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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

The Manslayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear ...
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The Missed Wonder

Original title: Tabamata ime

2017 | Documentary | Director: Eret Kuusk
The Perpetuum Mobile And Infinite Souls

Original title: Perpetuum mobile ja piiritud hinged

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Veermäe, Marianne Kõrver

Two men’s journeys take them through the ups and downs of life. One of them has changed into a woman and the other into a monk. Will they find the magnetic forces they need to turn on the perpetuum mobile that will help them find someone to share their lives with and somewhere to belong?

Anni’s biggest dream is to build a perpetual motion machine – the perpetuum mobile. The machine is impossible to build because it violates the most basic laws of physics. But Anni isn’t discouraged because she also violates the most basic laws of life. Her boundless energy has pulled her out of hell, changed her from a man into a woman and given her a new mission: to give us back what the universe offers – free energy. Her friend and spiritual father, secular monk Harri’s biggest dream is to create harmony between people’s bodies, spirits and their true selves; to free ...
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Time will grow through our bones

Original title (in Estonian): "Aeg kasvab läbi me luudest"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Dora Lall

Film student Dora Lall’s short film tells a story of a man who is stuck in his everyday work routine. He is unable to find a way to fulfill his dreams and wishes until everything falls apart and he is obliged to make a change.

Jaanus has been working in a factory for 10 years. He’s stuck in his everyday work but finds it impossible to make a change in his life. After a conflict with workmate Mart, change seems to be inevitabele.
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Toys and Totems

Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible.  Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

Some objects in our lives are more significant than others, be they ritual artifacts or childhood toys. Their life-stories intertwine with our own. Reflecting to and from their significant objects, children create reality, and so can grown-ups. The film, with its documentary stories, stop-motion animation and associative imagery, pays tribute to the humans’ bittersweet yearning for re-connection and transformation. Ritual objects and children’s toys can be equally infused with the power to change our perceived reality. Playing is a cosmological act that can make anything possible.
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14 Cases

Original title: 14 käänet

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities.

The film is based on several parallel personal stories of Russian families. During almost four years, the filmmakers observed Ksenija and Emilia who went to an Estonian kindergarten at the age of 5; 7th-grade pupil Mark who preferred Estonian school; and high-school student Vitali who went to study to St. Petersburg from Estonia. The film attempts to understand the problems that the children and their parents whose native language is Russian are dealing with - fears and hesitations, hopes and frustation, successes and failures, integration and isolation, language and identity. Regardless of being afraid of losing their identity, the protagonists ...
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2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Erik Hans Sepp

This short film directed by Erik Hans Sepp tells a story of a thief who gets taught a lesson he will remember for the rest of his life.

Rene, a thief in his twenties, goes to steal a chocolate bar in the middle of the night, but on his way home he gets taught a lesson he will remember for the rest of his life.
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A Car Called Victory

Original title (in Russian): "Победа"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Vladislav Mukovnin

Media student Vladislav Mukovnin's short film based on the novel by Ilmar Taska and speaks of a little boy and his parents in the post-war Soviet era.

Late 40’s, the boy disobeys parents ́ cautions and meets a stranger on a brand new car Victory who promises to teach him driving but this promise has severe consequences.
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About Tallinn

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Collin Browne

In Tallinn the public transportation has aspects both unique and common to other countries. An international student discusses these in an interview.

In an interview Collin, and international student from Antigua and Barbuda recounts his discovery the public transportation system in Tallinn and compares it to his home country’s.
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