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Talvine kiusatus

2022 | Other categories | Director: Marko Lillemägi
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Gentle Warriors

Original title (in Lithuanan): Švelnūs kariai

2020 | Documentary | Director: Marija Stonytė

A girl becomes a warrior in the military- and her own life.

Documentary by Marija Stonytė takes us on the journey of a girl becoming a warrior in the military and in her own life. A few years ago military conscription for men was reintroduced in Lithuania. Simultaneously, there were a number of young women who decided to voluntarily register for military service. We follow 3 of these girls for 9 months as they live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base. Three girls – three totally unique characters, come from very different social backgrounds. One joined the army with the aim of starting a new life, another - to ...
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Teofrastus

2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Sergei Kibus

Story of a cat, looking for a place to call home.

A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life at a train station. One day, he is offered a home by a family living in a nearby countryside house. However, the happy life is short-lived when the cat is taken to the big city and gets lost on the streets. Will Teofrastus find his way back to happiness?
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Roots: A Poem About Love

Original title: Juured: Poeem armastusest

2018 | Documentary | Director: Nora Särak, Dominik Krutsky

It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love. It was my first time truly understanding the pathetic feeling of yearning. This poetic collage is my attempt at sharing my thoughts and the situations that have recently led me to them.
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Snowbirds

Original title: Kliimapagulased

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

The Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series have made Ave Nahkur one of the best known naivist artists in her homeland. For years she and her partner Imre have run an art café in Raudoja and been active in the field of tourism and art. Lively and straightforward Ave hates cold and dark winter and the depression that comes with it. At one moment things have gone so bad that she decides to make a turn in her life and move to a mountain village in La Gomera, one of the Spain's Canary Islands. Making a new ...
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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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Ice

Original title: Jää

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

A father and son story set on the enchanting ice road across the frozen sea.

Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea. On the vast snowy desert past memories collide with the present.
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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The Snow Queen

Original title: Lumekuninganna

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Marko Raat

The winter fairy tale for grown-ups written and directed by Marko Raat is based on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.

A woman living in the ice castle coaxes a young boy to live with her. The boy is so enchanted by the beauty of the woman and the ice kingdom that he will soon forget about the real world. She hides her secret from the boy, not telling him the reason why she lives in cold. The romantic drama tells about the beginning of all-powerful love. The visually fascinating "The Snow Queen" has been mostly filmed in an ice-cream storage building where a special film set was built. The ground was flooded with enormous amount of water that was ...
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The Return of The Musk Ox

2008 | Popular Sciences | Director: Vassili Sarana