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Stairway to Heaven

Original title: Taevatrepp

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.

Mart Kivastik's tragicomic feature film is a free flight between the 70s and today, a story about setting your spirit free, with an added dimension by the ongoing crisis. The author is looking for an explanation for the time given to us. Is one able to enjoy life, when facing midlife, growing old and eventually death. The authors message is humane, derived from his own life experiences: love and happiness from small things make life worth living.
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Lydia

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hermes Brambat, Tarvo Mölder

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula.

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula. She has inspired the kids to love music for over five decades. However, her life's work is the Tallinn Boys' Choir. Besides vocal training, she has also raised generations of boys to be a gentleman. Thanks to her, many Estonian men are much better men. It's unbelievable that Lydia is in her seventies. She is extremely vital and full of energy. It is no problem for her even to have a football match with the boys. After all, age is nothing but a number, and she proves ...
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Estonian Funeral

Original title: Eesti matus

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

Andres, a young man who sells retirement insurances in shopping centres, meets a dark-skinned girl and falls in love.Lee, the newfound girl of his dreams called, is an open-minded world traveler who does not understand the „workaholism“ of Estonians nor the need to own land at all costs. With naive dreams, the young lovers want to go travel the world in search of happiness, but they have to take an unexpected small detour first. Andres has to go to his grandfather's funeral and unsuspectingly takes Lee with him. At the funeral, a colorful company of friends, family and neighbours have gathered ...
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Grandma, meet Mary

Original title: Vanaema, saa tuttavaks

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaire Russ

The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80 birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

At the center of the short film we find an ordinary family struggling with generational differences about what it means to love and live a full life. The main character Virve (Tiina Mälberg), a middle-aged perfectionist, has gone to great lengths to make sure her mother’s (Ines Aru) jubilee would be a perfectly traditional family celebration. Her plans are interrupted by her niece Silvia (Grete Konksi) who arrives to the party with her same-sex partner Mary (Jaanika Arum). Grandma and grandpa are clueless and welcome Mary to the table because they remember her as a childhood friend of their granddaughter. The ...
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Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.
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Vastuvõtt

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets
Mesipuu poole

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Siberian Vacation

Original title: Puhkus Siberis

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liivo Niglas

Documentary by ethnologist Liivo Niglas about the reunion of relatives in an Estonian village in Siberia in summer 2010.

When spending her holiday in her parents' home village Verkhniy Suetuk in Siberia, young Estonian Anne recognizes something that she could not expect – her roots. What should she do when her heart belongs here but her life is in Estonia?
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Trendy Dog

Original title: Moekoer

2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Moonika Siimets

Documentary about the daily lives of the lapdogs Nufi and Vishenka and their owners Nele and Marina; also about their dreams and dedication that knows no limits.

In the glamorous world of lapdogs, Nufi and Vishenka are more than dogs - they are stars. Their owners Nele and Marina are fully dedicated to leading the lives that the status of their pets require from them, including all the ups and downs - either the successful performance at the fashion show or looking for the right mating partner. The film tells about love and friendship in an original and unexpected way.
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Two-Faced Island

Original title: Kahe näoga saar

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kerttu Soans

Tanja lives on Vormsi island for the second winter. Every morning she opens the door of the village shop for the visitors, either for one or one hundred people.

Vormsi island lives by its own laws. In summer the island bursts with life, in winter there is almost nothing going on. Tanja, the village shopkeeper, came to live on the island a few years ago. Together with her husband Ervin who is a ship's cook they live in Rumpo village close to the coast. The village shop is always the midpoint of the island; every morning at 8am Tanja opens the casement windows and the door despite the season. Will there be anyone coming in today? Will there be a few hundred visitors?
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