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Weight of Light

2024 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

A teenage girl's eyes open up to the untold stories of women surrounding her, when she stumbles upon a photo camera on a vast garbage mountain in Delhi.

Surya, a teenage ragpicker, finds a camera on a huge garbage mountain in Delhi. The camera becomes her window to the untold stories of women surrounding her. The film walks the line between documentary and fiction and focuses on a community of garbage collectors who try to find their place in the world amidst garbage and scorching heat.
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Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn. A ring found at the scene leads Melchior to the night brotherhood, the bizarre troupe who performed on Fair Day also raises questions. Frightening signs suggest that not only the unknown recovering from the attack is in danger, but also Melchior and Keterlyn, who are treating him. At the same time, the pope's envoy, known as ...
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Dusk

Original title in Estonian: Õhtuline

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

The short film is made by second year film students. It tells a story of a young female police officer who suddenly has to fight with her inner doubts and assumptions when meeting a stranger.

Young police officer Mirjam path crosses with a young and bizarre guy Lauri whose lifestyle in a van makes Mirjam anxious. She suddenly finds herself in a situation where she quickly needs to determine right from wrong while her life is at stake.
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Funny Family

Originalt title (in Russian): Веселая cемейка

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Pogosov

The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.

Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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Traitor

Original title: Reetur

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Philip Kaat, Ali Moniri

The quiet morning routine of a married couple is interrupted when a stranger appears on their doorstep asking for help.

Darius, a Middle-Eastern backpacker witnesses a crime in the woods of Estonia and takes a photo of it. The criminals give chase and Darius ends up begging for help on the doorstep of Jaan and Kaia, an older married couple. The foreigner makes Jaan suspicious and he refuses to help. However, when the criminals appear at the door as well, we realize that the main thug is the couple’s son, with who their relationship has festered. Kaia has given up hope and tells Jaan to let Darius in, but Jaan decides to remain impartial, therefore losing the respect of both ...
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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 People

Original title in Estonian: Inimestest

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

Meet the human bad and good.
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The Visitor

Original title: Muukalainen

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

This is the first full-length feature film directed by Finnish filmmaker Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää; the film was his graduation thesis. It is a mysterious story about betrayal, love and fidelity.

A boy lives with his mother in a lonely farmhouse amidst the woods. Now and then he goes to see his father who is in prison and the two of them share a common secret. Their life will change the day when a stranger arrives at their house, carrying a letter from the boy's father and being wounded by a bullet. Through the eyes of the silent boy we see the way life changes, the way spring becomes winter and the way hope develops to betrayal.
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Flyfog Village

Original title (in Estonian): "Kärbseudu"

2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Janek Karakatš