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Ellawood

2012 | Short, Students film | Director: Doris Tääker

Chimney sweeper dreams to be a loved movie star. Once she is a movie star, she does her greatest role as a chimney sweeper.
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Someone else

Original title in Estonian: Keegi teine

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Helen Takkin

Anne spends her evenings in the company of a lover with whom she has a very strong emotional connection. However, their relationship can be shattered by the fact that Anne has to move out with her family. Standing on the railway station platform, he has to make the most difficult decision of his life.
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Nazis and Blondes

Original title: Fritsud ja blondiinid

2008 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar

Estonian-Latvian co-production about the "established fascists" - Baltic actors who were used by the Soviet film industry to create the representation of an enemy and to recreate the image of Baltic people as fascists.

Baltic actors had a special and ungrateful role in Soviet history of cinema - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians appeared on screen as bloodthursty fascists in numerous war films. The filmmakers' question is whether this has influenced the image of the Baltic people? The documentary that has been co-produced by Estonian and Latvian filmmakers tells about artist's responsibility and creative options. The actors - Tõnu Aav from Estonia, Uldis Lieldidžs from Latvia and Algimantas Masiulis from Lithuania - express their opinion on the subject.
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The Man with green backpack

Original title in Estonian: Rohelise seljakotiga mees

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Raigo Saariste

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit, completed as a group work of film students.

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit. Power rules through fear, spirit threatens power by striving for freedom. A man with a backpack arrives in the waiting room of the railway station and starts reading poems in a loud voice, but the officials of the station cannot allow such disorder.
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The Night

Original title in Estonian: Öö

2007 | Short, Students film | Director: Jaanis Valk

In the later sixties of the 19th century, on a fishing boat, love, routine and the fulfillment of dreams collide. Events knock down the everyday life of Paavo, a machinist on the ship, and turn it upside down.
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Estonia constructs

Original title: Eesti ehitab

2006 | Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A glimpse into the carousel at Estonian real estate market in 2006 when it was easy to get housing loans and the prices of apartments kept going up.

Real estate madness in the year of 2006. The protagonist is an average Estonian man, Artur, who desires to find a proper housing for himself for as little money as possible. Artur consults real estate agents who assist him with the housing loan and finding possible apartments that might interest him. Artur's searches at the real estate market reflects the current situation in the business that sells dingy apartments in the "built-up area of cultural and environmental value" for millions or sometimes people buy literally air (read: designed projects) where the houses have not even been built yet. The ...
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Antosha

Original title: Antoša

1995 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait film by Jüri Sillart about one of the most prominent man in Estonian Television, a talented cinematographer Anton Mutt and about his tragic life.

Cameraman Anton Mutt - a distinguished filmmaker in Estonia and a bright star of the local television film history - started his career as a photographer and reached the world of film during the first years of Estonian Television in late 1950s. Anton Mutt was a teacher and an example for the whole generation of filmmakers who successfully tested the possibilities of the art of television - the new field of media. The pages of the cinematography in the history of Estonian Television have been mostly written by this very man. Anton Mutt loved his profession, he dedicated all his ...
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Come Back, Lumumba

Original title: Tule tagasi, Lumumba

1992 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Aare Tilk

The family film directed by Aare Tilk is based on the story "A Tale About Rein" by Toomas Raudam. The film tells about the lost and the found, friendship, caring for each other, and the events of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The culture centre of a small Estonian town is the place where the local people gather - where schoolchildren come to see popular films of 1960 previewed by the newsreels imbued with Soviet ideology to, and where young people meet in cinema and at dancing nights and fall in love. Aurora, the new head of the culture centre, and Lumumba change the lives of Rein and his father who are crushed with grief. Together with their friend Elsa, the boys decide to introduce Rein's father to Aurora in order to make them feel less lonely. It will turn out that ...
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Family Photos

Original title: Perekonnapildid

1989 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Valentin Kuik

A feature film directed by Valentin Kuik is based on his short story "The Formula", telling about the young graduates of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The graduates of a small town are on tenterhooks - the finals will be soon over and the young people will start lives of their own. They don't know what to expect - the school has taught them one thing, their parents something else, and the town shows them something completely else. There is something complicated between Kalle and the town and eventually their relationship will end up in a mess. The relationship between Siim and Evi seems to be fine but even they will face misunderstandings. During the last weeks at school the love, faith and expectations of the ...
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Miinus 192 meetrit

1985 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Irene Lään
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