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Ainus

2009 | Amateur films | Director:
Amontillado

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristo Viiding

After more than a decade of meticulous planning, the time has come. Tonight there will be a settling of scores. And when the morning comes, the nineties will finally be dead and buried. Based on E. A. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", a classic revenge st
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Apelsinilõigud

2009 | Amateur films | Director:
At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Baruto - Lost in Translation

Original title: Baruto - Tõlkes kaduma läinud

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Artur Talvik

Portrait documentary directed by Artur Talvik about Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto and about his difficult journey towards the highest rank of Japanese sumo wrestling.

The documentary tells the story of Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto, a common Estonian boy coming from the countryside, and about his difficult journey to the closed circle of Japanese sumo wrestling. His quickly developing Sumo career is being admired by his fans both in Japan and in homeland. He becomes famous that is a complicated burden. Through Kaido's eyes we can see the differences between the Eastern and Western cultures through sumo traditions, strict rituals and hierarchy. The director of the film started to follow Baruto's activities since 2005 - during the four years of filming there were both ups ...
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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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Eesti lipp 120

2009 | Amateur films | Director:
Estonian Stories. Pastacas

Original title: Pastacas

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Kotov

Portrait documentary by Rein Kotov about Estonian musician and artist Ramo Teder alias Pastacas who lives in Finland.

Pastacas alias Ramo Teder is a mystical man who makes beautiful yet weird folktronica musica and uses a ball-point pen to draw on his paintings. His music has listeners from Helsinki to Tokyo. Ramo Teder was born in rural Estonia and now lives in a small village in South-Western Finland with his Finnish wife Piia and seven-year-old daughter Pihla. Pastacas composes his music out of miniature parts that form a lyrical and weird whole. Ramo is a traveler and a musician, an Estonian artist abroad.
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Evidence

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Krisjanis Leitis
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From Side to Side

Original title: Teisel pool teed

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Students film | Director: Jaanis Valk

We do not want to be sick. We do not want to be forgotten. That, however, is what the people in this film are. Seven percent of the population of the Republic of Estonia does not have health insurance. There is only one ward with 25 beds in the entire country for their treatment. And the women who care for the seriously ill.Day after day, they have to manage with difficulties, the existence of which nobody want to hear about and even less to see. Yet this film tries to do all this. To see and hear people's cries for ...
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