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The Redemption

Original title: Lunastus

2000 | Feature film, Short | Director: Mare Raidma

Costume and theatre artist Mare Raidma's director's debut. A short film about the transferral of the teenager girl's childhood traumas to adulthood.

Sanna has been put to the girl's boarding school where she suffers because of her mother committed to prison because of manslaughter. An intrigue arises in the dormitory, a relationship triangle between introvert Sanna, her practical roommate Anni and shy young man Toni who works in a laundry store. Toni grows very fond of Sanna. Sanna has difficulties in coping with the real world because of her fears that emerge from the memory images from her childhood. The budding sexuality of the teenage boy makes Sanna confused and she is dragged into the whirlwind of a relationship. While following her ...
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Georgica

Original title: Georgica

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.

Story about the silent Boy who is sent for medical treatment to Jakub, a former colonial missionary living on an island that is also a military training area. Jakub is the only civilian there. He has to make observations during the bombing at night and phone the headquarters about the results. The observation spot is located in the tower of a church in ruins where Jakub makes silage. The missionary - an old horse - tramples silage in the church tower. There are beehives inside of the church. Jakub plays the organ, singing chorals and the Boy pumps the organ ...
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Private life

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin
The Sunny Kids

Original title: Noorelt õpitud

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The symbolistic drama directed by Jüri Sillart is telling the story about the spring of young graduates in a small town of Estonia at the end of Stalinist era. The atmosphere of terror is reigning over the place while paralyzing the pursuits of freedom, love and dignity.
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35 Years Since Enn Nõu's Graduation from Upper Secondary School

Title in Estonian: Enn Nõu gümnaasiumi lõpetamisest 35 aastat

1988 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

In May 1988, Enn Nõu recollects his studies as 35 years have passed since he graduated frmo the upper secondary school in Uppsala. Preparational meeting of the party, materials related to the former days at school.

Enn Nõu studied at Högre Allmänna Läroverket in 1946-1953. In order to prepare the celebrations for 35th anniversary since graduating from the upper secondary school, a few former classmates have gathered at Bo Ekström's place. People are discussing things at the coffee table. Enn Nõu has diligently documented materials from the era of his studies at the upper secondary school. Photographs, documents and cutouts from newspapers with Enn Nõu's commentaries and diary entries. Materials from the years 1951-1953. Enn Nõu's drawings and sketches from the days of upper secondary school.
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Vernanda

based on Arvo Valton's short story “Vernanda leib”

1988 | Feature film, Short | Director: Roman Baskin

Debut film directed Roman Baskin is an artistic caricature of totalitarian society, depicting the protagonist's arrival at an isolated city.

Debut film directed Roman Baskin is an artistic caricature of totalitarian society, depicting the protagonist's arrival at an isolated city. The film was set in Sillamäe – an Estonian town where one could enter only with special permission during the Soviet times since bombs were made there. There was a factory of enriching uranium. The city called Vernanda was used as a generalization to illustrate the functioning of totalitarian society and its influence to those living under the Soviet regime.
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Teine reaalsus

1984 | Documentary | Director: Heini Drui
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The Ideal Landscape

Original title: Ideaalmaastik

1980 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The first full-length feature film directed by Peeter Simm is based on the story "The deputy of spring sowing" by Karl Helemäe, analyzing the choices of a young man during the era of the establishment of collective farms in Estonian countryside.

The beginning of 1950s. Mait Kukemeri from the Young Communist League is appointed to improve the process of spring sowing in a collective farm. The leader of the collective farm together with his fellow farmers won't rush to the field since the soil is too wet for sowing and there is not enough seed grain. But the authorities want the results. So the young deputy has to find a solution at any price. He will discover new things about life and himself during that crazy yet bright spring.
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Liblikapüüdja

1978 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mark Soosaar
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Georg Ots ja nõukogude laul

1975 | Musical film | Director: Irene Lään
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