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Werefoxes and Undead

Original title: Libarebased ja kooljad

1998 | Students film, Short | Director: Rainer Sarnet
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The Febris

Original title: Febris

1997 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

Feature film debut by director Andres Puustusmaa, a fantasy sketch based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel"The Dwarf"– a story about dwarf in a man.

Film director Andres Puustusmaa has advised the audience to watch his film as a plotless poem composed by colours. The sketch full of fantasy is based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel "The Dwarf", telling about the dwarf hidden in a human soul. The dwarf as the embodiment of perversion is fed by estrangement, envy, narrow-mindedness, violence and the passion of manipulation. A human being starts to seek for salvation only when chaos has broken out.
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City Unplugged

Darkness in Tallinn

1993 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilkka Järvilaturi

The action film directed by Finnish filmmaker Ilkka Järvi-Laturi tells the story how the national gold reserve arrives at Tallinn after Estonia has regained its independence and how the local mafia has extensive plans to steal it. Soome režissööri Ilkka Järvilaturi märulifilm Eesti kullavarude jõudmisest Tallinna pärast taasiseseisvumist ja kohaliku maffia suurejoonelisest plaanist kuld röövida.

It is the year of 1991. The pre-war gold reserve of the Republic of Estonia is being sent back to its homeland from Paris. There are gold bars worth billions that are about to arrive at Estonian Bank after fifty years of concealment. The local mafia is planning a great gold robbery. Extensive blackout would help them to switch off all security systems - young electrician Toivo is offered a huge sum of money if he will cut off electricity in the whole city. Toivo's pregnant wife Maria tells him to accept the job. At the same night, she gives ...
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Living-Room

Original title: Elutuba

1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

Film about conflict between young and old generations.

Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. he lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather’s fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. ...
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Brides of Death

Original title: Surmamõrsjad

1990 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Tauno Kivihall

It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp.

Based on a ballady by an Estonian poet Marie Under. It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp, because enemies have killed their fiance's and devastated their land. The action of the film is played in controversary sequence - the re-meeting with their fiance's in the finale of the film acquires meaning of resurrection.
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The Town of Honeymakers

Original title: Meemeistrite linn

1983 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.
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Woman Heating the Sauna

Original title: Naine kütab sauna

1978 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The monodrama directed by Arvo Kruusement is based on the novel "Winter Holiday" by Villem Gross. The film tells the story of Anu Soldam, a working class woman, during a few winter days while she is being told by her boss to go to the countryside to heat the sauna for foreign guests.

On a snowy winter day Anu Soldam comes from town to the summerhouse belonging to the company she works for in order to clean up the place and heat the sauna for bosses and foreign guests. Instead of having a few days winter holiday, Anu will face the biggest challenge of her life. The farmhouse in the neighbourhood was once the home for a happy family - Anu, her husband Tõnis and their little daughter. Now that Anu and Tõnis are divorced, they will meet again at the funeral of Aita, the old woman who had lived in the same ...
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Daisy Petal Game: Tattoo

based on the short novel "Gipsies" by Kalju Saaber

1977 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

Short film directed by Peeter Simm based on the short story "Gypsies" by Kalju Saaber. Artistic director of the film Andrei Tarkovsky.

Young man Margus falls in love with gypsy girl Zoritsa and is ready for everything to prove his feelings. When the girl has complaints about the local Don Juan, a dairyman, Margus takes revenge but gets miserably kicked in his teeth. Margus's father, a local constable, chains his son. However, Margus breaks himself free and grabs a gun. Zoritsa's little brother finds Margus to hide behind the dairyman's window and shares words of wisdom that will make Margus change his mind.
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Time to Live, Time to Love

Original title: Aeg elada, aeg armastada

1976 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

Drama about a young woman whose life is saved by a doctor. When they meet, she will rediscover the meaning of life, death and love. Directed by Veljo Käsper.

Debora and Silver get into a serious car accident after a romantic night spent together in a summer house. Silver picked up a slight injury, Debora's life is in danger and the doctors say there is no hope for her. Doctor Melts sees an opportunity in transplantation of dying Debora's kidneys to save the life of professor Talvik who has a few weeks to live. However, professor proposes a treatment for Debora that will exclude transplantation. The truth about the price of her life will change Debora's world.
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Indrek

Original title: Indrek

1975 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mikk Mikiver

The first feature film directed by Mikk Mikiver is based on the play "Man and God" staged by Voldemar Panso in 1962 in Estonian Drama Theatre. The story is based on the second part of pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton Hansen Tammsaare.

Indrek Paas studies in Maurus private grammar school and is the tallest and oldest boy in his class. This does not seem to interest Mr Maurus though. An Estonian boy must get an opportunity to study if he really wants to. However, it turns out that it is not the most important principle at that school. In fact, there is no principle that cannot be escaped under certain conditions here. Indrek gets to know truths that may turn out to be wrong, and lies that may lead to truth. Indrek meets a girl whom he can give a name himself ...
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