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Auster

Original title: Auster

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kadri Kõusaar, Maximiliano Schonfeld

Two lonely young people are travelling together in the bleak Patagonian desert, searching for themselves and one another.

Two lonely young people – an ultra-religious exorcist Agustina and a shy sailor Lucas meet in Río Gallegos, Patagonia. Agustina is the first woman in the south to talk to Lucas… Clumsily, he tries to seduce her. She resists. Lucas is insulted and runs towards the immense Patagonian desert. Agustina follows him… ‘Auster’ comes from the Latin, and means the south wind. In the Argentinian context it’s the coldest, harshest wind, which constantly blasts across the desolate plains of Patagonia. This bleak, merciless climate also shapes and moulds the local people. Can these two - Agustina and Lucas - find a ...
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Flowers from the Mount of Olives

Original title: Õlimäe õied

2013 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.

Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in Mount of Olives, lives the 82 year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya. Although inside the convent’s cement walls the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the 20 years that Mother Ksenya has spent there have passed by in a flash. In the hierarchy of the nunnery she has now achieved the second-to-last level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell the story of her life for the very last time.
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Guardian of the soul

Original title: Hingevalvur

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld

One woman with two controversial professions - a criminal investigator and a religious minister.

Some people know Eve Kruus as a strict criminal investigator, other people have learned that she is a merficul religious minister. Yet, there are people who happen to meet Eve in both professions. Eve changes her role of religious minister into a complete something opposite when she puts on her police uniform and istead of spreading the Word of God she starts to write down sins in the interrogation record. Eve guards the soul of a suffering person as well as the dignity of an injured party - she fights against evil.
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The Pigeons

Original title of the film: Tuvid

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Kadriann Kibus
The Possibility of an Island

2012 | Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver
The Russians on Crow Island

Original title: Varesesaare venelased

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

Portrait documentary by Sulev Keedus about the scum of the Russian community in Narva - the young people with asocial background who lack courage, hope and will to get out of their hopeless situation.

The Crow Island on the River Narva was the place where Krenholm Manufacturing Company was founded in 1857. The company provided work for 13 000 employees during its best days. The textile factory was closed for good in 2010. During the past few decades, more than ten thousand workers have lost their job. Younger Russians, the descendants of the generation of Krenholm employees, living in Narva tell their dreary story of life. Their harsh monologues tell about abandonment, street life, alcohol, drugs and prison. Most of them have grown up with severe mental and physical traumatic experiences. They have no ...
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Connected to the Monastery

Original title: Kloostriga seotud

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.

In front of the main gates of the Pskov-Caves Monastery there is a modest wooden St. Barbara Church where Father Jevgeni has served as a priest already for several decades. He baptizes, weds, blesses, remembers, hears confessions, calculates the congregation's money and manages the church. Jevgeni holds around two hundred funeral ceremonies a year. Death is one of the main characters in the documentary; however, another main subject of the film is life - the one lived by Jevgeni and the people who are connected to him and the church. There is nun Olga who has kept a hairdresser's profession ...
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Jaan from Hell

Original title in Estonian: Põrgu Jaan

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk
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Letters to Angel

Original title: Kirjad Inglile

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The drama directed by Sulev Keedus tells about Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja who has been sent to the Afghanistan War many years ago and who has converted to Islam there. While returning to Estonia, he will face a completey different kind of war.

Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja has been fighting in Afghanistan; 21 years later he returns to Estonia to his father's funeral. He has converted to Islam and his only connection to his native land is the sound of his daughter Angel's crying that he heard a long time ago on the phone. Jeremia starts to search for his family. The daily life - if this can be called life in the first place - of the dusty and abandoned town is being run by women since men are almost gone. Nevertheless, the women seem to hope that Jeremia will be able to ...
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Singing Nadezhda

Original title: Laulev Nadežda

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.

The documentary tells the story about Nadezhda who has moved to Estonia from Russia; for her, the most important people are her loving husband and nine children. Both Nadezhda and Rustam, the father of her children, are deeply religious and think God is present in everything and everybody. Her songs are extremely heartfelt and full of love towards God; she sings about her children and Estonia, love and God in the tunnel of Viru Centre and earns extra money.
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