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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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Dear a new generation of filmmakers! Interview with Endel Koplimets

Original title in Estonian: Kallid uue põlvkonna filmitegijad! Intervjuu Endel Koplimetsaga

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sander Lebreht

Film student’s interview with Endel Koplimets who works in Estonian Film Institute. The main theme is Estonia’s future in filmmaking.

Endel Koplimets talks about how he got into film making, shares where Estonia's film industry goes and finally adds suggestions for the new age of filmmakers. It's discussion about past, present and future.
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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Loved

Original title: Armastasin

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Natalja Matšenene

When a stage director Anna and a businessman Maxim meet they both get the feeling that they have known each other for ages. Nevertheless they can't take their relationship further due to personal values and social norms. One day Anna comes to a regression therapy and finds out about her previous lives.

After the premiere of her stage production, Anna meets Maxim. They both feel that they have known each other for donkey’s years. They begin to socialise, but the development of their relationship is complicated. Anna gets to a psychologist – regression practitioner, where she learns that her problems lie beyond this life. Anna agrees to undergo a regression therapy session, during which she remembers that she and Maxim have met in their past lives and swore to love each other forever. In the present life Anna once again tries to fulfil her promise.
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Mothers' Day

Title in Estonian: Emade päev

2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Problem oriented | Director: Kristiina Davidjants

Film about prison and imprisoned mothers, asking the question whether it is possible for these mothers to maintain connection with their children or not.

There is mothers' day in the department of women at Tallinn Prison. Six imprisoned mothers gather by the table in order to record a fairy tale for sending it to their children. The documentary ponders on the themes of crime and punishment and whether it is possible to maintain connection between a mother and her child in this situation.
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Of Mosquitoes and Men

Original title: Sääselised

2019 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Madis Ligema

As a species, humans credit to be far more powerful then all other species. But are we happier?

Some of this planet's mysteries we get. It fills us with great pride and satisfaction. But how can we claim some deeper insight into the ways of the world if we don't fully understand ourselves, never mind the humble mosquito? This documentary is a contemplative journey into the habitat of creatures both large and small, fathered by the Estonian nature and its fertile soil. The mosquito has assumed the role of the smallest of the living beings, and man the most important of them all. The documentary delves deep into the symbiosis between the two and into our mission on ...
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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Hunter

Original title: Kütt

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk
Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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