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The database provides information about 19 500 films, what are divided into nine main categories and plenty of sub-categories, in addition the feature films are classified also by genres.
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1968
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Leida Laius
The drama directed by Leida Laius is based on the play "Werewolf" by August Kitzberg, telling the story about love that will collide with superstition, jealousy and servility in a village during the times of slavery.
There are three children growing at Tammaru farm - one boy, Margus; and two orphan girls, Mari and Tiina. Tiina is lively and full of energy. Margus holds her very dear to him. Margus's parents want him to marry Mari instead as she is more their kind. Hotblooded Tiina is completely different from them and her mother was once executed for being a witch. Mari thinks that Tiina has bewitched Margus and cannot stand this, so she starts to publicly blame her stepsister for being a werewolf.
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1970
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Documentary, Nature
| Director:
Viivi Kraav
Views of nature and Estonia in summer with birds, flowers and butterflies.
Documentary focusing on colourful nature and various viewpoints to butterflies, beetles, caterpillars and reflections of water. Actor Andres Ots sings a few topical songs as well as reads the voice-over.
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2016
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Students film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
Vladislav Mukovnin
To escape from the hateful game, a boy agrees to help a young man to bring flowers to a lady, but a simple request makes everything go wrong.
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1966
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Grigori Kromanov
The first feature film directed independently by Grigori Kromanov is based on the novel "The Case of Andres Lapeteus" by Paul Kuusberg. According to the director, the film is telling about human responsibility, conscience and staying who you are even in most complicated conditions.
After a long night with his old fellow fighters, Andres Lapeteus regains consciousness in the hospital. How has confusion, bewilderment and alienation developed between those men who once fought together side by side? Is this the inevitable result of the Stalinist regime, the influence of his parvenue wife, or the effect of his personal cowardliness and conformism? How did it really happen what happened to Andres Lapeteus?
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2007
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Documentary
| Director:
Ergo Kuld
Does the list of schools based on formal results prove anything after all? The documentary tells about a small school - Misso Secondary School - that is the last one in the list.
According to the results of the final exams, Misso Secondary School has been losing the competition among Estonian high schools for years. Tallinn French Lyceum, Secondary School No 21, Tallinn English College and other elite schools have had the leading positions. How adequate are these results after all? What do the little „straw-heads“ (so were the pupils of Misso Secondary School called in a respectable publication) think of it? What do their teachers and tutors think? The film searches for the answers through the everyday life of a province school and philosophy. Are we ready to look inside ourselves and ...
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1981
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Julia Guteva-Sillart
Introduction of Kotka, the twin town of Tallinn.
Documentary about the town of Kotka. Information about its history and maritime affairs. Residents talk about their town. Opening celebration for the Lenin's bust.
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2017
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Students film, Short
| Director:
Andrijana Krčmar, Abdallah Sada
Architecture film shot on location at Kuke Guesthouse.
Sweet are the recollections of memories. Tiiu visits her childhood house that was recently rebuilt. The modern-look architecture still keeps some of her childhood memories.
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2023
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Documentary
| Director:
Heilika Pikkov
Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone.
Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone.
Stories of twelve people from Ukraine who suddenly had to leave their home, taking only the bare essentials and a cherished belonging that speaks to their life.
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2009
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Feature film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
Maria Avdjuško
Anecdotal story about a known intellectual who unexpectedly is given a new identity and during one night he will find out that he might actually need it in the future.
The protagonists of the anecdotal short film are Linnar Priimägi and Taavi Eelmaa; the deuteragonists of the film are Tuglas and Savisaar. Priimägi and Eelmaa perform the most provocative homoerotic scene in Estonian film history – a night full of wild gay sex. Supposedly, the film is based on true events. Not recommended for those under age and the faint-hearted!
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2007
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Feature film, Full length feature, Youth, Road movie
| Director:
Maiju Ingman
The road film for young audiences is the graduation thesis by Maiju Ingman (Tallinn University), telling the story of Aleksander, a young man graduating from the high school, of his weltschmerz and his self-discovery.
Aleksander is a talented young man who has no idea what to do with his life after graduating from the high school. Choosing a career, a family, a university degree, or joining the army seem out of question. It is like he had no interest in anything. Unfortunately, neither Aleksander's parents nor his friends can give him advice. For years, Aleksander has observed the way other people live their lives. This has led him to an understanding that he does not want to become one of them. He wants a different life. Only that he does not know what kind ...
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2023
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Students film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
Elis Rumma
Correctness-loving librarian Eve goes on a hunt for an unreturned book to prove her arrogant co-worker wrong.
Correctness-loving Eve and effortless Leida are colleagues and opposites, working everyday side by side at a small town library. During a casual wordgame between the two, prideful Leida ́s factually wrong answer about Numbats habitat upsets Eve. Unfortunately for her the book to end the debate is missing. Unanswered calls to the bookholder and smirky Leida sets her off on a hunt for the book. An absurd adventure to prove her co-worker wrong begins and takes unusual turns until the very end.
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2017
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Students film, Documentary
| Director:
Maris Kerge
The story about change, in a persons life. Hitting rock-bottom due to alcohol abuse. Finding an escape through religion.
Raivo is a simple man from Hiiumaa, whos life weered of a stable path, due to alcohol abuse. Film tells his story, about how with the help of religion he found his way back. Metaphorically he goes through the psychology pratice „wheel of life“ and it turns out that to this day he has achieved personal balance – the wheel turns without obstacles.
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2007
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Mati Viiul
Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.
Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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2009
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Mati Viiul
Documentary about Igor Tõnurist, activist of Estonian folklore movement.
Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, introduces folk instruments and tells about this publications on folklore. He explains the principles of wearing national costume and of folk music. Interviewed by film director Mati Viiul.
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1979
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Heino Pars
This is a stereoscopical film-concert about the State Academical Men Choir.
This is a stereoscopical film-concert about the State Academical Men Choir. We can hear the following songs:
P. Tchaikovski "Naple's Song"
V. Tormis "Singer"
O. Lasso "Echo"
V. Tormis "Litany of Thunder"
J. Brahms "Lullaby"
G. Ernesaks "Men, Let's Start Going"
V. Kapp "Northen Coast"
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1983
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Documentary
| Director:
Peet Peters
Arvi Kibuspuu, the only boatmaster of collective farm "Hiiu Kalur", builds a new boat.
According to a song lyrics, "This boat has not been made of bird bones ...". What is really the building process of a true sea boat? Arvi Kibuspuu, the only. boatmaster in the island of Hiiumaa, builds a boat and shares his professional skills. The boat he is building is a piece of handcraft - from the stern to the bow. The boatmaster meets his teacher, boatmaster Leopold Vakröm from the island of Saaremaa and shares his thoughts with him. Arvi Kibuspuu also meets Theodor Pruul and Elmar Aksli, fishermen of the collective farm. Voiceover by Sulev Nõmmik, in a ...
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2011
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Aleksandr Rachynskyi
An old man spends all of his time taking care of his paralyzed wife. She can no longer feed herself or perform any other actions. Since both of them are very old and the woman is most likely going to die soon,the Man decides not to leave her alone even in this moment and in a way makes their relationship immortal.
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2010
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Gadi Lübek
The story of a lonely man.
There is a ghost from the past who brings alive painful memories in the old and lonely man's mind.
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2016
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Drama, Romance
| Director:
Mart Kivastik
There are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who the other is. Viivi would like to run away and the man is sleeping like a log. Unlike Viivi and Andu themselves, the viewers know both very well. They know that Viivi has the worst day in her life and that Andu is a dweeb, but not completely hopeless; a rather good-hearted man.
Viivi, still on the young side, but lonely, discovers a strange man in her bed one beautiful morning. Panicking, the woman tries to reconstruct the events of the previous day in her head. It appears that it must have been one of the worst days in her life: an aching shoulder, being late for work, a diagnosis by her doctor, and, as a result of it all, an evening in the pub where she realises that you can be as neat and good as you like, but you still need luck…
The man who Viivi finds between the sheets in Andres, ...
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2011
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Jouna Keränen
”Kun Eletään Öisin” (eng. ”When You Live by Nights”) is a short fiction film, from the genre of drama, It depicts the life of the protagonist through both the narration and his actions, within the timespan of one day. The film consists of a main character, that appears on the screen most of the time and a minor character, that is shown at the end.
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2015
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Students film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Jürgen Moor
The film is about a young girl who falls victim to a lonely older gentleman. The two of them learn a lot of themselves as they take the
longest ride of their lives.
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2014
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Students film, Advertising/Promotion
| Director:
Rihards Bereza
This is an advertisement for the Estonian National Library, including various shorts of the unique interior as well as a saxophonist, violin player, skateboarder and a modern dancer.
This video is a call to action advertisement for the Estonian national library. It is an abstract, stylized piece that works as an overall image clip as well. Abstract, mysterious imagery of the building combined with individual artists, all coming together in the national library, "where culture lives".
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2007
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Feature film, Full length feature, Youth, Drama
| Director:
Rainer Sarnet
This is the second feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet telling the story about two girls in their teens searching for identity and discovering friendship and love.
Ann is a fifteen-year-old girl facing big changes in her life - she has a stepfather and soon her stepbrother will be born. However, Ann's mother is nervous and jealous, even towards her daughter. Ann won't get the reasons for endless arguments and worrying. When she vistits the satanists's website, she talks to someone named Seth about fulfilling wishes with the help of a very special prayer. Ann says the spontaneous prayer concerning her unborn stepbrother. When doctors discover a heart defect in the newborn, Ann is overwhelmed with fear and wants to take the prayer back so she will ...
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1983
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Documentary
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Jüri Müür
Documentary by Jüri Müür about organizing a political event in Estonian SSR.
Every month, the second Wednesday is the day of empty offices - the state political day is being held. The heads of political parties and government drive to every corner of the Soviet Estonia. The documentary follows the activities of one of those political days in 1983 that was the 43th in a row.
