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Poop, Spring and the Others: Meatballs and Dumplings

Original title: Frikadellid ja pelmeenid

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Heiki Ernits, Meelis Arulepp

The parable about human relations, differences and misunderstandings.

Meatballs live in their box in the refrigerator, and anything outside of that is forbidden and terrifying. In their opinion, the main threat in the outside world are mythical dumplings that no one has ever seen. But it just so happens that the two meatballs embark on an adventurous voyage of discovery outside the box. By the end of the journey, the world has changed not only for them, but also for all the other meatballs living in the box. And even better.
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Hunger

Original title in Estonian: Nälg

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Katariina Aule

A short film about the last Estonian family who, despite their hunger, did not want to embrace eating potatoes.

A short film about the last Estonian family who, despite their hunger, did not want to embrace eating potatoes. The father of the family takes it upon himself to solve the problem, and before his son Jass knows it, the dining table is ready again. Only questions remain, at what price and for how long?
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Lullaby

Original title in Estonian: Hällilaul

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Ville Niemi

The story of a mentally ill Laura who loses custody of her 4-year-old daughter.

Inspired by a tragedy that happened in Finland in 2020, HÄLLILAUL is a story about mentally ill Laura, who loses custody of her 4-year-old daughter Klaara. This drives Laura to “kidnap” Klaara from the kindergarten. When father, Sander, realizes what has happened, he hurries to Laura’s house. Knowing that Laura has abused Klaara before, Sander tries to get the child out of the house. However, his actions only push Laura deeper and deeper into her delusions and finally drive her onto the verge of killing Klaara.
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Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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The Butterfly Man

Original title: Liblikmees

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Edina Csüllög

A dream-like, uncanny short film telling about Anselm who dreams to become a magician.

Lonesome and clumsy Anselm works as a dedicated assistant to a famous magician Ernesto in Boruslawski Circus. Anselm secretly practises tricks as his deepest wish is to become a great magician himself. Finally the big moment arises for him when Ernesto bewitches himself and disappears. For a moment, Anselm becomes a great favourite of the audience, but his miraculous ability to conjure up butterflies from himself becomes fatal both for himself and for the circus.
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The Look

Original title (in Estonian): "Pilk"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Mairi Sõelsepp

A fiction film about a man who lives with a curse.

"Pilk" is a movie that shows how love can spring where it is least inspected and turn things upside down and downside up. It shows how even if sometimes it feels like everything is going in the wrong direction and there is no escape, things happens for a good reason and can have a positive outcome.
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Clock Stopped at 6.30

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Vilnite

Time stops when a young woman Emily contemplates after experiencing a sexual violence act. Will she manage to get over her tragedy and find purpose to live again?

Film is a french-style visual poem about a young woman –Emily, who becomes a victim of a rape. She seeks asylum in her countryside house, where she grew up. Soon Emily discovers the struggle that lays in front of her, as she must once again find reasons to live. 
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Distance

Original title (in Estonian): "Distants"

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

On a misty sea drifts a lonely boat. While unseen danger lurks in the fog, the boat's motor is out of order and visibility is as clear as the relationship between the two men sitting in the boat. Do they get out of the mist? Or is it already too late?
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Heading To My Wedding

Original title in Estonian: "Peata pulmad"

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Sandra Zaneva

Young woman discovers in her wedding day morning, that she doesn't have a head. Her only thought is to quickly find her head and continue living like nothing had happened.
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Mushrooming

Original title: Seenelkäik

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

The debut feature film directed by Toomas Hussar is a horror comedy about a politician who loses his direction both when picking mushrooms in the forest as well as in the social system.

Politician Aadu Kägu and his wife Viivi go to pick mushrooms in order to take a break from reputation campaign. They will be accompanied by Zäk - a hitchhiking penniless rock star. To avoid public mushroom forests, they haphazardly go to some remote deep woods that looks wild and deserted. Soon the three of them find out that they are lost. At the same time, a media scandal explodes - investigative journalists suspect that Kägu has misused public funds. Both in the woods and in town a battle of life and death begins.
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