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The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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Fish

Original title: Kala

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Jaan Toomik

Life passed on from generation to generation can often turn out to be a cruel paradox.

An average morning. A father and a son go fishing. The father isn’t feeling too well but doesn’t show it. He teaches his son everything – how to drive the car, dig out the worms – how to do everything by himself. Everything changes when the boy catches his first fish.
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Maran

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ants Tammik

Documentary about nature photographer Rein Maran who shares his thoughts about his experiences in nature and philosophy of life.

The life's work of the grand old man of Estonian film Rein Maran lies in a unique collection of numerous nature documentaries. With the sensitive filmmaker´s eye, he has directed for more than fifty films and has captured invaluable visual material. Also by teaching young filmmakers, his contribution to Estonian culture is greater than anyone could understand. In this documentary, we will learn about Rein Maran´s philosophy of life and follow him along his memorable shooting locations.
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Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
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Shards Of Light

Original title: Jagatud valgus

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

Stained glass artist fights for her existence and for new orders. Looking back to her long life, she investigates her current situation and motives of her creativeness.

Estonia has long, dark autumn and winter season. People wait for the light-filled time, so light has a special meaning for the locals. The light also holds a special meaning for Dolores Hoffmann, a stained glass maker, who has been creating stained glass art for forty-four years. Stained glass is an art form born with Christianity, with the churches and cathedrals. People come to church to attend to their most personal, deep matters, to pray and meditate. Colourful stained windows are here, creating the link between the space and outside world, to tune the person to the spirit of Holy ...
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Young Peeter At Laanetaguse

Original title: Peetrike Laanetagusel

2018 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

This family film from Estonian Grand Old Man of nature film Rein Maran, is a story of a child’s explorations of nature and first notices of the surrounding biodiversity. The viewer will find themselves discovering, through his eyes, all possible kinds of miraculous creatures in the grass, on plants, in shrubs and in sky-reaching trees, sharing his astonishment and joy of first discovery.

This family film is a story of a child’s explorations of nature and first notices of the surrounding biodiversity. Young Peeter is like a guide taking the viewer to the environment teeming with life – from the broadest and most general view to the finest details, from the largest creatures to the smallest ones. The viewer will find themselves discovering, through his eyes, all possible kinds of miraculous creatures in the grass, on plants, in shrubs and in sky-reaching trees, sharing his astonishment and joy of first discovery. The film is not a fruit of the filmmakers’ fantasy. It is ...
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A Bad Scene: Early Spring

Original title in Estonian: Varakevad

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Rain Tolk, Gustaf Boman Bränngård

When 15 year old Sander falls prey to an almost fatal bad joke, he has to decide whether to try and break away from his determined social status, or conform and accept his role in the group.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. Harassment, mental violence, manipulation, cornering – these topics are current in both politics as well as private sphere. In these nightmarish confrontations, dramatics, mysticism as well as twisted comedy can be found. The second short film is "Early Spring". This is not a cool youth movie about frolicking teenagers. It's a sociopsychological challenge to incite a discussion about group dynamics, conformism, and social roles that are largely shaped and confirmed in teenage years. Hopefully there ...
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Confession

Original title in Georgian: Beri

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaza Urušadze

There is no space for secrets.

Priest Giorgi, a former film director, is sent to serve a small parish in a mountain village. To bring the villagers closer to the church, he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture, "Some Like It Hot", the audience imply that local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi’s balance between the cleric and secular worlds starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is very hard to resist.
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Roosenberg

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ingel Vaikla

Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. It is the story of an encounter, a story of a space at the beginning of the end.

Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. Roosenberg is a letter that tells of director's encounter with four elderly nuns in a fascinating monastery in Waasmunster, Belgium, before that building was vacated. For several months, director of the film followed four women who belong to the core community of Marian Sisters of St. Francis in Dom Hans van der Laan’s Monasterium and captured the everyday communal life of the sisters, their religious practice and final departure, in order to tell the story of modernist architecture. But this film is not the glorious celebration of that spiritual modernity. ...
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