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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Phobos

Original title: Phobos

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Oleg Assadulin

A horror film directed by Russian filmmaker Oleg Assadulin telling the story about young people who go to a night club built in a bomb shelter and will be trapped in a mysterious labyrinth.

One rainy summer night seven young people gather in Phobos - a newly opened night club built in a former bomb shelter. Suddenly the mechanical doors of the night club close and the young ones find themselves being stuck in labyrinths without electricity and mobile connection. First, no one gets the seriousness of the situation; then, panic will seize them - is it possible to break free from the club of fear after all?
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Poll

The Poll; The Poll Diaries

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Chris Kraus

The feature film directed by German filmmaker Chris Kraus has been inspired by the memoirs of the director's great aunt of Baltic German origin, Oda Schaefer, where she talks about her youth in Estonia directly before the World War 1.

The feature film gives an unconventional description of a Baltic German estate in Estonia in early 20th century, in the crossroads of the German Empire and the Russian Empire. A beautiful yet menacing world is created by the ghostly manor in the sea, the scenery of that era and the soundtrack. The dramatic details as fetuses and human brain in spirit, operations and the bloodstained anarchist add angst and morbidness. For Estonian cinema audiences, it is especially important to witness the revival of the lost world of the Baltic Germans.
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Buratino, Son of Pinocchio

Original title: Buratino

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Musical adventure comedy is the second feature film directed by Rasmus Merivoo. It is based on the children's book "The Golden Key or the adventures of Buratino" by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film is a co-production of Estonia and Russia.

Buratino and his mother Maria Carlo live on the poor side of the town called GoodBad that is split into two by a wall. Buratino goes to an awful school. Most of his days are filled with acting fools and making music together with his friends Artemon, Pierrot and Toivo. Maria has not told her son the mystery behind his strange origin yet. Evil Carabas Barabas lives in the highest skyscraper of the rich part of the town and searches for the boy who has magic powers with what one can govern the world. The chase brings Buratino together with ...
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Shop of Dreams

Original title: Stiilipidu

2005 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The humorous drama directed by Peeter Urbla tells about three women running a costume shop and who want help people to fulfill their dreams. However, it is reality that makes the rules in their illusory world.

Alice, a costume designer, has left her job at a TV station that went bankrupt. Together with her friends seamstress Ada and make-up artist Jana they make up their minds to establish their own company. They hire a studio space in an old factory building, buy a costume storage on credit, and start clothe people in the costumes of their dreams. Alice, Ada and Jana are ready to contribute in any way to the progress of their company - including their energy, time, personal relationships and creativity. They manage perfectly well with fulfulling their clients' most original wishes; however, their ...
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The Febris

Original title: Febris

1997 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

Feature film debut by director Andres Puustusmaa, a fantasy sketch based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel"The Dwarf"– a story about dwarf in a man.

Film director Andres Puustusmaa has advised the audience to watch his film as a plotless poem composed by colours. The sketch full of fantasy is based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel "The Dwarf", telling about the dwarf hidden in a human soul. The dwarf as the embodiment of perversion is fed by estrangement, envy, narrow-mindedness, violence and the passion of manipulation. A human being starts to seek for salvation only when chaos has broken out.
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City Unplugged

Darkness in Tallinn

1993 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilkka Järvilaturi

The action film directed by Finnish filmmaker Ilkka Järvi-Laturi tells the story how the national gold reserve arrives at Tallinn after Estonia has regained its independence and how the local mafia has extensive plans to steal it. Soome režissööri Ilkka Järvilaturi märulifilm Eesti kullavarude jõudmisest Tallinna pärast taasiseseisvumist ja kohaliku maffia suurejoonelisest plaanist kuld röövida.

It is the year of 1991. The pre-war gold reserve of the Republic of Estonia is being sent back to its homeland from Paris. There are gold bars worth billions that are about to arrive at Estonian Bank after fifty years of concealment. The local mafia is planning a great gold robbery. Extensive blackout would help them to switch off all security systems - young electrician Toivo is offered a huge sum of money if he will cut off electricity in the whole city. Toivo's pregnant wife Maria tells him to accept the job. At the same night, she gives ...
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Come Back, Lumumba

Original title: Tule tagasi, Lumumba

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Aare Tilk

The family film directed by Aare Tilk is based on the story "A Tale About Rein" by Toomas Raudam. The film tells about the lost and the found, friendship, caring for each other, and the events of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The culture centre of a small Estonian town is the place where the local people gather - where schoolchildren come to see popular films of 1960 previewed by the newsreels imbued with Soviet ideology to, and where young people meet in cinema and at dancing nights and fall in love. Aurora, the new head of the culture centre, and Lumumba change the lives of Rein and his father who are crushed with grief. Together with their friend Elsa, the boys decide to introduce Rein's father to Aurora in order to make them feel less lonely. It will turn out that ...
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A Man Who Never Was

Original title: Inimene, keda polnud

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The period film directed by Peeter Simm is dedicated to those working at radio stations in Estonia. Events from the lives of Imbi Valgemäe, Mari Möldre and Ruut Tarmo are brought to the viewer. Based on the oral and written memoirs of radio and theatre people.

Imbi Tamm has grown up together with the sounds and voices of radio broadcasting. She becomes an adult during the 1940s - the cataclysmic years in Estonian history. When she starts her career as a radio voice with high hopes and optimism in Stalinist Estonia, she will collide with the reality of the era where people's fate, sufferings and happiness depend on current ideology and government. The film is dedicated to the memory of the radio voices that have been accompanied the lives of many generations.
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Näkimadalad IV jagu

1988 | TV feature, Series, TV feature | Director: Olav Neuland
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