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Vinyl Whisperer

Original title: Muusika, mida ma veel ei tea

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

Music, that Shazam doesn’t know and Spotify can’t find.

A vinyl archeologist armed with encyclopaedic knowledge and unbound passion for obscure music, embarks on a journey to find the rarest vinyl records of the Soviet era.
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Kevin, No!

Original title: Kevin, ei!

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leslie Laasner

Smart life addicts on an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island.

A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organise n adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favourite activity - surfing on the phone. However, the smart life addicts who have grown under the light of their screens for their whole life, are surprised to discover that there is a place in the world with no coverage of WiFi. Crushing boredom sets in quickly and hope fades along with cell phone batteries: is there anything at all to be done in such a desolate place? Soon the discover some old-timer on the island who has a tempting ...
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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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My idea of myself

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Volia Chajkouskaya

I would never believe that making friends with my own face would become such a life-challenge.

Sonya, 23, is a successful Estonian fashion model. Volia, 32, explores female identity, vulnerabilities, and wants to look behind Sonya’s facade. The film exposes Sonya’s gloss during professional photoshoots, and unmasks her traumas in intimate talks with the director. While opening up those two sides of Sonya’s personality, the film shows how female friendship emerges and what women have in common.
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Old Man Cartoon Movie

Original title: Vanamehe Film

2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.
Tõnis Mägi

2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke

A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.

The film is partly based on Tõnis Mägi’s life story but focuses more on his contemporary works and the new songs he’s created. It shows how each new story reflects his unique world through different moments from his own life and Estonian cultural history.
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Big City Beat

Original title: Suurlinna biit

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli

A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.

Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.
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Euro Euphoria

2014 | Documentary | Director: Ermo Säks

Euro Euphoria is the very first film about the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s a fast-paced story full of humor that captivates the viewer with a cascade of perspectives amid aficionados' adventures on the sidelines of the annual contest.

This feature documentary, filmed in Malmö, Sweden during Eurovision Song Contest 2013, is the very first film about the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s a fast-paced story full of humor that captivates the viewer with a cascade of perspectives amid aficionados' adventures on the sidelines of the annual contest. The inquisitive author travels to Malmö to understand how the phenomenon of fandom affects the ESC and what is actually going on behind the scenes out of the reach of cameras. Do gender, race, age or sexual orientation stir up controversies at the international music extravaganza? Does it offer ...
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All Musicians Are Bastards

Original title: Kõik muusikud on kaabakad

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature, Students film | Director: Heleri Saarik

The full-length feature is the debut film directed by Heleri Saarik. The film is a visual love-letter to music, an impressionistic drama about the deams of young generations. Besides the bitter love story, the film expresses protesting against the confusion both in society and in the protagonists of the film.

Leila is a singer with an interesting voice, fascinated by surreal electronic sounds instead of conventional jazz. Unfortunately, avant garde won't pay rent so Leila gets involved in various forms of buying, selling, and offering services in the most unexpected places and situations. Self-destructive lifestyle and cruel rivarly in music business make Leila think about the line between the two different realities - the illusory ghost world and the real society where human relationships are used in order to get access into the lonely and desolate world of things, prestige and public attention.
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Cure of Ills

Original title: Haiguste ravi

2011 | Feature film, Short | Director: Raul Viitung, Margus Univer

An office-working twenty-something struggles to gain control over his troubled everyday life. After bad interpretations of some bad advice, he decides to follow a mysterious graffiti text that once appeared all over the Soviet Estonia, but ends up in a psychedelic mess instead.

An office-working twenty-something struggles to gain control over his troubled everyday life. After bad interpretations of some bad advice, he decides to follow a mysterious graffiti text that once appeared all over the Soviet Estonia, but ends up in a psychedelic mess instead.
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