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The Night Shift

Original title: Öine vahetus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Mikker

Film observes the first night shift of a young guy, answering calls on the suicide helpline.

Erik is a young guy, successful in his profession. Yet he has decided to start one more journey. He will be a volunteer on suicide helpline, answering calls in the middle of the night from people who feel that they have nowhere else to turn and no one who would listen to them. What will his first shift look like? What kind of tension lies on a person who can change people's future with just one word?
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House of a Dream

Original title: Ühe unistuse maja

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

For most people ballet is dancing. For ballet dancers this is life!

Tallinn Ballet School has been the starting point of the dancers' careers since 1946. This film puts together a joint portrait describing a dancer's life in the eyes of different generations. The young students who have only just begun their studies and the graduates preparing for their final exams are all observed by former ballet stars who today determine the fates of people in the house where they also once started their journey. Whose dream will prevail and whose will die?
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Letters From Iceland

Original title: Kirjad Islandilt

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat, Ruti Murusalu

In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved to Iceland and her previous life in Estonia remained unknown. Who was she, how and why did she get there?

Off the south coast of Iceland lie the Westman Islands. In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved there to work as a piano and singing teacher. For the Estonian audience, Tõnuri disappeared quietly like a shadow. For the Icelanders her previous life in Estonia remained unknown and fairly incomprehensible. Who was she, how and why did she get there?
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I have also talent for thunder

Original title: Mul annet on ka äikeseks

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary by Vahur Laiapea about Elmo Nüganen, talented actor and stage director, and the head stage manager of Tallinn City Theatre.

For Elmo Nüganen's 50th birthday in February 2012, two original presents were given to him: documentary about him "I have also talent for thunder", directed by Vahur Laiapea, and book "Elmo Nüganen. The first act" by Tallinn City Theatre. The documentary observes the period from August 2011 to February 2012 in Elmo Nüganen's life and work. Nüganen performs rehearsals in Tallinn City Theatre, directs filming, prepares his play for Perm Theatre Festival, plays in "452 degrees Fahrenheit" in Et Cetera Theatre, Moscow. We can see the ways Nüganen communicates to people and works, with the self-conscious and self-confident reactions and ...
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Sinine kõrb

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ruti Murusalu
Perfecto

Original title: Ideaalide tund

2011 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Philosophical meditation on the nature of an artist. Who is an artist - a creator or just another layabout?

Spectacular and contemplative documentary directed by Manfred Vainokivi about creating and those who create, about the beauty and pain of making art. "The Days of Parrots", a theatrical play by Andrus Kivirähk, deals with similar themes. The drama company seen in the film practises the play. Not only the birth of a theatrical play is being observed but also the reflection of the whole process in those participating and in the surrounding space. Excerpts of sentences, half-open doors, dark corridors, light and shadows, actors both at work and at pastime, stage director directing like a conductor who is waiting for ...
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Spider Web

Original title: Ämblikulõng

2000 | Feature film, Short | Director: Britt Urbla-Keller

The only good deed that the Criminal has commited in his life can save him from the sufferings of the underworld: everything will be in his own and Lord's hands.

The experimental film based on a story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is set on a theatre stage where Lord, Criminal and Spiderwoman face their temptations, desires and sufferings.
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Vaba vaimu saadik

1998 | Documentary | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto
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The Prompter

Original title: Suflöör

1993 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre.

You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute.
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Three Baltic Love Stories: Mattias and Ann. Estonian Spring 1991

Original title: Balti armastuslood: Mattias ja Ann. Eesti kevad 1991

1992 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Urbla

Three seasons, three love stories from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the era of great changes in 1991 when the Baltic states freed themselves from the yoke of Soviet Union and regained independence.

The Estonian love story takes place in spring when people were dreaming and singing about freedom and took down the monuments of Lenin, but there were still Russian fighter airplanes flying in the sky. A young Estonian dissident is released from prison and returns to his hometown Tartu. When he arrives at home, the man finds out that life has changed and his loved one has found a new man.
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