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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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The Possibility of Life in the Country

Original title: Elu võimalikkusest maal

2023 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Telia | Director: Liis Lindmaa

A romantic comedy about a couple who decide to leave their safe life in the city behind and move to the countryside to fix up an inherited mansion.

A romantic comedy about a couple who decide to leave their safe life in the city behind and move to the countryside. The Karuaugu Manor, which at first seems like a blessing, turns out to have unexpected facets. How easy is it to turn their life around? How can they manage in the countryside? And how much can a relationship endure when faced with masks, a crumbling manor and strange villagers?
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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Big Swamp

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2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

Vello followed an ancient call and settled on a swamp island, his neighbors became beavers, eagles and countless other species who have found a safe habitat in this cradle of nature.

Vello moved to the farthest swamp island of Emajõe-Suursoo 30 years ago. He left his previous labor life and the city to live in harmony with the mother of nature. There is still such a nature in Emajõe-Suursoo that is vanishing from the rest of the world. The vast delta allows the species to live on its own, without much human intervention, even though man has been seeking refuge and food supplements in the swamp for thousands of years. Vello makes a living from beekeeping and hunting, his life flows in the rhythm of nature.
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Lumi ja Leenu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

Silvi is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use. Unfortunately Silvi sees no future in keeping the cows, so the time has come to send her two beloved animals away.
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The Old Man and Gas Worm

Original title: Vanamees ja põrsauss

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi

A mysterious Snakepig kidnaps the Old Man's beloved pig! Now the Old Man has twenty-four hours to neutralize the pig before the whole village is blown up by a pig bomb. Or is it?

A mysterious Snakepig steals the Old Man's prized pig. Now the Old Man has twenty-four hours to defuse the pig bomb, or the whole village will blow up! Priidik asks the Old Man to start the rusty tractor to stop the Snakepig. But the Oldman has red the critics devastating review of the Old Man Film in the newspaper and does not want to commit himself to a new feature film. The old man prefers short sketches for a full-feature film. In the sketches, the Old Man has to give birth in the barn, we meet a scary monster that ...
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Raudvara. Anu Raud

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Erle Veber
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The Bash

Original title in Estonian: Simman

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Leo Vissak

Leo Vissak’s movie tells a story about a kid whose father hates fun.

A farmerboy boredto death, wants to go to the local village party. When his father forbids it, the boy turns to the local drunk for help. The drunk consoles Meelis the only way he knows how, until the father wakes to a son forever gone.
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Kratt

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

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...

When children are left at Grandma's without smartphones they’re bored to tears. That is until Granny finds them loads to do. She also tells them about a magical creature named KRATT that’ll do whatever its master says. When they stumble upon an instruction on how to build one they don’t hesitate. All they have to do now is to buy a soul from the devil...
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Treehouse Cult

2020 | Students film, Animation, Music video | Director: Aigar Vals

A guy wanders in the woods, looking for a connection with Nature and discovering its inner space through psychedelia.

A guy wanders in the woods, looking for a connection with Nature and discovering its inner space through psychedelia.
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