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Lights in The Night

Original title: Tuled öös

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing.

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing. We see a row of windows of an apartment building. Individual windows at first – some windows are dark, some are open and people bustle about, living, being born, dying, splitting up, rejoicing, being sad. We briefly see around twenty tiny incidents in the lives of various people – as much as can be seen through an open window or an opening in the curtains. This is perhaps only a completely insignificant and random moment, but nevertheless, if we imagine further, we can guess what might ...
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Tablemat of Baltic Sea

Original title: Läänemerelinik

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

In this film, two feathers perform a figure skating routine and draw Aleksander Suumann’s poem Tablemat of Baltic Sea on the ice.

The nature of longing is observed allegorically in the film Tablemat of Baltic Sea. People’s longings as a rule remain hidden between their pillows, but what should the feathers in the pillow do with their longings? In this film, two feathers perform a figure skating routine and draw Aleksander Suumann’s poem Tablemat of Baltic Sea on the ice.
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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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Bermuda

Original title: Bermuda

1998 | Animation, Cartoon, Students film, Animation, Produced in foreign university | Director: Ülo Pikkov

The animated film BERMUDA is a film about love. It tells the story of the life of a seaman with a wooden leg and a mermaid living in the midst of the sand dunes of a dried-up sea.

The mermaid is completely dependent on the seaman, who brings her water every day. A flute-playing centaur enters the routine life of the seaman and mermaid. The centaur and mermaid fall in love. The seaman with his wooden leg decides to destroy the newcomer, but along with the centaur he destroys his former position of absolute power over the mermaid and becomes totally dependent on her. This is a drama involving three characters, neither of whom are entirely good nor bad. Characters who long for significant changes always become bogged down in their own past when those changes arrive. ...
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Minu Virumaa

1989 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Pihlak
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The Giraffe

Original title: Kaelkirjak

1986 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

There lives only one animal in the zoo – a giraffe. No one except a little girl comes to visit it.

There lives only one animal in the zoo – a giraffe. No one except a little girl comes to visit it. To attract visitors the director of the zoo orders an advertising giraffe. But then it turns out that people are enraptured by the artificial giraffe not the living one. There begins a public “giraffe boom”. The film ridicules the enthusiasm for artificial and counterfeit common to mass culture.
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Bull Fight

Original title: Corrida

1982 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Olav Neuland

Psychological romantic drama directed by Olav Neuland. The film is based on the novel "Corrida" by Teet Kallas.

Osvald Rass is an aging literary critic who makes up his mind to leave the town and move to a lonely island with his young wife Ragne, hoping to find inspiration and harmony there. Their idyllic summer is interrupted by uninvited guests. Photographer Tarmo, Ragne's ex-boyfriend, appears from the sea. A sinister-looking bull starts to bother them, followed by the whole cattle. This leads to the bull fight where the two men are ready to prove their love towards Ragne.
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Graafik Marje Üksine

1982 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peeter Tooming
Taking Off

Original title: Lend

1973 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat
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Family 12

Original title: Perekond 12

1966 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu spend time with their small children in their hometown Uppsala in 1966; children's birthdays, pastime activities, games. The summer gathering of Estonians in Grisslehamn.

Laine is practising ballet, little Liia is crawling. Heino and Laine are decorating Easter eggs. Walpurgis Night, wearing white hats on Caroline mountain, Uppsala, logfire in the evening. Celebration of Laine Nõu's 6th birthday in June. Summer gathering of Estonians on June 25, 1966.
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