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The Butterfly Man

Original title: Liblikmees

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Edina Csüllög

A dream-like, uncanny short film telling about Anselm who dreams to become a magician.

Lonesome and clumsy Anselm works as a dedicated assistant to a famous magician Ernesto in Boruslawski Circus. Anselm secretly practises tricks as his deepest wish is to become a great magician himself. Finally the big moment arises for him when Ernesto bewitches himself and disappears. For a moment, Anselm becomes a great favourite of the audience, but his miraculous ability to conjure up butterflies from himself becomes fatal both for himself and for the circus.
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Codex Gigas

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Gadi Lübek
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Interview with Roman Toi in Tallinn on July 21, 2011

Title in Estonian: Roman Toi intervjuu Tallinnas 21.07.2011

2011 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with choirmaster Roman Toi, also an alumnus of fraternity "Vironia", held in Tallinn on July 21st, 2011.

Young members of fraternity "Vironia" hold an interview with choirmaster and alumnus of fraternity "Vironia" Roman Toi. They talk about the activity and social life of fraternities and sororities in 1930s. Roman Toi recalls fellow students from Jakob Westholm Upper Secondary School who all except one joined a fraternity. Roman Toi joined "Vironia" fraternity when he studied at the University of Tartu in 1936. He says that military service was highly appreciated in the fraternity. All members belonged to the Defence League back then. Toi served in the pioneer commando in infantry. He was thankful to the army because the boy ...
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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Executioner

2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Aleksandr Radžynskyi

Media student Aleksandr Radzinsky's directorial work in BFM III course subject "Directing Fiction". The internal conflict of a family man holding a cruel job becomes unbearable.

A psychological study of a family man who lives in two opposing worlds. The man is burdened by the question "What next?" asked by his last victim. There is no escape from the divisive infighting in the cozy home milieu.
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Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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Incipit Vita Nova

Original title: Incipit vita nova

1992 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Hardi Volmer

Father of a family went to carry out his refuse bin and found himself in some strange world,where striking things happened to him.

Father of a family went to carry out his refuse bin and found himself in some strange world,where striking things happened to him. Meanwhile this world virtually is a grotesque generalization of that mode of life which is all the time implated by mass media in a consumption society. Does this “new life“ convert the main hero of the film into a passive doll? The film is accomplished in amixed technique uniting both live actors and puppets.
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The Lady in the Car

Original title: Daam autos

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The psychological thriller directed by Peeter Urbla is based on the well-known novel "The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun" by S. Japrisot.

Helen is a young secretary at a successful advertising company who must take the company's new car to the garage. The test ride leads Helen to the chain of deja vu events, with the aim to push the girl towards suicide.
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Daughter raising in the family

Title in Estonian: Peres kasvab tütar

1988 | Documentary | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski

Documentary of popular science introduces the growth problems of a teenager girl.

Documentary with staged elements introduces the issues related to the growth and raising of a teenager girl that her family and school should take into consideration and to cope with. The documentary includes also scenes from a class where the female and male anatomy is being introduced to young women. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Health of USSR.
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The Witch

Original title: Nõid

1988 | Feature film, Short | Director: Elo Tust

A young woman working as a paramedic is emotionally confused and trying to get rid of the inexplicable restlessness that has been bothering her.

Everything seems to be fine in the young Woman's life. She works as a paramedic – a profession requiring understanding and compassion – but it is her who actually is in need of help to alleviate the restlessness in her. As a doctor, the Woman lacks emotional connection with her patients; she feels alienation towards other people and the surroundings. Her behavior is ironical and provoking. When sitting on a bench in front of her home – a panel apartment building, the Woman is made to look into the mirror by a random bypasser.
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