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Melchior the Apothecary

Original title: Apteeker Melchior

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

Melchior Wakenstede is a clever and curious apothecary who, in addition to healing the sick, solves murders that shake the town. In a medieval world, where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is waiting at the door, and temptation can poison even the most noble ...
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Time Quartet: In The Storm of Roses

Original title: Ajakvartett: Rooside rajus

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director:

The nurse looks after the roses; the grandchild teaches Granny TikTok; ancient Romans walk around in the garden to the sounds of a saxophone. Countries, roads and people branch out in branching times.

The short film is an attempt to visually reflect our time through a specific person, a retired nurse Helgi Kuusik. We see her in her Haanjamaa farm and in her rose garden, which she established years ago while working in Helsinki hospitals and commuting between Estonia and Finland. The brief scenes in an idyllic rural location, staged in the manner of Victorian era paintings, are linked with more realistic shots about Helgi's trip to East-Helsinki to visit her daughter's family.
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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Compartment No. 6

Original title (in Finnish): Hytti nro 6

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juho Kuosmanen

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection
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Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

2018 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt ...
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More than Life

Original title: Enam kui elu

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Indrek Spungin, Taavi Arus

This is the story of the last genuine rock star and poet, of his work, and of the anatomy of a punk band.

Freddy Grenzmann is Estonia’s last rock star and the singer of the punk rock band Psychoterror. He’s also a poet. The rock star phenomenon is beyond ordinary norms. It’s larger than life. It can approvingly be said of Freddy that he isn’t normal – not on stage nor in life. Freddy’s oeuvre and life are equivalent – he gives everything his all. What makes Freddy interesting is not the delight of social or textual games but rather the magnitude of what he puts at stake, the possibility of completely losing himself, and the depth of foreseeable human or metaphysical distress.
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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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Cutting Through

Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

NIcaragua authorities made an agreement with a Hong Kong enterprise HKND to start the greatest navvying work in the world history – to build a 277-metre-long ship canal through the country, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.
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Liquor Rally

Original title (in Finnish): "Raskas"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Christian Schreier, Inkeri Alatalo

Booze Cruise/Raskas is a short documentary film about a childhood shadowed by alcohol. At the same time booze cruise is also a story of the biggest liquor store at the Baltic Sea.
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Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time

Original title: Monoloogid 3D

2011 | Documentary | Director: Arko Okk

The documentary gives a minimalistic portrait about Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia, through the recollections by his contemporaries.

President Lennart Meri is being remembered by his contemporaries Ain Kaalep, Erast Parmasto, Andres Tarand, Veli-Olavi Klami, Aleksandr Bertelov, Ignar Fjuk and Eino Tamberg. Their recollections reanimate the hidden paths and seek for the meaning that was once born there. This is the first 3D documentary produced in Estonia.
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