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Urban Tundra

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Robi Uppin, Maria Kivirand

The short documentary follows the life of Kopli's soup kitchen during Christmas 2010, when a powerful snowstorm "Monica" hit Tallinn. The film is about faith and the fight against hope and despair.
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The Mission of a Rom

Original title: Mustlase missioon

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Georg Vinogradov has an important mission: to bring the Romanians to Christianity and improve the reputation of the nation for Estonians.

50-year-old Romanian Georg Vinogradov is a priest in Võru Pentecostal Church. He reached religion through rough personal experiences, including being a prisoner in Patarei Prison, being sick with cancer and fighting this. Georg is a father of eight children. His home is his church - half of his house, an old wooden building, serves as a church. Georg attempts to bring Romanians closer to Christianity in order to purify their souls and improve their reputation among the local people. The documentary juxtaposes Romanian traditional lifestyle and Christian world view declared by Georg as well as contemplates on the dilemma of ...
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Time is here

Original title: Aeg algab siin

2010 | Documentary | Director: Marje Jurtšenko

The film follows four children throughout their schoolyear as well as documents time and Estonia.

Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are seven years old and will start going to school. They live in different spots in Estonia - Tallinn, Tiduvere, Tudulinn and Võru. They are all different children with different schools and teachers. Yet, time is the same for all of them, passing by the same way. Where will they be at the end of their first schoolyear?
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Engagement in Kihnu island

Original title: Kihnu kosjad

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

Engagement according to the traditions and customs of Kihnu island, Estonia. The documentary introduces the engagement rites in their most natural environment.

Kihnu is a very small island in the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Meelis and Raili will get married soon. They decide to follow their ancestors' traditions, customs and rites and plan their wedding party accordingly. All traditional wedding-related activities and rites are accompanied by music, dancing and colourful jokes common to the islanders.
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24/1 or PG-7

Original title: 24/1 ehk alla 7-aastastele keelatud

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

Year by year, Santa Clause's working day has resembled a fairy tale where both children and adults participate with excitement and joy.

It is December, the time when it is impossible to reach an agreement because time moves at a different pace. However, there is somebody to whom one can call in order to fix a date and be sure that he will be there. This person is Saunta Claus. More than twenty families have been marked in his calendar for appointments.
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Once a year

Original title in Estonian: Kord aastas

2004 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Tanel Toom
Miriam's Gnome

Original title: Miriami Jõulupäkapikk

2003 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

Helpful Miriam builds the Gnome a cart so that it would be easier for him to bring presents. But do the gnomes really exist...?

Helpful Miriam builds the Gnome a cart so that it would be easier for him to bring presents. But do the gnomes really exist...?
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The Trivia of Life

Original title: Elu pisiasjad

2003 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Documentary by Dorian Supin about a man at the end of his/her days, about dignified aging, life in Paunküla nursing home; about the memories, dreams and daily life of the elderly residents.

Life in Paunküla nursing home follows its daily pattern. Yet, every routine activity is a special event for the elderly residents: waking up in the morning, having meals, taking medicines. Daily routine is brightened up by social gatherings, birthdays, and, of course, by Christmas. The elderly women, each of them being a personality, are living now in a forgotten world and their close ones are replaced by caretakers, nurses and doctors. Those who still remember tell about their childhood; those who don't are slipping away to the world unattainable for others. The happiness of the end of one's days lies ...
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Heart of the Bear

Original title: Karu süda

2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.

The magic of Siberia brings hunter Niika back to the lands of Nordic people. Despite of the hospitality of the Nganasan people it turns out that Niika's destiny is not in his own hands but will be determined by the forces of nature. He can rediscover himself only when he is ready to experience passion and pain, desperation and unforgivable sin. He must meet his own shadow, to love a woman for whom no one else is left, and to kill his friend. The only way to escape his fate is to get the heart of the bear.
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Ladybirds' Christmas

Original title: Lepatriinude jõulud

2001 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest.

Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest. The animated film "Ladybirds' Christmas“ is made for school age children.
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