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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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Over and Out

Original title: Side lõpp

2011 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Järvet
Step On Board

2009 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Antti Häkli

“Step On Board” is a portrait film about Sari Crnobreg, who manages the multi-cultural group of 100 ship cleaners.

“Step On Board” is a story of Sari Crnobreg and her challenging work as a Site Manager of the multi-cultural cleaning team of 100 people. Sari dedicates her life to the physically and mentally demanding job in the constantly changing environment of a cruiser ship. The cleaning time of 60 minutes pushes the cleaners to the maximum in order to finish the 700 cabins on time. Sari doesn’t according to her own words “anymore even see the difference between foreigners and Finns”. She just sees the people whom she works with.
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Will Buy Hives

Original title: Siim, Samuli ja Dolce vita

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo
Ars Longa

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Margit Lillak

Portrait documentary about the strange world of 32-year-old performance artist Sandra Jõgeva.

The documentary offers a glimpse into the upside-down world of 32-year-old performance artist Sandra Jõgeva. Sandra loves to break the rules both in life and art and applies her experence in some way in her art. She seems to prefer extremes everywhere and wishes to offer alternative standpoints as well as not to act up to expectations. Next to the hectic activities and talks by Sandra the film follows another life that seems to flow in perfect harmony in a totally different time-space: the life of Sandra's parents Malle Leis and Villu Jõgeva. For them, being an artist and preparing ...
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Mindless

Original title: Meeletu

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film directed by Elmo Nüganen is based on the play "Mindless" by Jaan Tätte, telling about the protagonist who makes up his mind to leave his successful life and move to a completely different place.

Toomas is a successful forty-year-old businessman who makes up his mind to leave everything for a year - his wife, son, and business - and to live in an old farmhouse by a lonely forest lake. Soon a neighbour from the village knocks on the door of Toomas' farmhouse, followed by another one; it seems that everyone from the village come to Toomas for the message they have heard from a mysterious forest maid. Toomas feels the power and spirit of becoming the prophet of truth. Events will take an unexpected turn when Toomas's wife and business partner pay him ...
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Still Life with Wife

Original title: Vaikelu naisega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

An unusual couple lives in an urban backwater. Married now for over a quarter of a century, their endless sniping never intensifies into the major quarrel that would resolve everything. This constant tension helps the man to paint and gives the woman a reason for living.
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O.M.V.K.

2005 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristin Raup

This is a film that offers an opportunity to visit a house full of stories. The house at O.M.V.K. is a special institution for delinquent girls. But O.M.V.K. is also an acronym used in their secret language.
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Buy an Elephant

Original title: Osta elevant ära

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Õnne Luha

Documentary about a peculiar community of consumption and communication whose members are dedicated to presentation, testing and selling of cleaning agents.

Once a month, the Housewife invites some five or six ladies to her place in order to make a memorable presentation of cleaning agents. If normally the Housewife thoroughly cleans her household then this time she prepares extra "dirty places" in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the cleaning agents. After her successful demonstration the highly welcome Guests become Buyers who are willing to give 300 to 3000 Estonian kroons for acquire the miraculous products. During a three-hour programme every participant will get cleaner. However, the Housewife's husband is behind the closed door of his room upstairs that night.
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Dear Mister Moon

Original title: Kallis Härra Q

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rao Heidmets

The debut feature film directed by Rao Heidmets is based on the children's story "Dear Mister Moon" by Aino Pervik and tells about children's yearning for genuine family relations.

When two stepsisters - 13-year-old blonde Sigrid and 7-year-old dark-complexioned Saara - meet each other for the first time, it will turn out that their grandmother has been taken to a retirement home. The girls make up their minds to steal grandma from the home and hide her in an attic-room where they could be all together. Everything goes unexpectedly well until drunkards, hoodlums and blackmailers interfere and the girls have to know exactly what they are doing in order to escape the gang.
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