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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Bank Robbery

Original title: Pangarööv

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andrus Tuisk

The debut feature film directed by Andrus Tuisk is a road movie about a former prisoner who wants to start a new life. However, his fate offers him different options when he meets a teenage bank robber.

When a former fistfighter Madis leaves the prison, he feels he will get another chance in life. He has corresponded with a female friend who is waiting for him, and a peaceful life in countryside is at hand. Nothing can go wrong this time. Madis will be accompanied by his nephew who has something completely opposite in his mind. A game begins where both the weak and the strong get more and more opportunities; however, it is not known until the end who is going to be the winner.
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I Was Here

Original title: Mina olin siin

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Youth film directed by Rene Vilbre is based on the novel "I Was Here. The First Arrest" by Sass Henno, telling the rough story about the generation born in 1980s whose life experience is completely different than the one of their parents. The film centers on the most critical problems of the eighties' generation at the beginning of 21st century.

Seventeen-year-old Rass is involved in the group where drinking, drugs, broken families and skipping school are everyday things. Rass is convinced that he will get out of it, even if he can count only on himself - his mother is dead, he has drifted apart from his father, and his girlfriend Säde is unemployed. For love, faithfulness and trust, Rass is ready to get money from criminal sources. When Rass owes a large sum of money to his cheating business partner, the young man will accept an offer by drug dealer Olari. When after the first fifteen doses Rass is ...
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MC Battle - disputes

Original title: MC Battle - sõnasõjad

2008 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Mihkel Ulk

MC Battle is the annual big event among Estonian hip-hop community - young rap artists enter a competition in order to find out who is the best one in the field.

MC Battle, the event of the year in Estonian hip-hop scene, can be compared to martial arts, to verbal cannon shooting. It is probably quite an extraordinary phenomenon, a folklore event where the word is a weapon and where the best versifiers try to outperform each other. The rhymes are often very offensive yet very witty. The possibility to become a famous rap artist attracts many odd personalities.
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The Wish Tree

Original title: Soovide puu

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Paakspuu

The first full-length feature film directed by Liina Paakspuu gives a cartoon-like description of the way the dreams and reality of common people clash. In order to escape this, one has to have confidence in themselves and some luck.

Liina comes to the city while hoping to find opportunities to start her own life there. To work as a cashier in the supermarket is definitely not Liina's dream job but she won't fit for those her relative Ave can offer her. Liina meets more and less strange people at her work and in the dormitory - and all of them have got wishes. Saara, Liina's neighbour, says that somewhere there is a tree of wishes - but how to recognize it among all other trees? And how can one realize what is the thing they wish the most? Liina ...
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186 Kilometres

Original title: Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

The pitch-black comedy directed by Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk about well-known Estonian actor Jan Uuspõld. Having reached a dead end with his life, Jan starts a dramatic journey full of adventures from Tallinn to Tartu. Numerous public figures in Estonia participate in the film, including the president of the country.

Jan Uuspõld is a talented actor who is not up to scratch due to his problems with alcohol. He makes up his mind to stop taking clownish roles and accepts a serious part in a play at Vanemuise theatre instead. His journey from Tallinn to Tartu becomes an unusual and in a way exaggerated voyage depicting the life and mentality of contemporary Estonia through various human natures, attitudes and ways of thinking. Next to the fictional characters numerous well-known Estonian public figures participate in the film, either as themselves or as performed by actors or other celebrities. The story of ...
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A View from the Mountain

Original title: Vaade mäelt

2007 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Edvard Oja

Salla, population 150, with its own school, ploughed fields and well-maintained homes. This place reflects the culture of the rural folk of Estonia and their everyday activities.

One of the main characters of The Power of the Hill is the village of Salla, population 150, with its own school, ploughed fields and well-maintained homes. This place reflects the culture of the rural folk of Estonia and their everyday activities. The other main character is tourism businessman and village activist Hando Kuntro. In this film, the viewer sees the story lines of the two main characters proceeding in parallel. On the one hand, life in the village of Salla: how new people have come to live in this little village, how Shrovetide or Christmas are celebrated, and how ...
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

The monument of the Bronze Soldier in Tõnismägi, Tallinn denoted the symbol of occupation for half a century for Estonian people, but for the Russian-speaking local residents the monument marked the victory over fascism. In April 2007 the Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the government of the Republic of Estonia decided to move the Bronze Soldier monument from central Tallinn to the Defence Forces military cemetery due to the fact that the statue had become a source of tension. As a result, a violent chaos bursted out in Tallinn. The documentary by Kanal 2 gives an overview about the events ...
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Dragging to Dance

Original title: Ursula kisub tantsule

2007 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Mattias Naan
Jonathan from Australia

Original title: Jonathan Austraaliast

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

Documentary directed by Sulev Keedus about the harsh daily life of people living in a small place called Mustjala, the island of Saaremaa; about the construction of a deep port at the coast of Saaremaa; and about the arrival of the bright white German cruise ship.

Residents of a bright green house in Mustjala, a small place in Saaremaa, tell about their hard life - most of them are constantly drunk. A few kilometres away, a great deep port is being constructed where a huge German cruise ship Lili Marleen lands, accompanied by fireworks and salute. German tourists can watch the performances of wedding games in Mustjala. However, construction of the port and the arrival of the white cruise ship won't change anything in the lives of local people. The residents of the green house will stay friends with beer and vodka. The documentary reveals a ...
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