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Kalev

2022 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ove Musting

It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union`s basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team’s participation in the USSR’s championship. That would contradict the people’s aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start…
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Matz

2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Eliza Benina

A film about the young and bright Estonian para swimming star Matz Topkin, who knows how to dream big and cheerfully accept both success and defeat.

The young and bright Estonian para swimming star Matz Topkin is remarkable in both his speed as well as his personality. Matz is an example for young swimmers, but he has something in him that he can teach to anyone. Matz disability was discovered only at birth; hence it was a big surprise for his large family. They already had two children and his mother Merje had plans to build a career in opera singing, but instead devoted most of her time and energy to little Matz. His siblings have always been good aids and haven’t treated him differently. In ...
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Bigger Than Sports

Original title: Suurem kui sport

2019 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kerttu Soans

Uncompromising "Crazy Coach" Arvi Aavik is creating the Estonian women's wrestling team out of a few capable girls.

Former Olympic athlete and female wrestler Epp Mäe's coach Arvi Aavik starts forming the first Estonian female national team where the athletes and coaches are working according to his training plan. Uncompromised and passionate Aavik, once called "A Crazy Coach", does not stop there - he wants to create something bigger than sports. He wants to erase the line between the coach and the athlete, trying to create a human touch.
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Domestic Fitless

Original title: Olmeheidutus

2011 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Hardi Volmer

A young and strong human body is mother nature’s piece of art.

A young and strong human body is mother nature’s piece of art. But should everything it faces become art as well? And if all art is only an imitation, then what does the world of fine arts imitate if some its closets are full of hidden 3D ghosts?
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Taxi-Driver

Original title: Taksojuhid

2004 | TV feature | Director: Ingomar Vihmar, Jussi Niilekselä
A Living Force

Original title: Elav jõud

2003 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Three men, three different stories about work and being lazy, dignity and despair, struggle for existence and self-pity in a ruthless society of success.

The humoristic documentary follows the struggle of three men, very different in their outlook on life: Georg – a loser, Peeter – an intellectual and Arto – a yuppie, all of them living in a society built on success and power. This is a film about work, indolence, dignity and despair.
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Jalgrattasportlane Erika Salumäe

1983 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Elo Tust
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Lurich

1983 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Valentin Kuik

The film directed by Valentin Kuik is based on a true story about the life of Georg Lurich, famous Estonian wrestler, focusing on the scandalous theft of the collection of his prizes during the wrestling tournament in Tallinn in 1910.

Georg Lurich, an Estonian professional wrestler, arrives in Tallinn in 1910 to keep the world championship in wrestling. He is welcomed by exalted compatriots and young sportsmen who consider Lurich with his athletic dedication and attitudes their idol. At the same time, Lurich is chased both by the machinations of the sports world and the dirty intrigues of local authorities. When Lurich decides to back away, both his career and life will be in danger.
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Tuult purjedesse

1981 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Kalev Vapper
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