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Smalltown Miss

Original title in Estonian: Kolhoosi miss

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alexandra Pärn

The short film is made by second year film students. It is based on a Lilli Luuk's novella “Kolhoosi miss” following a story of two young girls, their friendship and growing up in a 1988 Soviet smalltown in Estonia.

Miina has grown up in a safe home environment. That can’t be said about her best friend, Liidia. Besides having a beautiful friendship and doing normal teenage things in the Soviet smalltown, there is some darkness to be faced. Everything begins to change when Liidia becomes influenced with a new arrival to town, a woman portraying what she aspires to be. A new, better and more confident version of herself, so that she could find a way out of her unsafe environment.
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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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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Pets and Berlin

Original title: Pets ja Berliin

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Taavi Arus

A story about a legend of Estonian punk scene Peeter Männiksoo aka Pasa-Pets who has been living for years in Berlin. It is a story about a man's survival in a big city, a story about loneliness, struggle and freedom. It's a poem about Pets and Berlin.

Bowie, who lived in Berlin in the seventies, describes his life in Berlin as “moving around in virtual anonymity... For some reason, Berliners just don't care.” Peeter and Berlin are partners that support one another. Peeter says that there are a lot of people like him in Berlin: “This place attracts people like me, because you can be your true self. Berlin doesn't judge you for who you are. Berlin accepts you the way you are. You don't see this in a lot of other cities. You won't see such attitude in Estonia!” Without a doubt, Berlin is Peeter's home ...
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Constructing Albert

Title in Estonian: Alberti leiutamine

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Laura Collado, Jim Loomis

Albert Adrià has all the ingredients of a creative genius. Playing a key role in the creation of elBulli, the greatest restaurant in history, wasn't enough. Escaping the shadow of his famous brother Ferran, Albert is seeking his own success.

The most important culinary revolution of modern times took place at elBulli, a restaurant in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. Ferran Adrià is the famous maestro people know, but behind elBulli’s success was also a hidden genius: Albert, Ferran’s younger brother. Four years after closing of elBulli, Albert has decided to become master of his own world, building 5 unique restaurants in the centre of Barcelona. Enigma, the jewel in the crown of this gastronomic empire, will prove to be his greatest hurdle. Will Albert escape the shadow of his famous brother and enter the Pantheon of great ...
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Heartdressers

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maris Kerge

A womans need for keeping herself up and to be kept up, no matter her age. A hairsaloon as a place to relief from the worries of life.

The legendary hairsaloon on Tähe street in Tartu has seen its clientells youth, maturity and elder days. In addition to the practical side – haircuts – it also fills s role as a social space. Despite the clients high age, there is still remaining a will to pepe oneself up.
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Destination To Be Happy

Original title: Sihtpunkt - olla õnnelik

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kertu Köösel

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.
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Estonian village in Ghana

Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kalle Käesel

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut, also called the gold of African women, growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA. It depends on the continuity of the volunteers as well as the local villagers' contribution to the world of business whether the activities started in a small Ghanaian village would thrive and thus offer ...
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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