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Machina Faust

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust.

An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust. Maria’s career started at the Kuressaare Music School where she quickly realised that she wanted to be an artist. She landed at the Royal Danish Academy of Music because she’s always wished to have her music played but was forced to only play old, famous composers in Estonia. The musician’s journey in the film culminates with her piece ’Mass of Mary’, with the film observing the rehearsals and preparations for the premiere. The creative source of Maria Faust’s work is strongly tied to ...
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Symmetrical Face

Original title in Estonian: Sümmeetriline nägu

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Johan Huimerind

The author of the film researches the symmetry of his own face through his parents.

The author of the film researches the symmetry of his own face through his parents. Two distinct sides of the face are fundamentally different.
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Twin Turbo

Original title in Estonian: Topelt Turbo

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Romet Esko, Raul Esko

An action film about personality, respect and freedom.

Underappreciated twin sister cops swear to blow up the city, if anybody mixes up their names again.
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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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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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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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The Last Prince

Original title: Viimane vürst

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy.

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy. Prince Volkonski with his respectable pedigree is an Estonian singer, actor, producer and translator. What is the price of public admiration and is there enough room for compromises when dedicating your life on creation? How to enjoy the flight of a free spirit when the problems of everyday life can strike at any moment? Besides the creational activity the documentary explores the role of the hero's always supporting wife Maria ...
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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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Pharmacist

Original title: Apteeker

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaanis Valk

Ester, a good-tempered pharmacist living in Virtsu, has courage to be different. She loves nature, animals and solitude.

This is a story about a pharmacist in her late 50s who works in a small community. Unlike the other members of her community, the woman finds happiness in helping cats and other animals and not in drinking alcohol near the village shop nor earning mammon. She has no husband nor children and she actually does not want to have them. She likes her solitude and has courage to be different. However, this is "unacceptable" for the society.
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Beyond the Water

Original title: Teisel pool vett

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liia Sakkos