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Mihkel

Original title (in Icelandic): Undir Halastjörnu

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ari Alexander Magnusson

In the film, Mihkel and Veera dream of moving from their home in Estonia to Iceland. Events take an unexpected turn and Mihkel dies a painful death in Iceland, betrayed by his oldest friend, Igor.

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an  Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into ...
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Empty Space

Original title: Tühi ruum

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.

A 10-years old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead puppy she got father she had no idea he was still alive. This documentary based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.
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Elizabeth`s Playground

Original title: Elizabethi mänguväljak

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maris Kerge, Erik Norkroos

Little Elizabeth is traveling around in a miraculous world of ballet.

Four-year-old Elizabeth was born into the family of ballet dancers, so she has spent majority of her life with her parents at the ballet theatre. She knows every member of the ballet company at the Estonian National Ballet and has seen every ballet performance for numerous times. Elizabeth loves, even adores ballet. Would she be different if she were raised in a different environment? The documentary shows little Elizabeth's journey through the fairy-tale like world of theatre where the real world meets the illusory one and fairy-tales come true.
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Highway Patrol Officer

Original title: Kiirtee kordnik

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld, Meelis Muhu

Motorcycle policemen are observing the drivers exceeding the speed limit on the roads.

The police officer on a motorbike has to catch the speeders on Estonian highways. In the name of road safety, motorbike policemen risk every day their lives - it is not the question whether a biker falls but when he falls. Toomas Kivilo is one of the few motorbike patrol officers who has passed a special training. Every spring, he steps out from his safe patrol car in order to take out the powerful motorbike and to speed into the wild hell of highway traffic.
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Mesipuu poole

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
The House Guard

Original title: Majavalvur

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ingel Vaikla

The story of degradation of the legendary Tallinn Linnahall from the point of view of a man together with his own story of life.

Portrait documentary about two characters - Tallinn Linnahall and its guard Peeter. Once the pride of Tallinn, Linnahall has become a desolate building; yet, it has its own faithful supporters. In every three days, Peter works 24-hour shift here as a guard. The monumental palace of culture and sports was built for the summer olympic games in 1980 - the building that now looks as a ghost castle. Peeter loves this somber house - its grandiosity still reminds of the glorious old days. The guard knows that when the building stays empty it will perish just like a man without ...
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16 Stairsteps

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Adele Thele Kuusk

“16 stairsteps” is a short movie, based on real life. The story is about courage and honesty. It tells about a young man, who's vitality has gone. He lives his everyday life, which has become into total routine. The neighbor he has, always finds a reason to knock on his door again and yell at him. Suddenly he starts to hear some music coming downstairs from the same neighbor. The neighbor is playing the guitar and practising day-by-day, getting better every time. The man is confused and finally pulls himself together to go downstairs and now be the one who ...
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Clock Stopped at 6.30

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Vilnite

Time stops when a young woman Emily contemplates after experiencing a sexual violence act. Will she manage to get over her tragedy and find purpose to live again?

Film is a french-style visual poem about a young woman –Emily, who becomes a victim of a rape. She seeks asylum in her countryside house, where she grew up. Soon Emily discovers the struggle that lays in front of her, as she must once again find reasons to live. 
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Mother. In the Name of The Millions

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

When a mother hides another mother's son, she faces her destiny, same way the millions of mothers did so in those remarkable days we shall never forget.

A dying son recalls his Mother. She lives during a war in an occupied territory. Out of instinct, she hides in her home an injured soldier. She takes care of him as of her own child who is also at war. One day the occupants come back to the village and discover him. By interrogating the Mother and fellow villagers, they investigate whether the man is her son. And now the Mother faces her destiny, same way millions of mothers faced it in those remarkable days which we should not forget.
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Sun is a Good Child

Original title: Päike on hea laps

2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Filmmaker Manfred Vainokivi portrays physics teacher Mart Kuurme teaches physics and astronomy to children in Africa.

Mart Kuurme is a lifetime physics teacher. He arrives to Kongo village in Northern Ghana on October 21st, 2013 in order to start working as a volunteer teacher of physics and astronomy to local children. Solar eclipse is expected in Ghana on November 3rd. Mart carefully prepares for the event: observations of the starry sky at late night, physics lessons in a local secondary school. The film also reflects the life of local people, often accompanied by dancing - they dance everywhere and all the time, either in football competitions, funerals or harvesting parties, even in churches. Mart goes to ...
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