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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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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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Kalinovski Square

Original title: Плошча

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Juri Haštševatski

Belarusian director Juri Hashtshevatski's documentary about the presidential elections in Belarus in 2006, the resistance by opposition and dictator Lukashenko's dirty tricks.

In March 2006, Aleksandr Lukashenko wins the Presidential elections in Belarus according to official reports, winning 82,5% votes. Waiting for a change, the opposition reacted and disagreed with the validity of election results. The crowd mainly consisting of young people and students gather at the central square in Minsk in order to protest. Filmmakers combine the pieces of various opinions while comparing different historical events; mocking the dictator's arrogance, patronizing attutude and behaviour; admiring the courage and dedication of the young generation. The documentary aims at reaching the real events going on in the country located in the heart of ...
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Little Lilly

Original title: Plekkmäe Liidi

1995 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt

Little Lilly starves herself to protest her father's contradictory stance against flies.

Adults have labelled everything in this world into good and bad, useful and unnecessary. Flies, for example, are an extremely boring and unpleasant phenomena, better to be killed off. Little Lilly has decided to stand up for the flies. She even presents a scientific tractata, arguing pro and contra. In protest against her father’s activities Lilly starts a hunger strike. In result the little girl becomes even less, falls into the vacuum cleaner, from there to dump and rather perilous situations. But then, it is the flies who come among others to save the girl and a happy ending of ...
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Living-Room

Original title: Elutuba

1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

Film about conflict between young and old generations.

Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. he lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather’s fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. ...
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Friend of Songs

Original title: Laulu sõber

1961 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilja Fogelman, Reet Kasesalu

The lyrical comedy directed by Ilja Fogelman tells the story of an authoritarian head of a collective farm, unable to understand the value of folk culture.

Tõnu, student of agronomy, is a trainee at a flourishing collective farm. He finds out that there are many talented singers there among whom there is Malle with a specially beautiful voice. However, the local community club is closed and the singing ground has been turned into a pasture. Malle's father is the manager of the collective farm and considers singing a waste of time. When the collective farmers hear about Tõnu's conducting skills, they will act against the manager's will. The big song festival is going to be held soon and people want to go there. Preparations of the ...
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Rocks Under Water

Original title: Veealused karid

1959 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Viktor Nevežin

The film directed by Viktor Nevezhin is based on the play "Where Are You Headed, Comrade Director?" by Aadu Hint, telling about the conflicts that the head of a collective farm is facing in his life and at work caused by the ruthless morality of Estonian pre-war society.

Tõnis Hoopkaup, head of the fishing collective farm, receives two significant presents for his wedding day - a new trawler and a cigarette case with the image of an anchor. Tõnis hopes to go to deep-sea fishing with his new ship and get ahead of the competing collective farms. The cigarette case reminds him of his pre-war dreams and disappointments. Tõnis is married to Riina but he is attracted by Lidia who looks like someone he was in love with long time ago and whose father was once known as "the king of the fishing village". Tõnis believes that ...
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