more than just feathers or a number of fingers... Is society ready to accept the other and his song..?

It's more than just feathers or a number of fingers... Mr. Notakiwi wants to join the community. Is society ready to accept the other and his song..?
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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Next stop: Estonia

Original title in Estonian: Järgmine peatus: Eesti

2019 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

The documentary follows 18 years old Syrian refugee who strives to adapt in a small nordic country.

Adel was only 12-years old when the civil war in Syria reached his hometown. His parents immediately decided to leave the country. For four years, Adel and his family lived abroad as illegal refugees. They travelled from country to country, slept on the streets, fought hunger and diseases. However, their life changed when they got a message from the refugee organisaWon: A small nordic country, which they had never heard of before, accepted them as temporary ciWzens. Now, Adel has to learn to deal with the injuries of his past, and to the cold climate and reserved society of Estonia.
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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Green Cats

Original title: Rohelised kassid

2017 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

You have to be wise to see the difference.

The story of two old folks, who have spent the most time of their lives behind prison walls. Now seventy years old men have been granted an amnesty. Both men have a passionate desire to change their lives in according to a certain plans. Time is one of the main characters in this story. The time that passes from one point to another and how it changes and influences human spirit and thoughts. Old prison friends Markus and Eduard are not murders and do not have blood on their hands, from young age they have revolved in circles around thieves and other rouges, ...
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Better Tomorrow

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Liis Nimik

Liis Nimik's film tells a story of several Estonian workers who have left to Finland for a better future.

Six years after Finland opens up it's job market to new EU member states, a considerable number of Estonians have left their poorly paid jobs in Estonia in search of a better tomorrow in Finland. A bag that's always packed, a bed in an anonymous room, a kitchen that's used by countless people – these are lives on permanent standby. This is a story of a house near Helsinki, where ten Estonians live on the ground floor and Tomi, their employer, a Finn and a true Estophile, on the second. Tomi wonders why the Estonians don't do much with ...
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