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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Dawn

Original title (Latvian): Ausma

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Has betrayal in Soviet time become an act of heroism of modern times?

This film is based on a Soviet propaganda story (most likely false) about “Young Pioneer” (Soviet equivalent to the "Boy Scout") Morozov who denounced his father to Stalin’s secret police and was in turn killed by his family. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to become informers, even at the expense of family ties. In the Soviet Union this story was a subject of many books, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, opera and also the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein. In our film 75 years later we ...
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The Engine Diabolic

Original title in Estonian: Põrgu ekspress

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

Famous writer, Anton Tamm, is travelling by train. He is on his way to the city to get a life achievement award. On his trip he’s forced to share a cabin with a prisoner who’s travelling to get his sentence from the court. They talk and the conversation leads them to some suppressed memories, which tie them together closer than we would expect.
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In the Air

Original title: Õhus

2009 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Martinus Daane Klemet

The telecommunication between the wolf and humans leads to a situation where the law of gravity changes to the unknown.

A television set attached to a small parachute falls through a glass ceiling and changes the way people live and let themselves be influenced. From the small magical screen, practically everything can be transferred until a wolf starts taking things into his own paws and changes the laws of gravity into something completely different. The Dadaistic style of mutual association creates a dream-like atmosphere of absurd humor.
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Miss Robinson

2009 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Barmaid Olga is looking for love and happiness, in places near and far.

Barmaid Olga is looking in vain for love that would lead her to marriage. The first candidate for marriage went to prison. Olga gradually learns that being married with a prisoner cannot be her dream. Her life goes on, she finds a new man - however, this relationship turns out to be also as vague and distant as the previous one. Olga's wish to run away from loneliness and reality makes her travel to her next loved one.
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Another

Original title: Teine

2005 | Dance, Feature film, Short, Musical film | 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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Your name shall be Israel

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
Estonian Prison

Original title: Eesti vangla

2003 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The main subject of the history documentary is Patarei Prison - a unique architectural and historical building.

Tower, Bastille, Sing-Sing, Butyrka are all ominous buildings with rich history. The first Republic of Estonia that was established in February 1918 founded a central prison (that people started to call simply "Patarei") in the buildings of a former cannon battery of a sea fortress. During various eras both criminals and visionaries have been imprisoned here. Recollections of those who have been prisoners due to their worldview include the pieces of Estonian and European history in 20th century.
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White Route

The original title "Valge Tee"

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere