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KINORANOK

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ruslan Mustafaev

Documentary about a peaceful life in front of the war.

10 million people have fled their homes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Emilia is one of those kids who managed to get to Estonia together with her mother, sister and aunt. She made a long way through half of Europe to wait when the war is over.
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Over the Line

Original title in Estonian: Üle piiri

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

The focus of the short film is on people struggling with their darker side, hiding their lies from others and themselves.

Left alone in a house near Peips due to the death of his brother, Jakop has to decide whether the refugees brought to his yard are a way to atone for his previous sins or to get money for a new engine instead.
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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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Helsinki - Baghdad

Original title in Finnish: "Helsinki - Bagdad"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vilma Mannermaa

Iraqi refugees in Finland try to stay in the country.

Ali left his home country Iraq fearing for his live and came to Finland looking for safety. Alisa is from Finland, but she married a refugee from Iraq and is fighting to keep him in the country. Both of them are trying to find their way in the country in the aftermath of the refugee crisis, where immigration is made harder and nothing is certain.
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The Spy and the Poet

Original title: Luuraja ja luuletaja

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

Nobody knows what anybody knows.

Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy’s plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
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See You In Chechnya

Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

If you go to war, war will come home with you.

September 1999. For Alex, as for the rest of Georgians, war in Chechnya seemed to be far away, seen only on the screens of Russian media. In fact it was just behind the Caucasus Mountains. He'd never imagine going there, but he did. He followed her, the French photographer he had met just a few days before at the fashion show. Alex discovers the world of War Reporters and wants to become one of them, but he doesn't succeed. He keeps in connected to war through his friend, practising war reporters and observes what war does to them for 15 ...
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Life on Slippery Ice

Original title: Elu libedal jääl

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Brett Orloff

Who are the refugees living among us? How have they come here? How is it possible (if at all) for them to adopt to the life in Estonia?

Only 60 refugees have been issued a living permit in Estonia during the last 20 years. The film tells the story of two of them. Ananthan from Sri Lanka moved to Estonia in 2006, and has settled down nicely with his family. Maroof arrived from Pakistan in 2011, his family a year later, and they are still figuring out the life in a new culture with different traditions.
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé
Lobotomy

Original title: Lobotoomia

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Juri Haštševatski
Three Stories About ...

Original title: Sellised kolm lugu: Aida

1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

Short film directed by Peeter Simm is inspired by a shipwreck that took place near Sõrve Peninsula, Deember 1994.

There is a ship on her beam ends ashore at the cape of Sõrve Peninsula. A local constable with a tractor drives goes to investigate the case. The chain of events that follows will change quite a few things in the emotional and mental attitudes of those included in the case. A short film about people who live, work and love almost at the periphery of the world.
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