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Rauaniit

2020 | Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy.

To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy. An observational documentary by Maria Aua is about the reconstruction of the former textile factory into the Academy of Arts. The process of transformation is the result of the selfless and hard physical work of the builders. A glamorous opening party takes place in the newly completed modern house, the rooms are filled with new kind of people, there are no builders ...
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Living Together a la Sri Lanka

Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

2016 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Documentary | Director: Mati Kark

The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

In 2016 it was seven years since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Some people don't even remember who the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were and for what they were fighting. At the same time, we are witnessing the growth of extremism in Europe as well as the military conflict in Ukraine. It seems that the history of Sri Lanka civil war serves as the best example how easily increasing jingoism can lead us to aggressive conflicts. But what makes people hate? Where is the formula of integration and peaceful co-existence? The authors of the documentary ...
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Villa Antropoff

2012 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?
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A Normal Human Being

Original title: Normaalne inimene

2010 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Tanno Mee, Kaidi Tamm

Lots of people in the success oriented society are struggling with personal crisis and trying to escape it; this makes one question the validity of default choices one has made.

Academician Kaie suffers from crisis that influences both her health and private life. She reaches an understanding that she is no longer satisfied with the roles and status that she has had in the success oriented society. The price for three jobs and acknowledgement is inner dissatisfaction - is that a normal life? Kaie feels that she is stuck in a rut and decides to change her life in order to find herself and her true calling. Kaie finds support in Lilleoru community and the yoga teacher Ingvar Villido. While practising kriya yoga she consciously tries to re-organize and redesign ...
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Independence Day

Original title: Eesti lood. Iseseisvuspäev

2003 | Problem oriented, Students film, Documentary | Director: Hanna Šein

Life of four young persons with different social background in today's Estonia, right before the local independence day, February 24, 2003.

The documentary observes the lives of four young Estonians in their twenties who have different backgrounds and living conditions. The film opposes the new generation of urban youth in Tallinn and the young people of the same age living in smaller towns in Estonia. What do the following people think, feel and want - Rauno who works as a supplier in a small town; Rainer who works as a head of department at a supermarket in Tallinn; Brett, a student at the University of Tartu; and young farmer Andres. How different are their attitudes towards their lives, Estonia and the ...
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I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

Part 1 and 2

1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

This film is about one of the greatest social hotspots in Estonia during the Soviet times when apartments were given for free by the state, telling the story of a real estate agent and a homeless man. Mass immigration in 1944-1988 led to demographic conflict. Free apartments were mainly given to immigrants despite the fact that local people badly needed places of residence as well. They are not tourists, they live here, but they haven't got home.
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The Beggar

Original title: Kerjus

1985 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Rein Raamat
In the Backyard

Original title: Tagahoovis

1957 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Viktor Nevežin

The film directed by Viktor Nevezhin is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts, depicting the life in slums in 1930s with melacholy humour and colourful characters. It is the first Estonian film adaptation of a literary classics where the best drama actors of that time perform.

The film is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts and the drama play directed by Andres Särev, telling the story about the distressed residents living in poor slums during the economic crisis of the first Estonian Republic in early 1930s. It is the life in the backyard both literally and symbolically.
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