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Between Covers

Original title: Hölma all

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Siim Tamm

A stoic man living in seclusion, reluctant to let go of his past is reminded why.

In the snowy and secluded Estonian forest, Marti lives his life through routine. Haunted by his past bad judgement, he has become distant and lifeless. Kalev, an old local shopkeeper and a friend to Marti, tries convincing Marti to let go of the past and move on. Due to an unexpected event and Kalev`s persuasiveness Marti finds himself on the verge of a new beginning. After his routine trip to the shop, Marti finds a young woman Irene at his doorstep. Marti, although hesitant, invites her inside for a tea. It doesn’t take Marti long to realize Irene is not ...
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Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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Roots: 40 Years Later

Original title: Juured: 40 aastat hiljem

2018 | Documentary | Director: Moonika Siimets

A story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.

My parents Tiina and Ülo have saved more stuff in their home throughout the years than they have space to live. Useless piles of clothes, old newspapers and dishes block the way to the dinner table or bed. This is a story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.
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Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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Letting Go

Original title: Lahtilaskmise lugu

2017 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Story about a young girl from orphanage who wants to let go of the shadows that haunt her past.

Our culture is based on stories. Stories make up our foundation. We can look at our lives as a story – our biography is our life story. Like the stories, some people are tragic and some are funny and some we do not understand at all.  But what happens when these stories shouldn’t be told? Is it possible to let go of a story, to give it up? Is it possible to make a film about a girl whose only desire is to be rid of her story and to forget it for good?  Ülo Pikkov's animated documentary is about ...
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Life in the Factory Basement

Original title: Elu kombinaadi keldris

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Triin Ruumet

At the end of the world there is a cafe where we all once will meet. The documentary tells a story of a person, the system that surrounds him and communication between these two parameters.

The story of a person, the system that surrounds him and the communication between these two parameters. The protagonist of the film, an electrician Ago Pettai of a South-Estonian hospital represents a very healthy anarchic lifestyle in the general system and in the medical system, that part of the structure that gives the possibility for that kind of anarchy amid great illness. The film poses a question: What it means to be well and is a healthy mental outlook somehow connected with it all?
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The Woman in the Picture

Original title: Naine pildil

2017 | Documentary | Director: Priit Valkna

Laurentsius and Parikas. Two artists and two eras. One house. Cherchez la femme....

The artist Lauri Sillak, aka Laurentsius, starts painting for his new exhibition in an unusual place – a vacant wooden house in the heart of Tallinn, in a house that has belonged to the creator of the art of film and photography in Estonia, Johannes Parikas and his wife Lilli. The Parikas name truly set the fashion in the interwar Republic of Estonia. Several movie theatres in Tallinn, the Estonia Films film studio, a famous photography studio in Tallinn’s Old Town, the first Miss Estonia competition, portraits of prominent statesmen, and the photographing of all of Estonia were all connected to ...
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