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Casablanca

2024 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Riho Unt

How are You?

Paul and Mary fall in love in the pottery factory. However, the seemingly innocent clay mugs have their own vision of the budding romance. By manipulating with lively messages, the mugs take it upon themselves to decide the fate of the characters.
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Galina

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Paradise is not just given. Paradise must be fought for.

A portrait film about composer Galina Grigorjeva. Born in Ukraine, she studied at the Simferopol Music School and the Odessa Conservatory, graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Yuri Falik in 1991, and pursued her master`s studies at the Estonian Academy of Music from 1994 to 1998 under the guidance of Lepo Sumera. The passion with which Galina explains the meaning of life and her concern over the fading of that meaning, such courage is rare and enlightening: "Pure art does not interest me at all. I`m interested in where we`re heading and the Spirit that gives us the impetus. ...
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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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The Last Ones

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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Bird Flu

Original title: Linnugripp

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Tender

A love affair between Birdman and Snakewoman.

Story about a man and a snake, an alcoholized penguin and the disappearance of birds. Story about an apple tree and apples, about roots and rootlessness. Story about a paradise and about the expel from it.
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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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The House Guard

Original title: Majavalvur

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ingel Vaikla

The story of degradation of the legendary Tallinn Linnahall from the point of view of a man together with his own story of life.

Portrait documentary about two characters - Tallinn Linnahall and its guard Peeter. Once the pride of Tallinn, Linnahall has become a desolate building; yet, it has its own faithful supporters. In every three days, Peter works 24-hour shift here as a guard. The monumental palace of culture and sports was built for the summer olympic games in 1980 - the building that now looks as a ghost castle. Peeter loves this somber house - its grandiosity still reminds of the glorious old days. The guard knows that when the building stays empty it will perish just like a man without ...
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Free Range. Ballad on Approving of the World

Original title: Free Range. Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest

2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

An optimistic anti-western about the possibility to attain the inscrutable and benevolent indifference towards all mundane affairs even here, in the midst of the pointless and sad life of contemporary Europeans.

Fred is a young writer who instead of living a dull everyday life is indulged in daydreaming. He believes that romantic freedom is possible and the writer's status provides greater liberation in life for him. All of a sudden, Fred is not free any more. His girlfriend is pregnant and he has to take the consequences, adjust himself to the society, and give up the idea of romantic freedom. Fred is a free range man whose freedom is being restricted by society. He is asking himselt whether is is possible to live his life the way he won't suffer later ...
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Olga

2013 | Feature film, Short, Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

Short film directed by Kaur Kokk about a middle-aged woman entrapped in loneliness and her attempts trying to remain a human being in an absurd world.

Surreal prose poem and lyrical-grotesque tragicomedy about religion, identity, responsibility, hope and hopelessmess. Parking guard Olga spends her monotonous days around the cars shoveling snow. The only breath of fresh air in her life is another lonely soul, Joel, who is a gambling addict. At least there is someone whom Olga can take care of. When Olga's only friend Joel is drunk, he takes it out on her. Being exhausted from being lonely, Olga helplessly tries to communicate with her daughter, but it seems to be waste of time, the child won't listen to her mother. All attempts to seek ...
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Life is a Flower

Original title: Elu on lill

2010 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Two grand old masters, artists Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, are recording the beauty of a naked woman.

Documentary about the meeting between two grand masters, artist Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, during which they portrait a young model and have a discussion about life and art. 94-year-old Okas and 82-year old Suur are full of life and creative artists who get still inspired from the beauty of a woman. The two old artists run around the young naked woman as representing a philosophical vignette about the flourishing and withering of life, an existential etude with erotic attachments.
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