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Sander's Documentary

Original title: Sanderidokumentaalfilm

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.
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Hero of the Future

Original title: Tuleviku kangelane

2022 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Match fixing and corruption are dragging down Rwandan football club – will young Estonian coach save them?

A young Estonian football coach takes a dive into the unknown. Up until that day Jaanus Reitel had been coaching children, but now takes up an unexpected offer and travels to Rwanda, Africa. His task is to save a first division team from falling out of competition. Completely unfamiliar culture, regular match fixings and raging corona virus make a though goal even harder to reach. Is it possible to stay afloat in these circumstances? Turns out it's not as corruption becomes the last drop in his glass. Jaanus returns to homeland after years abroad and starts working for a top ...
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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Betti Alver

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn (Ernst) Lillemets

Documentary film sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities - Betti Alver.

Enn Lillemets authored film about his close friend and soul mother Betti Alver. Through personal memories and Betti’s creative masterpieces, Lillemets sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities. Actress Saara Nüganen, and poets Viivi Luik, Eeva Park and Mats Traat accompany him in this film.
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Scissors

Original title: Käärid

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Margus Talvik

Young woman meets different kinds of men in her own built van, where she serves as a barber in every part of Estonia.

Although Teresa Liivak has settled down nine different places, she calls a white Ford Transit her real home. Teresa rebuilt her van to be a barbershop on wheels. On her journey she meets most different kinds of men. If you have all the freedom in the world, then you must take action to make the most of it.
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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