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Pädaste

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Katariina Rahumägi

In 1919 Estonia as Bolsheviks' riots swipe through the country, a Baltic German father goes to no end to ensure his daughter´s safety.

Inspired by the true story of Buxhoeveden family escape: as Bolsheviks' riots swipe through Estonia in 1919, burning down mansions and assassinating Baltic German gentry, a father goes to no end to ensure his daughter's safety. A story of becoming an enemy at your own home with nowhere to go.
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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The Rainbow

Original title: Vikerkaar

2005 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Martians are hanging the laundry out to dry. Yet who is drying Wendy’s underpants?

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Martians are hanging the laundry out to dry. Yet who is drying Wendy’s underpants? An answer is not received because something horrible rises up in the sky. The newspaper Pravda glides out of the dimness of the ages and contributes to the establishment of the Communist Party of Greenland. Jose Fernandez quits spitting into the wind because the odour of operation “Sewage Death Seal” ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1963 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
NLKP 22.kongressiks

1961 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin
Nõukogude Eesti

1961 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin
Nõukogude Eesti

1961 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Suure Sotsialistliku Oktoobrirevolutsiooni 44.aastapäev

1961 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Igor Jeltsov