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Demons

Original title: Deemonid

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ain Mäeots

Tragicomedy directed by Ain Mäeots tells about the world of gambling. It is based on real events and real experiences, contemplating the game from the point of view of an addict.

Joko is a copywriter in his thirties, Reeda is a lifelong math teacher, and Ants manages a sanitary warehouse. All of them are gamblers. The three "totally normal" people cause a spiritual hell for themselves and their loved ones, building up a snowball of lies that will cover all good intentions.
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Distance

Original title (in Estonian): "Distants"

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

On a misty sea drifts a lonely boat. While unseen danger lurks in the fog, the boat's motor is out of order and visibility is as clear as the relationship between the two men sitting in the boat. Do they get out of the mist? Or is it already too late?
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Mushrooming

Original title: Seenelkäik

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

The debut feature film directed by Toomas Hussar is a horror comedy about a politician who loses his direction both when picking mushrooms in the forest as well as in the social system.

Politician Aadu Kägu and his wife Viivi go to pick mushrooms in order to take a break from reputation campaign. They will be accompanied by Zäk - a hitchhiking penniless rock star. To avoid public mushroom forests, they haphazardly go to some remote deep woods that looks wild and deserted. Soon the three of them find out that they are lost. At the same time, a media scandal explodes - investigative journalists suspect that Kägu has misused public funds. Both in the woods and in town a battle of life and death begins.
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Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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A Friend of Mine

Original title: Üks mu sõber

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

A heartfelt comedy directed by Mart Kivastik tells the story about endless solitude that can be soothed only by a close friend.

After his wife dies, Mati has no wish to live any more. His colleague Ruth and daughter Mari carefully try to help him but this won't take Mati's pain away. He will eventually get hospitalized and then caregiver Sass comes to help Mati. Sass is a friend to everyone, especially those in trouble. Mati doesn't really care for being friends with anyone; but Sass's sincerity and positive world view make it impossible to turn away. It is still a long way with unpredictable turns to the knowledge that there is still love left in the world; and it seems that ...
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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

Original title: Lotte ja kuukivi saladus

2011 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

One night two strangers creep into Gadgetville, searching for a suitcase belonging to the old traveller dog Klaus. Girl puppy Lotte surprises the strangers who become frightened and flee, dropping the yellow stone they had taken from the suitcase. Klaus found the stone on his last journey in the mountains. Actually there were three stones; the other two were left to Klaus's friends, the dogs Fred and Ville. Lotte discovers that this is not an ordinary stone. There is a complicated mechanism inside it. Klaus and Lotte decide to find Fred and Ville in order to get the other two ...
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The Idiot

Original title: Idioot

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

The feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet is based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The filmmaker interprets the well-known classic in a contemporary film language with talented Estonian actors and actresses who perform in the enchanting yet intimidating beauty of a sacral space.

When Prince Myshkin appears to the high society of St Petersburg, no one can predict that this penniless and sick man will have such a big influence on people. He can even handle hardened souls such as Rogozhin and his companions, not to mention the family of General Yepanchin. Young, pretty and innocent Aglaya is ready for anything for Prince Myshkin. The prince, however, is dedicated to Nastasya Filippovna instead. Having been through the hell of desires, she has a purified soul that inspires respect and hope in the prince in order to save her from damnation.
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Buratino, Son of Pinocchio

Original title: Buratino

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Musical adventure comedy is the second feature film directed by Rasmus Merivoo. It is based on the children's book "The Golden Key or the adventures of Buratino" by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film is a co-production of Estonia and Russia.

Buratino and his mother Maria Carlo live on the poor side of the town called GoodBad that is split into two by a wall. Buratino goes to an awful school. Most of his days are filled with acting fools and making music together with his friends Artemon, Pierrot and Toivo. Maria has not told her son the mystery behind his strange origin yet. Evil Carabas Barabas lives in the highest skyscraper of the rich part of the town and searches for the boy who has magic powers with what one can govern the world. The chase brings Buratino together with ...
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Black Peter

Original title: Must Peeter

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Priit Pääsuke

One night, a modern married couple living in a city settles their alienated relationship while trying to bring novelty into their lives with provocations exceeding the limits of decency.

Sarcastic comedy based on Peeter Sauter's short story "Black Peter". The film tells a story about a married couple who keep fighting and upsetting each other. Peter and his wife are having dinner in a restaurant with their friends. The wife says that they have not quarreled for already two weeks. However, this is just a pretext, preceding a solid war. She provokes the husband with masochistic consistency and will achieve her goal. The man's response is striking and ridiculous.
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