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Hit Big

Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

"Hit Big" revolves around Marjaleena, a 60-year-old, boozed-up former beauty pageant star who left Finland for Spain's Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot for Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko. One day, they hear that Marjaleena's husband, Worm, will be released after 20 years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist. Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions.
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Life of Ivanna

Original title in Russian: Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ

2021 | Documentary | Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano

From the harsh, nomadic life on the tundra to an uncertain future with five children. Four years in the life of a strong and charismatic woman as vital, physical film art.

Ivanna, a 26-year-old mother of five children, is living in the Arctic region in northwest Siberia. She lives a traditional nomadic life, driving her herd of reindeer at the tundra as her family did for centuries. But due to the environmental side effects of climate change most of her reindeers are dying and she knows that she will soon be ruined and forced to make a dramatic decision. Her husband, Gena, has already left the family. He moved to the city, hoping to find a job as an oil worker in the Russian oil fields but didn’t succeed and ...
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Deliveries

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Lauri Niemelä

A contemporary short fiction film about loss, dissociation and act of coping in an unusual way.

Amid a personal crisis, Chia, a migrant food courier in Tallinn, delivers an order to a dead woman.
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Kevin, No!

Original title: Kevin, ei!

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leslie Laasner

Smart life addicts on an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island.

A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organise n adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favourite activity - surfing on the phone. However, the smart life addicts who have grown under the light of their screens for their whole life, are surprised to discover that there is a place in the world with no coverage of WiFi. Crushing boredom sets in quickly and hope fades along with cell phone batteries: is there anything at all to be done in such a desolate place? Soon the discover some old-timer on the island who has a tempting ...
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Hearts of Sirgala

Original title: Sirgala südamed

2018 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen
New Rise, Old Ebb

Original title: Uus Tõus, Vana Mõõn

2018 | Documentary | Director: Enrico Barone, Carlo Cubero, Kristiina Pilvet

In 2016 several fires destroyed several buildings on the island of Piirissaare, among the also the Old Believers prayer house. Praskovja, the 84-year- old choir singer and important member of the community, lost her childhood´s house in one the fires and she is trying to get on her feet down again and continue living.

From May to September 2016, several fires took place on the island of Piirissaare, destroying many houses and the most important building of the community: the Old Believers' prayer house. These events caused insecurity and disagreement among the members within the community. 84-year-old Praskovja is the key figure of the community and used to sing in the prayer house´s choir. Her childhood house burnt down in one of the fires, and now she has been forced to move to her old summer cottage and strives to rise again on her feet. The documentary shows through Praskovja's eyes how the community of ...
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Why Don't I Leave?

Original title: Miks ma siis ei lähe?

2018 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

Three Estonian women in London (not to mention the children).

Kati, Triin and Siiri moved to London for a year or two to learn English and gain new experiences. Today, over ten years has passed, they have started families and seems like the future is now abroad. The longing for homeland has remained but returning to Estonia is frightening. Why is going home suddenly so complicated?
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Kerro 40

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Story about family club Kerro in the countryside in middle of Estonia.

Kerro 40 is a story about unique cultural phenomenon that already 40 years takes place in Estonian countryside called Käru. It is community based and takes place regularly from September till May every year. The core of those activities are classical dance culture and Estonian traditional folklore. Documentary follows representatives of 3 different generations that actively participate in organization of those events and popularization of a strong tradition among younger inhabitants in and outside of Käru community. Lembit Eensoo started to join Kerro events almost 40 years ago, a lot of things are different now. Inge Nuia is taking part ...
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Gorilla Tourism

Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

Rwanda in Eastern Africa is a place that already for the past twenty years, after the last civil war and genocide where almost a million people were killed, has been successful in avoiding ethnic conflicts and in constructing a new society of conciliation. The main source of income for the people in this country of the Hutu and the Tutsi is mainly agriculture; however, the strict rulers of the state want to turn this mountaneous country into one of the most modern and technologically developed small states of Africa. But the main source of financing this grand plan is mountain ...
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