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The Snow Queen

Original title: Lumekuninganna

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Marko Raat

The winter fairy tale for grown-ups written and directed by Marko Raat is based on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.

A woman living in the ice castle coaxes a young boy to live with her. The boy is so enchanted by the beauty of the woman and the ice kingdom that he will soon forget about the real world. She hides her secret from the boy, not telling him the reason why she lives in cold. The romantic drama tells about the beginning of all-powerful love. The visually fascinating "The Snow Queen" has been mostly filmed in an ice-cream storage building where a special film set was built. The ground was flooded with enormous amount of water that was ...
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Journey in Quest of Eurydike

Original title: Eurydike otsinguteel

2007 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

In his searches in the world of dance, Dorian Supin meets the zest for life of elderly people, the dedication of amateur dancers and the polished performance of professional dancers. Dance frees the ancient power of creation in people.

Elderly women and men with plenty of life experience meet at the ballroom dancing nights where they have the chance to dance, chat, find friends or a beloved one, or just spend time. Interesting personalities share their story, including their decision to find a new partner after having lost their former wife or husband. Different destinies meet on the dance floor - both the poor and the rich ones, the depressed and the silently happy ones, the narcissistic babes and the ones leading an energetic, athletic lifestyle. Fragments of dancing, excerpts of training, solo performances of professional dancers sum up ...
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Return from the End Station

Original title: Väsinud end vihkamast

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Elen Lotman
Kuutõbised

2006 | Documentary | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden
The Team

Original title: Tiim

2006 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peep Puks
Tormis' Sledge of Song

Runic Songs of Tormis

2005 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

Documentary by Sulev Keedus about composer Veljo Tormis who has studied and created runic songs for about fifty years. The film introduces Tormis's thoughts and activities as well as the production of his musical piece "Estonian ballads".

“Runic Songs of Tormis” is not a biographic film about Veljo Tormis. This film does not leaf through old photo albums, nor does it tell stories about the exciting events in the composer’s life. Tormis is sitting in his summer cottage, enjoying silence around him. He says that he has put a full stop to writing music five years ago. He does not create any music any more. Instead of facing his piano he is solving crossword puzzles. Meanwhile, he is pondering on for how many years he has been involved in runic songs - some fifty years altogether. It ...
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A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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Brothers

Original title: Broidit

2003 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Esa Illi

The first full-length feature film directed by Finnish filmmaker Esa Illi tells about love and death, the feeling of guilt and salvation. The majority of the Finnish-Estonian co-production has been filmed in Pärnu, Estonia.

Young Finnish man Joni decides to move to Pärnu with his Estonian girlfriend Rimma. Joni's brother, photographer Sami who is 15 years older, is so busy working that he is about to lose his girlfriend Sanna. Sami is told by Joni's doctor that Joni should be quickly found. Sami has the feeling that Joni is not well and feels responsible for bringing Joni back to hospital in Finland. Yet, Sami finds out that Joni is in love and happy with his life in Pärnu, not thinking about death. When the brothers meet abroad in a strange town, they will rediscover ...
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Estonian Prison

Original title: Eesti vangla

2003 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The main subject of the history documentary is Patarei Prison - a unique architectural and historical building.

Tower, Bastille, Sing-Sing, Butyrka are all ominous buildings with rich history. The first Republic of Estonia that was established in February 1918 founded a central prison (that people started to call simply "Patarei") in the buildings of a former cannon battery of a sea fortress. During various eras both criminals and visionaries have been imprisoned here. Recollections of those who have been prisoners due to their worldview include the pieces of Estonian and European history in 20th century.
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Somnambulance

Original title: Somnambuul

2003 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The second feature film directed by Sulev Keedus is a phychological drama about human fear of tomorrow and about hopeless pursuits in order to keep one's spiritual balance in Estonia that has been recently occupied.

The Coastal Swedes have left their village in Estonia to flee from the war. Only Gottfried the lighthouse keeper has stayed there. His young daughter Eetla decides to stay with his father. Here she is now together with his father - facing her own stress and the Soviet soldiers in the village. Fear of unknown makes Eetla escape to her dreams. While standing on the edge of the sky, the earth and the sea, Eetla struggles between reality and dreams, life and death. Kasper, the doctor who hides himself in the lighthouse, tries to support the girl but even he ...
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