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Leonardo from Randvere

Original title: Randvere Leonardo

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

The life of Endel Saarepuu (70) is filled with art. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work.

Endel Saarepuu was born to be an artist. No other role that life has offered for Endel, has ever lasted. The house, where his family was once supposed to live, has now become a home for hundreds or wooden sculptures, stained glass works and drawings. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work. A sketch on a piece of paper or the client's wish is just an impulse. The final result is dictated by the material and the working process. Natural phenomena affect wooden sculptures and people's thoughts change the meaning of ...
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I Won´t Come Back

Original title: Я не вернусь

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya – reliving her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced to rewrite her life. In I Won’t Come Back, Ilmar Raag, director of the ...
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SOS Lasteküla reklaamid

2012 | Advertising | Director: Peter Murdmaa
The Rich of Spirit

Original title: Hing on sees

2004 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Young people with intellectual disability perform both real and imaginary situations in their psychodrama group.

Some people are born with unfair destinies - they won't be healthy and strong. We are all different when it comes to our corporal or intellectual existence; yet, our emotional self is more or less the same. Kristiina, Triinu, Leena, Aivar, Kristo and Slava are young people in their early twenties with intellectual disability. They have grown up in an orphanage and been close all their lives. In 2004, Aivar Simmermann, a story theatre director, used the method of psychodrama in order to help the young people to perform moments from their lives and about their dreams. The stories were ...
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Stolen Meeting

Original title: Varastatud kohtumine

1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius

The psychological drama directed by Leida Laius keeps expanding upon a woman's destiny.

Valentina gets out of prison, goes back to Estonia and starts looking for her son Jüri whom she has given up for adoption years ago. She firmly believes that together with her son life would completely change. Valentina has grown up in an orphanage and knows nothing about her parents. She blames the fact for the twists and turns of her life and wants better for her son whom she loves from the bottom of her heart. When Valentina finally finds her son in Tartu where he lives in a civilized well-off Estonian family, she will face an unexpected issue.
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Games For Teenagers

Original title: Naerata ometi

1985 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius, Arvo Iho

The feature film directed by Leida Laius is based on the youth novel "Stepmother" by Silvia Rannamaa. The socially sensitive drama is telling the story about the children growing up in an orphanage and about parents' responsibility for their children's fate.

Mari's mother is dead and her father is a drunkard. Life in an orphanage seems impossible but she has nowhere to go. She must get used to live without a home full of warmth and love, together with rough fellow orphans. Fortunately, there is Tauri who behaves well but for some reason other children don't favor him. Robi is a guy who likes to break the rules, thus being popular among the kids; Mari thinks that Robi should be hated instead. Mari finds it almost intolerable to learn the lesson how to see other people around her and how to ...
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The next pick

Original title: Järgmine loosimine

1983 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peeter Simm

Documentary by Peeter Simm about the orphanage children the day they will draw lots for other people.

It is a special day in an orphanage today. Its boys and girls put on beautiful national costumes in order to take part in the ceremony of lottery winners. These are the children who have never had the chance to enjoy the life's wheel of fortune themselves draw the lots of state lottery for other people. The winners get various presents: money, portable radios, even cars ... At that night, the children will go to sleep with a good feeling - finally they have had the chance to touch happiness. The documentary short story shows the life in an orphanage ...
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Tule süütamine

1979 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Veljo Käsper
I'd like to be at home

Title in Estonian: Ma tahaksin kodus olla

1977 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart

The sad destiny of neglected children.

The documentary focuses on a sad topic whereas the protagonists are the neglected children without parental care, first in the children's room in the militia's office and after that taken to the orphanage, a special boarding school or in the worst case in the youth colony. Children at various ages talk about their difficult lives. Interviews with the children are sincere and honest.
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Sündis inimene

1975 | Documentary | Director: Leida Laius
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