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Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... Tis diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives. It composes an analogue gospel of a ...
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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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Kaarel Kurismaa The Limits Of Timelessness

Original title: Kaarel Kurismaa ajatuse piirid

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

A film about a humble man, a legendary kinetic artist who influenced the Estonian public space, the childhood memories of several generations, and the experimental music scene.

A documentary about the Estonian artist Kaarel Kurismaa shows the viewer an insight into the world of artists. Kaarel changed his creative direction several times; he explored different artistic styles. Kaarel Kurismaa laid the foundations for Estonian kinetic and sound art. He is a highly versatile artist whose creative energy is divided between painting, sound, installation, monumental art, and film. On the crest of the avant-garde wave of the 1970s, he created several important sound and kinetic objects in Estonian art history. From the mid-1970s, Kurismaa worked as an artist, director, and cinematographer at Eesti Joonisfilm and Nukufilm. In ...
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Ferryman of the dead

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Middle aged painter battling deadly cancer. She puts her thoughts about life and death into her paintings.

Story of Krista Launonen who is an artist in Finland. She is a well known podcast host and a mother. The only thing strange about Krista is the fact that she lives with Myelooma. A cancer that is going to kill her within five years and she is okay with it. In the film we follow her process of preparing to die wile grieving her recently passed sister and wiriting her will.
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Blackbird

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Robin Marten Leppik

Robin Marten Leppik's documentary follows the creation and development of set design for the theatre through Johan Elm's production Musträstas.

An audiovisual experience showcasing how a set design comes to be, following each part of the process as Musträstas, directed by Johan Elm (artist Eugen Tamberg), comes alive.
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Leonardo from Randvere

Original title: Randvere Leonardo

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

The life of Endel Saarepuu (70) is filled with art. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work.

Endel Saarepuu was born to be an artist. No other role that life has offered for Endel, has ever lasted. The house, where his family was once supposed to live, has now become a home for hundreds or wooden sculptures, stained glass works and drawings. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work. A sketch on a piece of paper or the client's wish is just an impulse. The final result is dictated by the material and the working process. Natural phenomena affect wooden sculptures and people's thoughts change the meaning of ...
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant.

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant. In the morning, the guard has fallen to death from a high tower and several more people lose their lives in suspicious accidents. Investigating these events, Melchior's paths cross with a prostitute, a priest, a foreign artist and a mad heretic. The clues take him to the Pirita Convent, which gloomy vaults hide a dangerous secret buried in oblivion. At the same time, Melchior is troubled by the question of why his beloved Keterlyn suddenly breaks ...
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Nightwalkers

Original title in Estonian: Ööline

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Pilleriin Raudam

„Nightwalkers“ is an experimental short documentary by film student Pilleriin Raudam, which depicts one night in the city of Tallinn. With neo-noir cityscape and various characters the viewer moves through the night to the next morning.

„Nightwalkers“ depicts Tallinn, which gains a whole new look during the nighttime. While the streets are empty, the movie’s characters activate as each of them has their own connection with nighttime. Along with the sun rise the atmospheric darkness disappears. It is still the same city, but new in the daylight.
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