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Weight of Light

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

The world of poverty, patriarchy and exploitation gets transcended by a rag-picker girl when she finds a discarded photo camera in a vast garbage dump yard of India

Surya, a teenage ragpicker, finds a camera on a huge garbage mountain in Delhi. The camera becomes her window to the untold stories of women surrounding her. When Surya's father forces her to get married, the camera turns into a tool of self-defense. The film walks the line between documentary and fiction and focuses on a community of garbage collectors who try to find their place in the world amidst garbage and scorching heat.
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Till Life Do Us Part

Original title in Latvian: Līdz dzīve mūs šķirs

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alise Linde

A story about a runaway bride who hitchhikes to a punk show.

The Bride is a 20-year-old girl running away from her wedding to go to her favorite punk band‟s last show. As she is hitchhiking to get to her destination she meets a humble, timid man with an odd soviet car. He takes her for a ride and on the way they get to know each other. When they stop at an inn at the side of the road the Bride has an encounter with a stranger which breaks down the emotional wall she has been trying to keep between herself and the man with whom she is traveling with. As ...
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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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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Destination To Be Happy

Original title: Sihtpunkt - olla õnnelik

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kertu Köösel

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.
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A Lady in Paris

Original title: Eestlanna Pariisis

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Drama directed by Ilmar Raag about two Estonian ladies in Paris - an elderly city woman and a plain woman coming from a small town who starts working for the elderly one. The human connection that arises from their relationship gives a new meaning to the lives of both women. Leading roles are played by the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau and Laine Mägi.

Anne lives alone in her small town apartment in Estonia. She accepts a job offer to work as a caretaker for an Estonian expatriate Frida in Paris. Modest small-town Anne finds out that Frida is rich, moody, and liberal-minded woman of the world who has spent almost all her life in Paris. Frida is against the fact that she is being taken care of. What's more - she dislikes Estonians and pretends that she won't understand Estonian language. It seems that the two women have nothing in common. However, they have probably been brought together in order something would change ...
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Etude of a Prayer

Original title: Etüüd palvest

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Siiri Timmerman, Jaan Kolberg

This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.

Generally, if people speak about convent in Pirita, they mean the ruins and many of them are surprised to discover that right there in Pirita, next to the old ruins, has been over ten years a fully operating Bridgettine convent. This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth. If during medieval the convent was an understandable part of social life then later, after the reformation, the tradition of a convent as an institution disappeared from Estonia and from our neighborhood. Today this ...
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Another

Original title: Teine

2005 | Feature film, Short, Musical film, Dance | Director: René Vilbre

Dance film about the people being in a love triangle. In order to free themselves from their personal prison, they have to understand what holds them back to be happy.

A love triangle between a prison chief, a female guard and a male prisoner neither takes them to the altar nor leads anyone to a romantic-tragic suicide but to the liberation from their personal prison. What kind of walls are there to break down by the protagonists? How to understand what is actually restricting us and taking us back to move along with our lives and being happy? It was filmed in Tartu prison and partially inspired by true events. The story has been choreographed by Icelandic Helena Jonsdottir who is known as a stage director and short film creator ...
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Punk and the Family

Title in Estonian: Punk ja perekond

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspar Kaljas

Daughter of the pioneers of Estonian punk rock Anu and Tõnu, 15-year-old Reginleif tells about her parents and punk.

Reginleif is an intelligent teenager girl whose parents have been separated for years. Her parents are not the most common people: both of them are the pioneers of Estonian punk rock - Anu and Tõnu Trubetsky. While moving between two homes and being often alone, Reginleif has become a young woman with strong and healthy self-consciousness.
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The Way to Nirvana

Original title: Teekond Nirvaanasse

2000 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

This story is about a young man, who want's to go behind the horizon...

This story is about a young man, who want's to go behind the horizon...
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