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Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn. A ring found at the scene leads Melchior to the night brotherhood, the bizarre troupe who performed on Fair Day also raises questions. Frightening signs suggest that not only the unknown recovering from the attack is in danger, but also Melchior and Keterlyn, who are treating him. At the same time, the pope's envoy, known as ...
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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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Love...

Original title: Armastus...

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

It happens in the best families.

Once-promising art student Veronika despises ordinary life, so she lets binge drinking and style games fill the void. Her sidekick, gorgeous homosexual Raivo is deeply but platonically in love with her. The love triangle is completed by ex-con Fred, a tragic figure who wants to abandon his past. He sees Veronika as his only savior, even after she stabs him severely. And there’s a baby on the way…
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November

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

"November" is based on Estonian novel "Rehepapp" by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last twenty years. The film is a mixture of magic, black humor and romantic love. The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. To guard their souls, they'll give them away to thieving creatures made of wood and metal called kratts, who ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky

Original title: Nipernaadi

1983 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the novel "Toomas Nipernaadi" (1928) by August Gailit, telling the story of a restless vagabond spending his summers with travelling on foot around the country.

While traveling around Estonia in summertime, Toomas Nipernaadi has no direction nor destination - he goes where the road takes him. People think their lives have been predestined and it should be taken as an inevitability until they meet Nipernaadi who likes to make up all kinds of stories and make people excited. He promises everyone happiness, love, and himself - but no one will ever get hold of him.
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