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The Diary of Vaino Vahing

Original title: Vaino Vahingu päevaraamat

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rainer Sarnet

When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.

In 1968–1984, Vaino Vahing kept a diary about real events and persons in his own subjective interpretation. It reflects cultural life of Tartu, love affairs, bohemian parties and intellectual quests of the time. Vahing was interested in borderline situations, crossing the borders. He drew no clear line between art and life. Vahing provoked people, tried to make them to lose their masks, their self control. He called this provoking the Spiel, or play. We are looking at a creator who has made disharmony his source of inspiration, who experiences “the greatest torment in love”. One who fears to lose himself ...
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Wednesday

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Eeva Mägi

Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity. An everyday life full of bitter sweet love falls with the setting sun into the depths of the sea.

Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity. An everyday life full of bitter sweet love falls with the setting sun into the depths of the sea.
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Bad Hair

Original title: Karv

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Oskar Lehemaa

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Insecure and balding Leo has closed himself in his apartment. A mysterious hair growth liquid arrives at his doorstep and Leo uses it to fix up his looks. The liquid causes a series of grotesque metamorphoses with Leo’s hair and skin. Leo tries desperately to get bodily changes under control as the events of the evening quickly turn into chaos.
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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Landscape with Many Moons

Original title: Maastik mitme kuuga

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaan Toomik

Landscape with Many Moons is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children.

Landscape with Many Moons is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever harder to distinguish between what is real and ...
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Rat King

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Petri Kotwica

An Estonian-Finnish co-production is an adventure film for youth directed by Petri Kotwica, telling about the dangerous consequences of video game addiction.

With the help of his long-time virtual friend Niki, 18-year-old Juri discovers a website where a game begins. The purpose of the seemingly innocent game is to fulfill various missions in real life, but it will take the boys to the whirl of dangerous events. The borders between the virtual and real world disappear. The question is whether this is a game after all?
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Taarka

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ain Mäeots

The drama directed by Ain Mäeots is based on the play "Taarka" by Kauksi Ülle and tells the story of the Mother of Song - Hilana Taarka - who was despised as a woman and worshipped as a singer.

When young Taarka plays the frog and prince game with her friend Vasso and kisses him, her destiny is already being changed - Taarka's father has gambled away all his money and his daughter's silver jewelry in the tavern. Taarka has a great singing talent but since she is poor and has dark complexion her boyfriend Vasso is told not to marry her. When Taarka gives birth to twins, Vasso is nowhere to be seen. She struggles through life alone and becomes a self-confident woman living according to her own rules. She is known as the Mother of Song ...
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Lost

Original title: Valge laev

1970 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kalju Komissarov

The political adventure film directed by Kalju Komissarov tells about the protesting youth in Estonia in early 1970s who will become victims of ideological diversion.

Two young people from the Soviet Estonia, Juhan and Linda, arrive at the coast of Sweden. They have left behind long ideological debates with their friends - and this has unexpectedly resulted in a murder. Juhan and Linda are unaware that they will meet here people who have been watching them for quite some time in order to take advantage of them. Even if the young couple is being helped from Estonia, they are still walking on thin ice.
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Näitleja päev

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Toivo Kuzmin