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Brother

Original title: Vasha

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hannu Salonen

The suspense drama directed by Hannu Salonen tells about loyalty and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness, and about the process of becoming a grown up man in a violent world.

Toomas is a 16-year-old boy full of energy from Tallinn. He has left school and wants to become an agent; he is already known as a snatcher by police officers. As a result of a car explosion, Tom gets hospitalized and meets a Chechen guy Artur who has lost his family during the war. Artur is an uncommunicative and austere man. As the police firmly believes that Artur is in touch with Estonian mafia, Tom helps him to escape, even if Artur doesn't want to get the boy involved. Despite the fact Tom follows Artur everywhere. Gradually, the dark shades ...
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Buratino, Son of Pinocchio

Original title: Buratino

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Musical adventure comedy is the second feature film directed by Rasmus Merivoo. It is based on the children's book "The Golden Key or the adventures of Buratino" by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film is a co-production of Estonia and Russia.

Buratino and his mother Maria Carlo live on the poor side of the town called GoodBad that is split into two by a wall. Buratino goes to an awful school. Most of his days are filled with acting fools and making music together with his friends Artemon, Pierrot and Toivo. Maria has not told her son the mystery behind his strange origin yet. Evil Carabas Barabas lives in the highest skyscraper of the rich part of the town and searches for the boy who has magic powers with what one can govern the world. The chase brings Buratino together with ...
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Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

The monument of the Bronze Soldier in Tõnismägi, Tallinn denoted the symbol of occupation for half a century for Estonian people, but for the Russian-speaking local residents the monument marked the victory over fascism. In April 2007 the Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the government of the Republic of Estonia decided to move the Bronze Soldier monument from central Tallinn to the Defence Forces military cemetery due to the fact that the statue had become a source of tension. As a result, a violent chaos bursted out in Tallinn. The documentary by Kanal 2 gives an overview about the events ...
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It is as it is

2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Bernardas Andriušis

A heartfelt story about friendship, family and love. Danas is a young man who has been left in a wheelchair due to a serious accident. The viewer can only assume that Danas' mother will not be able to move independently due to the same accident. However, doctors hope that with a € 60,000 operation, the woman will be able to walk again. Danas also decides to raise this money without choosing ways.
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The Hostage

Original title: Koer, lennuk ja laulupidu

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Laila Pakalniņa
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2005 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristjan Sarv
A Blow to the Back of Societ's Head

Original title: Hoop ühiskonna kuklasse

2005 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Their well-earned vacation in the homeland is taken away from Frank and Wendy.

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Their well-earned vacation in the homeland is taken away from Frank and Wendy. Why does every American have a bump on the back of their head? Who is hitting their countrymen on the head? Why is Santa Claus weeping? Why is November December? These questions make the agents restless. It is a respected custom that a restless agent loads his pistol. ...
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Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed

Original title: Metsavennad voodi ees

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.

In Estonian forests, there are thousands of graves of bushwhackers known only from legends. 77-year-old Aino Lepp from Pärnu county, Estonia, is disappointed in the way the state relates to the subject. She has been able to find and rebury about a few dozens of bushwhackers. Every single one of them finds a special place in the old woman's heart. Despite her scarce income, Aino has to drive around estonia in order to take care of the bushwhackers' graves that she has relocated. The more bushwhackers Aino reburies, the more difficult it will become for her since she gets older. ...
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Frank & Wendy

Original title: Frank ja Wendy

2005 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia.

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...
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