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Attorney Monika Mägi

Original title: Monika

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ken Saan, Steven-Hristo Evestus

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career will argue.

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career, meet and argue. They are focused to talk about real-life arguments. Only the main character Monika can answer for our questions. All of this is happening outside of the courtroom playground, and our talks are mostly focused on life-related topics. The portrait story also sheds light on the human nuances in the court. From the counterpart Estonian top prosecutors and advocates will talk.
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Celebration

Original title: Prazdnik

2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called "Sorochinsky Fair"; after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. The film is structured like a work of literature, being made up of a number of interconnected stories. The full variety of the fair and beauty contest is presented from different angles and viewpoints: that of the festival organisers; the actor playing Gogol; the instructor from the local beauty school; the ...
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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

2019 | Experimental, Documentary, Portrait, Other categories | Director: Sten Haljak

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country. He inexplicably morphs into a psychedelic cowboy during a hypnosis session and begins another journey in his subconscious. A humorous attempt on finding a path in a documentary that also addresses viewers spiritual and transcendental reality, and renders out a surreal metaphor from behind and beyond the image. Involving two separate, but intersecting stories, while mixing experimental documentary and fiction.
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War on Boring Walls

Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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Class Reunion 2: A Wedding And A Funeral

Original title - Klassikokkutulek 2: Pulmad ja matused

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

The sequel to one of the most loved Estonian comedy films sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead.

This is a blunt comedy in the best sense with treasured Estonian actors, telling a story about life itself and much more. The sequel to film "Class Reunion" sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Henry "Genka" Kõrvits). This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead. It has been two years since the first Class Reunion film and our three friends have all reached new stages in their lives. The rock star Toomas has finally ...
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Pets and Berlin

Original title: Pets ja Berliin

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Taavi Arus

A story about a legend of Estonian punk scene Peeter Männiksoo aka Pasa-Pets who has been living for years in Berlin. It is a story about a man's survival in a big city, a story about loneliness, struggle and freedom. It's a poem about Pets and Berlin.

Bowie, who lived in Berlin in the seventies, describes his life in Berlin as “moving around in virtual anonymity... For some reason, Berliners just don't care.” Peeter and Berlin are partners that support one another. Peeter says that there are a lot of people like him in Berlin: “This place attracts people like me, because you can be your true self. Berlin doesn't judge you for who you are. Berlin accepts you the way you are. You don't see this in a lot of other cities. You won't see such attitude in Estonia!” Without a doubt, Berlin is Peeter's home ...
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The Last Prince

Original title: Viimane vürst

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy.

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy. Prince Volkonski with his respectable pedigree is an Estonian singer, actor, producer and translator. What is the price of public admiration and is there enough room for compromises when dedicating your life on creation? How to enjoy the flight of a free spirit when the problems of everyday life can strike at any moment? Besides the creational activity the documentary explores the role of the hero's always supporting wife Maria ...
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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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Cabaret

Original title: Kabaree

2012 | Documentary | Director: Gerda Kordemets

The 11th grade pupils of Saaremaa Grammar School give the special cabaret performance at the end of every year held already for the 23th times.

For already the 23th time in a row, the eleventh graders of Saaremaa Grammar School stage a big cabaret performance right before the Christmas that will also be later performed outside the school. Passionate documentary about the everyday life of Saaremaa Grammar School during the times of preparations for the Cabaret in 2011. The 23-year-old tradition. Life on the stage and offstage. Sweat, tears, blood. Falling in love and breakups. Indignation and victories. All this has to stay in a rehearsal room since the performance must be perfect. Every day, the Cabaret is performed by new eleventh graders, expressing the ...
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