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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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Oak Lake Pins

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Oto Klavins

The story centers around the idea of feeling alone among other people. This often is experienced in modern day society that when those who are different and do not relate to others are considered weird or socially awkward. The story of Oak Lake Pins experiments with this idea – What if everyone around you were complete idiots and you were stuck on an island with them?

Oak Lake Pins is the story of a young, depressed man Oliver who finds that his favorite bowling alley has been shut down because of other people’s foolishness. Without any happiness left for him in the town of Oak Lake he decides to leave but soon he finds out that all his life he has been living on an island and as it turns out everyone has known that already except for Oliver himself. Oliver takes his first steps of an attempt to escape the island by building a raft, but soon he realizes that someone wants to prevent that ...
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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Time will grow through our bones

Original title (in Estonian): "Aeg kasvab läbi me luudest"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Dora Lall

Film student Dora Lall’s short film tells a story of a man who is stuck in his everyday work routine. He is unable to find a way to fulfill his dreams and wishes until everything falls apart and he is obliged to make a change.

Jaanus has been working in a factory for 10 years. He’s stuck in his everyday work but finds it impossible to make a change in his life. After a conflict with workmate Mart, change seems to be inevitabele.
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The Days That Confused

Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

The 27-year- old protagonist Allar moves from one provincial party to another, meeting colorful characters and finding himself in evermore confusing circumstances. The amounting tension and absurdity of surrounding events lead Allar to give serious thought to his life. What follows is a frantic journey through midsummer Estonia to finally discover meaning in oneself.
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The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
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Nadja

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Janis Rižovs

"Nadja" is magical realistic story about finding something a man has lost in a journey of he's life. A successful businessman Janus is fed up with his current life and he decides to search for something he has lost. Not really knowing what it is that he’s after, he meets Nadja, who shows him a more simpler point of view of life. As Janus gets to know her, he finds out that she is not what he thought she’d be.
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Puberty

Original title (in Estonian): "Puberteet"

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Triin Ruumet

Young girls are looking for adventures.

We were young and thoughtless, immature and careless – and we had a really good time.... even if we behaved like fools..
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Simulator

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Vytautas Tinteris, Liva Kalnina

A young man is inside a simulator of a ship. The sea outside the computer created windows is calm and as long as he is in the safety of this constructed reality, the man manages to take the control over everything, including himself.

This safety is shaken when he meets a charsmatic and a quite mysterious girl. They are having a walk by the seaside. She whispers in his ear and runs away. They are playing hide and seek until the moment when the girl actually disappears and the young man is distracted by the sea. He hears the beeping sounds as the ones he heard while being in the computer created simulator before. Can it be that the seemingly real world and the girl he met were also just a simulation of the reality? In the simulator of the ship there is ...
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