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Lemonade Tale

Original title: Limonaadi lugu

2013 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Vallo Toomla

Little Holger wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy Holger still takes a bottle off the shelf and.... gets sucked into the lemonade bottle!

Little Holger goes shopping together with his mom. Holger wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy Holger still takes a bottle off the shelf and.... gets sucked into the lemonade bottle! He falls into a dark-green bubble-soda ocean. He is unable to get back to the real world where his mother is already looking for him. Beeing trapped in the bubble-soda bottle he finds a friend who is ready to help him to return.
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Singing Nadezhda

Original title: Laulev Nadežda

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.

The documentary tells the story about Nadezhda who has moved to Estonia from Russia; for her, the most important people are her loving husband and nine children. Both Nadezhda and Rustam, the father of her children, are deeply religious and think God is present in everything and everybody. Her songs are extremely heartfelt and full of love towards God; she sings about her children and Estonia, love and God in the tunnel of Viru Centre and earns extra money.
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The Flower of Sun

Original title: Päikeselill

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaanis Valk

Piet Boerefijn is a Dutchman who has founded Estonian Food Bank. His thinks his duty is to make society a more rightful and friendlier place.

Dutchman Piet Boerefijn who lives in Estonia has founded Estonian Food Bank that provides food for those in need - indigent families with many children, single parents, unemployed, people in need of help and in trouble. Piet's human essence is based on the feeling of justice, empathy and helpfulness. For his socially compassionate and judicious work, Piet has received orders both from the President of the Republic of Estonia and the Queen of the Netherlands. Piet has faced the reality of local life in every social layer. He has met top politicians as well as the poorest people in need; ...
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Gross National Happiness

Original title: Üleriigiline õnn

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Anne-Mari Neider, Minna Hint
Trendy Dog

Original title: Moekoer

2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Moonika Siimets

Documentary about the daily lives of the lapdogs Nufi and Vishenka and their owners Nele and Marina; also about their dreams and dedication that knows no limits.

In the glamorous world of lapdogs, Nufi and Vishenka are more than dogs - they are stars. Their owners Nele and Marina are fully dedicated to leading the lives that the status of their pets require from them, including all the ups and downs - either the successful performance at the fashion show or looking for the right mating partner. The film tells about love and friendship in an original and unexpected way.
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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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Hurry up! The Museum is Closing

2007 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Giampietro Balia

Media student Giampietro Balia's coursework in the subject "Filmmaking". The documentary compares today's fast pace of life with the timeless atmosphere of the museum.

A documentary that conveys its message without saying a word. The content of this message, which is conveyed by shots of an empty museum building juxtaposed with the bustle of people in a large shopping mall, is up to each viewer to decide.
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Springtime Wonderband

Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.
Confiscated

Original title: Konfiskeeritud

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Asko Kase

The chief specialist of Tallinn Customs Board reveals information about the daily life of customs officials among a huge amount of prohibited goods.

Every year, Estonian customs authorities forfeit goods worth of tens millions of Estonian kroons. The documentary explores the ways prohibited goods are detected and what will happen to the contraband items. The protagonist of the film is Tõnu Pärk, the chief specialist at Tallinn Customs Inspectorate, whose daily job is to detect contraband goods and decide on its destiny. Pärk who has graduated from the department of medical science introduces the filmmakers his daily tasks at the customs inspectorate, including seizing, storaging and extinguishing contraband goods.
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Estonia's Choice 2001

Original title: Eesti valik 2001

2002 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

An important moment in Estonian history has been recorded for future generations - the process of presidential elections of the Republic of Estonia in 2001 and electing Arnold Rüütel as the President of Estonia.

After three rounds of voting in Riigikogu and two rounds of voting in the electoral body, Arnold Rüütel, former chairman of the Supreme Council of ESSR was elected the President of the Republic of Estonia for the next five years during the presidential elections in 2001. The filmmakers follow the process of elections, they talk to the politicians and presidential candidates and discuss the problems that our small country is facing and will face.
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