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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

A deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Margus Paju

A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence (O2) is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Haunted by a ...
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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Portrait, Documentary | 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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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | 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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In the World of Beholders

Original title: Nägijate maailmas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Õnne Luha

41-year-old Jaanika lost her vision due to diabetes at the age of 11. She sees difficulties in life as an opportunity to develop as an individual and tries to lead an independent life in the world of vision.

41-year-old Jaanika has diabetes. She knew that one day she would lose her vision. 11 years ago this happened. She is an extremely strong and optimistic woman who gives meaning to her disability: she believes that when one meets his or her destiny as a challenge, one will start see everything more clearly while losing fear and becoming free and open for new opportunities in life. Difficulties become means of personal development: even blind people can successfully manage in the world of seeing people. The greatest joy for Jaanika is her little daughter Oona, her true sunshine.
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Adventure High

2004 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Five young men - including the filmmaker - take a four-month break from their responsible adult lives to travel by bicycle from Mongolia to Nepal hoping to experience old-fashioned travel adventures. Their journey leads them through diverse landscapes and harsh conditions (the Gobi Desert where water and roads are equally difficult to find; the flooded dirt roads and landslides caused by heavy rain in the Himalayan mountains). They are exposed to diverse cultures and meet fascinating people (Mongolian nomads, Buddhist pilgrims, yak herders in the Himalayas). As relationship dynamics develop and change within the group, the five travelers very different ...
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That’s How It Is

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Dawn of War

Leonhard Lapin. Process

Maria ’s Paradise

In the World of Beholders

Adventure High