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Portugal

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Lagle

Lauri Lagle's first feature film is profound and smooth like a summer's night. It is a physical progression and a mental journey towards something other than a mere geographical location on a map.

Karina and Martin are in a pleasant relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviour can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it's this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question - is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost. The characters in the film are looking for a place of love and understanding in the world. Their journey is playful, mellow and thoroughly human. It ...
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Mihkel Raud learns to swim

Original title (in Estonian): "Mihkel Raud õpib ujuma"

2017 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Veiko Piirsalu
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The Days That Confused

Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

The 27-year- old protagonist Allar moves from one provincial party to another, meeting colorful characters and finding himself in evermore confusing circumstances. The amounting tension and absurdity of surrounding events lead Allar to give serious thought to his life. What follows is a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia to finally discover meaning in oneself.
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Waves and vibes

Original title: Lained ja võnked

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Veermäe, Marianne Kõrver

An eternal opposition of fine and crude matter has penetrated the marriage of two people. It is a poetic story about cosmic vibrations, split cabbages and the possibility of love.

An elderly couple married for four decades has decided to divorce in their golden years – the wife's path has taken her to the waves of God and cosmic energy, but the husband stays in the iron clutch of science. World views have clashed, an eternal opposition of fine and crude matter has penetrated the marriage of two people. It is a poetic story about cosmic vibrations, split cabbages and the possibility of love.
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Writer's life

Original title: Kirjaniku elu

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Tõnu Aru, Eve Ester

The documentary introduces writer Arvo Valton and meetings with him in 2008-2014.

The recurring theme in the documentary lies in brief meetings with writer Arvo Valton and his companions at various moments in his life. The filmmakers have recorded the writer's birthday party in the Writers' House, Tallinn; his home in Märjamaa; and his conversations with Sirje Kiin. Valton explains his world views and tells about his life as a writer. Valton's wife Tiina Vallikivi has always been supportive and understanding, a true fairy of the big family. Writing is Arvo Valton's passion and freedom.
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Written in Water

Original title (in Estonian): "Vette sündinud"

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ave Lutter

Documentary film “Written in Water” tells a story about Bruno Nopponen, who has dedicated his life to swimming. He left his professional career as a swimmer when he was in the top, but every new stage of life keeps bringing him back into water. He has conquered almost every goal he has set for himself. He has won more championships and medals that he can carry. Will he manage to keep up the race against competitors, time and most importantly himself.
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Villa Antropoff

2012 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?
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Old fish

Original title: Vanad kalad

2010 | Documentary | Director: Triinu Ojalo, Katrin Maimik
Staar maakas

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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