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Feathers or Glamour

Original title: Suled või glamuur

2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

The apocalyptic tendencies of the first COVID wave in 2020 led hundreds of people living in urban settlements to start keeping chickens in their backyard. Following three different families in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, the documentary investigates how a chicken turned from egg-centric rural bird into a trendy urban pet. How does she feel in the City? Is chicken the new dog? Living beak to beak with humans has made chickens more self-aware, more individualistic and more human-like in every way. Weird accessories, bizarre glamorous events and uncommonly good living conditions now form a part of the urban chicken's everyday ...
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Grass

Original title: Murust

2021 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Film about grass.

The Estonian documentary by Kaupo Kruusiauk is about two families with opposing views on mowing grass and gardening. Larissa and Arvo Pajo live near Rapla. They value caring for your grass and garden and spend an average of two hours on their yard every day. Yardwork is central to their lives and seems to be the guardian of their relationship. Anne Roolaht and Harvi Varkki are jewelry designers who live in Merivälja. Their philosophy is to care for their grass as little as possible. Nature should be allowed to sprawl and develop on its own. Not mowing their grass also means that ...
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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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Fast Eddy's Old News

Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised

2015 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?
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Life with Herman H. Rott

Original title: Elu Herman H. Rott'iga

2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Chintis Lundgren

Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.

Herman is a rat who enjoys heavy drinking, loud grind music and chess. He doesn't care much for cleaning and the disorder in his apartment only makes him feel more at home. One day a very tidy cat who has a weakness for messy macho-men, decides to move in. She also brings a vacuum cleaner, a piano, and what's worse - a collection of classical music records.
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Space of Pure Thought

Original title: Puhta mõtte ruum

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Puu Estonia (pseudonüüm)

Documentary about the modern humanitarian who according to himself has no choices.

Philosopher Jan Jõemets embodies all Estonian humanitarians of 1990s. While flying too high and being too free he burned his fingers and now the viewers can decide themselves whether Jan has enouth will and power to rise from the ashes. Only Jan's friend Margus Ott has survived in today's desinfected and chlorinated pool of education among the former philosophy students of the School of Humanities. The documentary points out the commercialization of today's higher education and suffocation of free thinking. The protagonists' journey reveals how educational system attempts to cast creative thinkers into similar moulds.
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Feathers or Glamour

Grass

The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Fast Eddy's Old News

Life with Herman H. Rott

Space of Pure Thought