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Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud

2024 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen
Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kiur Aarma
Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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It All Happened In Võru

Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

The Republic of Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. During the century, the little town of Võru has lived through all the events that have rejoiced or shaken the entire country – gaining and regaining of independence, world wars and deportations, destructions and reconstructions. For people living in Võru, it is the centre of the universe. For them everything happens here. What makes this life worth living?
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Tallinn Spiced Sprats. The Canned Tales

Original title: Tallinna kilud

2011 | Feature film, Short, Other categories | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma made the residents of Tallinn to perform the opposition between the manor owner Johann von Uexküll in Riisipere and the Hochedle Rath der Stadt Reval or the higher consilium governing the city of Tallinn back in 16th century.

Playful tale of fantasy about the city of Tallinn told by the stories of local people. The stories of the living and the dead, memories and urban legends, children and skeletons meet here. The almost one-thousand-year-old legend of Tallinn brings all these seemingly different tales together. Manor owner Johann von Üxküll was executed in Tallinn in 1535 for killing peasant Mattis. 12 present day residents of Tallinn reconstruct this old tale in front of cameras – the story about justice and equality.
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Staar maakas

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
Disco and Atomic War

Original title: Disko ja tuumasõda

2009 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Playful documentary by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma about the development of their generation during the Soviet era where the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture and the Finnish Television was the window to the world of dreams.

The playful documentary tells the story about a strange war of information in Estonian SSR during the 1980s when the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture. And the heroes won. Western pop culture played extremely important part in developing the world view of the Soviet youth - today this may seem rather weird. Finnish Television, that was visible only for people living in Northern Estonia, was the only window to the world of dreams and that was out of reach for the authorities to be banned. The documentary combines political action with fictional stories based on the memories ...
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Jubilee Year

Original title: Juubliaasta

2009 | Documentary | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kaspar Kallas

Chronicle film about the events in the Republic of Estonia in 2008.

The documentary takes the viewer to the visual journey taking place in the recent past where extreme optimism is going to be replaced by sobering reality during a year. Filmmakers pay attention to obligatory events: the parade of the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia and the reception of the President in Theatre Estonia. The film continues with the polemic about the War of Independence Victory Column and the new Chancellor of Justice. Filmmakers also document Uma Pido song festival in Võru county first held in 2008 as well as the punk song festival. At the end of the filming ...
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Whatever, Aleksander!

Original title: Misiganes, Aleksander!

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

The road film for young audiences is the graduation thesis by Maiju Ingman (Tallinn University), telling the story of Aleksander, a young man graduating from the high school, of his weltschmerz and his self-discovery.

Aleksander is a talented young man who has no idea what to do with his life after graduating from the high school. Choosing a career, a family, a university degree, or joining the army seem out of question. It is like he had no interest in anything. Unfortunately, neither Aleksander's parents nor his friends can give him advice. For years, Aleksander has observed the way other people live their lives. This has led him to an understanding that he does not want to become one of them. He wants a different life. Only that he does not know what kind ...
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Punk and the Family

Title in Estonian: Punk ja perekond

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspar Kaljas

Daughter of the pioneers of Estonian punk rock Anu and Tõnu, 15-year-old Reginleif tells about her parents and punk.

Reginleif is an intelligent teenager girl whose parents have been separated for years. Her parents are not the most common people: both of them are the pioneers of Estonian punk rock - Anu and Tõnu Trubetsky. While moving between two homes and being often alone, Reginleif has become a young woman with strong and healthy self-consciousness.
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