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Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West. It recalls a time when art was larger and more important than life itself. But also a time, the like of which Estonian art has never seen and most likely will never see again. On one side, there are independent Soviet artists who lack not only the output but also the finances to complete their works. On the other side, there is the tempting West whose ambassadors (in the literal sense) take active interest in the Soviet underground art market. Selling one’s works to the West is a ...
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Vaba raha

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

A semi-satirical comedy about the absurdity of money, telling three loosely interconnected stories about crypto and the last few years when investing has become a form of entertainment and ordinary folk are trading in stocks and coins.

A semi-satirical comedy about the absurdity of money, cryptocurrency and the investment craze of the last few years when investing has become a form of entertainment and ordinary folk are trading in stocks and coins. It tells three loosely interconnected stories of a brash crypto entrepreneur (Miklós Bányai) who dashes through the last 10 years of crypto history, a loser-programmer (Märt Pius) who loses a password of a memory stick with millions in crypto coins, and a conservative banker (Ivo Uukkivi), who tries to balance his beliefs with the changing world and those of his crypto-trading teenage son.
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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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Wedding Officiant

2020 | Documentary | Director: Hõbe Ilus, Mihkel Oksmann

A day in the life of wedding officiant Lennys Negron – New Yorker, business man, loving father and widow – who has dedicated his life to helping couples exchange vows.

A day in the life of wedding officiant Lennys Negron – New Yorker, business man, loving father and widow – who has dedicated his life to helping couples exchange vows. Till death do them part.
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War on Boring Walls

Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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Ahto. Chasing A Dream

Original title: Ahto. Unistuste jaht

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaanis Valk

An adventurer who dreams big and wants to prove to the world that his dream is possible, finds himself in the middle of the war and in the turmoil of complex human relationships...

A documentary about Ahto Valter, a big dreamer, a great adventurer and sailor whose journey around the world on a sailboat that carries his name makes young boys yearn for adventure, young ladies write love letters and reporters follow him everywhere. Nobody knew what was this motivator that made him do it. A hero's restless mind, hardships over the years chasing his dream and failures on the way can be seen in the film that uses unique archive material to open up the cravings and challenges of an explorer from the previous century. A colourful journey around the world can ...
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Cartoon, Animation | 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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House of a Dream

Original title: Ühe unistuse maja

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

For most people ballet is dancing. For ballet dancers this is life!

Tallinn Ballet School has been the starting point of the dancers' careers since 1946. This film puts together a joint portrait describing a dancer's life in the eyes of different generations. The young students who have only just begun their studies and the graduates preparing for their final exams are all observed by former ballet stars who today determine the fates of people in the house where they also once started their journey. Whose dream will prevail and whose will die?
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Conversations in Non-existent Space

Original title: Kõnelused olematus ruumis

2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel

Documentary follows the searches for identity of creative people through experimental and improvisational music.

What is inspiration? Where does it come from and is it possible for it to be consciously evoked? The film speaks about the search for one’s identity through experimental and improvisational creation.
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