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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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Livonians of Professor Viitso

Title in Estonian: Professor Viitso liivlased

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso and the last Livonians.

Every person and every language have their own lifespan - birth, life, possible vanishing. Livonian language, one of the closest relatives to Estonian language, is about to disappear as a living language of communication. In 2009-2019, the Professor Emeritus of the University of Tartu, linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso met factually the last people for whom Livonian language has been their mother tongue: Viktor Berthold from Liepājast, Erna Vanaga from Ventspils and Grizelda Kristiņ from Toronto area in Canada. In Helsinki, professor Viitso also met Seppo Suhonen, a meritorious researcher of Livonian language. This documentary in Livonian language became a farewell ...
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Saime kokku Solenzaras

2010 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Eric. Child of fire

Original title: Eric. Tule laps

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Eric and his world.

When we are born and grow up, we will be equipped with a mental map that helps us to form our destiny. However, the map and the reality around us don't always correlate. The map may be more interesting than reality, and reality may turn out more complicated than the map. Eric is a fifty-year-old man who in his youth has witnessed the creative process of designing JUKU personal computer that brought fame to Estonian ESSR. He has experienced a mental state that he calls enlightenment. In 1995 he went to live in a nursing home. On the All Souls' ...
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Fear

Original title: Hirm

2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anri Rulkov

The last work by film director Anri Rulkov, a short film with the elements of horror. The psychological drama studies the deepest subliminal layers of the human past.

Odd characters and strange atmosphere create dark background to events that take place in a remote medical institution where Helen travels to identify her unexpectedly passed away mother. Helen has not seen her mother for the last twenty years. In an appalling environment, the young woman discovers her own brother among Dr. Schulze's patients. Helen vaguely remembers the existence of her brother through disturbing childhood dreams. The fear from the past as well as ignorance make Helen an easy pray for the chief doctor who will practise strange treatment methods on the young woman. Helen has to make a choice ...
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Daughter raising in the family

Title in Estonian: Peres kasvab tütar

1988 | Documentary | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski

Documentary of popular science introduces the growth problems of a teenager girl.

Documentary with staged elements introduces the issues related to the growth and raising of a teenager girl that her family and school should take into consideration and to cope with. The documentary includes also scenes from a class where the female and male anatomy is being introduced to young women. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Health of USSR.
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In Aid of Life

Original title: Aidake meid elada

1988 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Märt Müür

Documentary by Märt Müür about the life of Kalev Raave - a head of agricultural holding, member of the communist party and a social activist.

The life of Kalev Raave - a well-known head of an agricultural holding, member of the Communist Party and a social activist - is turned upside down at some point. Raave has been awarded orders and medals; yet, in 1986 he was taken into custody because of an anynymous letter. His case is to draw attention to the torments caused by the authoritarian administration of justice; as a result, the people necessary for society will be suppressed. When Raave left the prison, he found his path to God and started to study theology.
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Haymaking Time

Original title: Heinaaeg

1984 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Enn Säde

Publicistic documentary about the gaps in the technological chain of harvesting grass plants as well as the recent achievements in storing concentrated feed for winter.

The documentary continues the style of the former collaboration films ("The Ploughman's Fatigue", "Once You Mock the Field..." etc.). Filmmakers Enn Säde and Jüri Müür thoroughly discuss the problems of storing hay in the collective farms of Estonian SSR. Instead of voiceover, the authors of the film appear on the screen and comment on various themes.
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Tallinn Pedagogical Institute

Title in Estonian: Eduard Vilde nimeline Tallinna Pedagoogiline Instituut

1984 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Uno Kukk

Studying opportunities in Tallinn Pedagogical Institute.

What kind of challenges and opportunities do the young students of pedagogy face before the graduation diploma and flowers? During fifteen minutes, a tour is taken in Tallinn Pedagogigal Institute and its new offices, equipped with the most innovative technology. The film depicts students in the class. Voiceover is saying that the school reform has made the teacher's profession more prestigious.
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