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Homebound

Original title (in Estonian): "Kodutee"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

New movie “Kodutee” by Tõnis Pill tells a story of grief and dealing with it.

An older lady drives on snowy roads in a sidecar motorcycle with her dead husband, to get the perfect picture with a lighthouse and her husband.
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Lembri Uudu

2017 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi
November

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

"November" is based on Estonian novel "Rehepapp" by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last twenty years. The film is a mixture of magic, black humor and romantic love. The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. To guard their souls, they'll give them away to thieving creatures made of wood and metal called kratts, who ...
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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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The First Spring

Original title (in Estonian): "Esimene kevad"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eleen Änilane

A man who has lost his wife due to a serious illness learns to see the world in color again after a difficult experience.

Jaan, 79, buried his wife Antonina in the autumn, with whom he recently celebrated a golden wedding in the backyard. This spring, he will have to face unprecedented difficulties: how to deal with the silence in an empty house; how to keep motivated for daily routine tasks that Jaan has not had to do alone for more than 50 years; and how to find the strength for the roses planted with your husband to bloom this spring as well?
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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The Swan

Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

There is a beast living on the top of a mountain in Iceland. It appears to human beings as a swan. When looking in the eye of a man, the beast will see the person completely through and foretells all about the life of the person. Meeting the swan is an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. This is often the reason why so many people wish to travel to Iceland and drive around the country despite harsh weather conditions. It is not a free choice for the nine-year-old ...
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U48 2017: Death of the Mother

Original title in Estonian: U48: Ema surm

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Teemu Kettunen

A short film about a dying mother in a disconnected family.

Ema Surm examines a disconnected family through a mother’s eyes in her deathbed, while her husband is trying to capture the last moments of her and their daughter with a smartphone.
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Amalimbo

2016 | Animation, Cartoon, Other types of animation | Director: Juan Pablo Libossart

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo as she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ after the recent death of her beloved father.

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently dead father. A short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
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Four Breaths

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Agladze

Four women are sharing their thoughts and ideas regarding death.

Film tells a story about four women. All of them, directly or indirectly, are connected to death. Death is seen, heard, told and felt in this film, through four women.
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