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In a quiet summer paradise, local holidaymakers meet international artists.
'My father rests in peace, but he always said that winning is the most important thing.'
The invisible life of Tallinn, what comes alive while the city sleeps.
A group of Russian-Estonians navigates the delicate balance between cultural identity and integration, exploring the sacrifices and adaptations required to find acceptance while remaining true to themselves.
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
Village tough guy was abducted by aliens. Now he’s back. Watch out, woke pussies!
Documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in the last year and a half of his term in office - as he grapples with the complexities of world politics and his private life.
After her daddy’s death, Karmen commits an atrocious act against her half-brother and must now face the dark void of the universe, which can only be filled with love
In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.
When Heiki, who has inadvertently passed away at a house party, meets his recently deceased grandfather on the beach of the dead, the young man must find money for the boatman to help his grandfather to the underworld.
Three sisters – Liis, Karin and Jane – have all reached a different breaking point in their lives. One fateful summer night reveals all secrets and feelings these three have never dared to admit.
A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.
Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...
A mysterious powder ruins a rave experience for three unknowing souls.
Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.
The end of one act is the beginning of another. The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes.
Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.
"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.
Story about family club Kerro in the countryside in middle of Estonia.
When 15 year old Sander falls prey to an almost fatal bad joke, he has to decide whether to try and break away from his determined social status, or conform and accept his role in the group.
A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison.
This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.
A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.
The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.
Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.
An optimistic anti-western about the possibility to attain the inscrutable and benevolent indifference towards all mundane affairs even here, in the midst of the pointless and sad life of contemporary Europeans.
Human beeing is the slave of his imagination.
Philosophical meditation on the nature of an artist. Who is an artist - a creator or just another layabout?
Media student Maria Kiviranna's poetic short documentary follows the day before the New Year and the following morning in Tallinn.
Youth film directed by Rene Vilbre is based on the novel "I Was Here. The First Arrest" by Sass Henno, telling the rough story about the generation born in 1980s whose life experience is completely different than the one of their parents. The film centers on the most critical problems of the eighties' generation at the beginning of 21st century.
One night weird figures gather on the Karahundzhi Plateau. They are the figures of God created by Man in different times and cultures. According to Tibetan monks, writing down all the names of God will bring about the end of the world.
Life of four young persons with different social background in today's Estonia, right before the local independence day, February 24, 2003.
Documentary directed by Mark Soosaar about the island of Kihnu, its residents and the social problems of the local society.
Johnny is very fond of Sunday.
Celebration of the opera singer Ida Loo-Talvari's 40th anniversary on stage, held in Gothenburg in March 1960. The jubilarian and various choirs perform at the concert that follows. After that people will gather for the festive dinner and dance.