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Legends of Winding Roads

Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

One of the golden decades of 100-year-old Estonian autosport was the 80s. Estonians were such great rally drivers that several of our crews raced in the USSR team every season. The status of a member of the Soviet Union team was the highest peak, and it was every driver's dream to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages. They drove a Lada VFTS with FIA Group B homologation, which ...
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Lynx Man

Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to ...
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Organist

2023 | Other categories | Director: Maria Uppin

The sound of the organ brings back a childhood memory experienced decades ago.

The short film tells the story of a musician's childhood memory, which holds significant meaning to him even decades later. Through this poetic documentary, the architecture and details of the historical building come to life, opening the viewers' eyes to the beauty of the church and the power of childhood memories.
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Paul Keres

2023 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

When this documentary reached the editing table, the British newspaper The Guardian, which reaches thirty million readers, featured an article by renowned chess writer Leonard Barden, “Pride of Estonia: Paul Keres, one of the best to never hold chess world crown”.

When this film reached the editing table, the British newspaper The Guardian, which reaches thirty million readers, featured an article by renowned chess writer Leonard Barden, “Pride of Estonia: Paul Keres, one of the best to never hold chess world crown”. “Keres became a national hero for Estonians,” writes Leonard Barden, who believed that the Soviet authorities forced him to play badly at the 1948 World Championship tournament. Most of the professionals who appear in the film also agree with the theory that Paul Keres was influenced by the Soviet authorities. But some disagree. The film crew went to Amsterdam and ...
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Raise Me a Memory

Original title: Läinud on jäänud

2023 | Documentary | Director: Varun Trikha

“If you are born a Seto, you remain a Seto” As this phrase from Setomaa suggests, being a Seto implies being a possessor of a cultural past which one can’t escape.

A creative documentary about how the seto culture is transitioning amidst some historical, political and cultural upheavals; told through three characters trying to make sense of what it means to be a seto in today’s surrealistic border landscapes of Setomaa. ‘Dreams’ are considered pivotal in seto beliefs and it’s through them that the three characters escape the demons of the present to meet and understand a nuanced past which they have inherited as setos. The two-world imageries of Setomaa express and compliment this dual existence of the three characters.
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Spit in My Face

Original title: Sülita mulle näkku

2023 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

There is a jubilee in the air! Documentary about two legendary filmmakers (Kristjan of Kibuvitsa and Peet of Oja), whose feud has lasted for 50 years. Who would know you better than your lifelong competitor? Half a century of arm wrestling is not less sparkling than the exchange of words between Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film is made by the classic adversaries’ assistant from 40 years ago, who has now become a less known documentary filmmaker.

Kristjan Svirgsden and Edvard Oja, old cinema classics, forgotten rivals, have kept an eye on each other’s work their whole life. Criticism towards a colleague has fed the men and kept them alive. And keeping alive is not just a phrase in their case. Today, their health is ruined. The two invalids on the shortlist of the Grim Reaper have not forgotten each other’s existence and are carefully following their adversary’s fate. Alas, there are have been no news for a while. And what news could you expect from a person in recluse? An obituary, if any. The demise of ...
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Yasmin. Clarity for a Day or Two

Original title: Yasmin. Selgus päevaks või kaheks

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anastasia Zazhitskaya, Georgius Misjura, Nikita Kurashov

Yasmyn (Sinencia Jasmine Kass) is a dreamy yet enterprising artist with Dominican and Estonian roots. She was born and raised in a country where diversity is still a novelty. Her music is experimental, courageous, and adventurous. She fights with her own perfectionism and perceptions of society. In her everyday life, Sinencia is a focused and active entrepreneur and artist, going through her early twenties and the challenges that this age usually brings - how to build a career in the music industry, earn money, and build relationships with people at work and at home. Yasmyn’s story brings up universal, age-old questions ...
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50 Years Later

Original title: 50 aastat hiljem

2022 | Other categories | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

Helle sees a photo taken 50 years ago in her photo album and travels back to the times when she was truly crazy.

Helle sees a photo taken 50 years ago in her photo album and travels back to the times when she was truly crazy. We take the same photo again in the same place and we see that the woman´s vitality has not disappeared - it has just taken a different form today.
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Between the Three

Original title: Kolmevahel

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marek Vahula

The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.

The documentary introduces the story of environmental protection of Kunda bay in 1992–1993 when two extension plans for the port of Kunda were impeded – to Letipea in the winter of 1992 and to Toolse in the winter of 1993. And as a final result, the port remained to its historical location.
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Big Swamp

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2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

Vello followed an ancient call and settled on a swamp island, his neighbors became beavers, eagles and countless other species who have found a safe habitat in this cradle of nature.

Vello moved to the farthest swamp island of Emajõe-Suursoo 30 years ago. He left his previous labor life and the city to live in harmony with the mother of nature. There is still such a nature in Emajõe-Suursoo that is vanishing from the rest of the world. The vast delta allows the species to live on its own, without much human intervention, even though man has been seeking refuge and food supplements in the swamp for thousands of years. Vello makes a living from beekeeping and hunting, his life flows in the rhythm of nature.
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