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The Wayfarers

Original title: Rändajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Sepping

Three Siberian Estonian women are looking for paradise here and outside the borders.

It's a story about three Siberian Estonian women of different generations whose ancestors were deported from Estonia as criminals in the 19th century. Instead of prison, they ended up in paradise - a fertile land where people quickly rebuilt their lives. One hundred and seventy years later, the situation has reversed: some have already "got used to the life here", but for others, on the eve of the war, it is the last minute to travel to paradise, which on this occasion is Estonia.
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Estonian Rhapsody

Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this.
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Pornography and a Bottle of Booze

Original title: Pornofilm ja pudel viina

2022 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Grete Kaio, Markus Gregori Kullamaa

The plot involves nothing else but drinking a bottle of vodka and watching a porn movie.

Jürgen is an educated businessman, in whose seemingly harmonious everyday life, a shadow of emptiness casts a dark veil over his soul. On one ordinary day, where nothing special happens, Jürgen must finally confront himself and understand what is truly important in life. He must decide whether to swim or sink.
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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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Estonian Funeral

Original title: Eesti matus

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

Andres, a young man who sells retirement insurances in shopping centres, meets a dark-skinned girl and falls in love.Lee, the newfound girl of his dreams called, is an open-minded world traveler who does not understand the „workaholism“ of Estonians nor the need to own land at all costs. With naive dreams, the young lovers want to go travel the world in search of happiness, but they have to take an unexpected small detour first. Andres has to go to his grandfather's funeral and unsuspectingly takes Lee with him. At the funeral, a colorful company of friends, family and neighbours have gathered ...
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Uus meremaale

2021 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories | Director:
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Dawn of War

Original title: O2

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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Attorney Monika Mägi

Original title: Monika

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ken Saan, Steven-Hristo Evestus

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career will argue.

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career, meet and argue. They are focused to talk about real-life arguments. Only the main character Monika can answer for our questions. All of this is happening outside of the courtroom playground, and our talks are mostly focused on life-related topics. The portrait story also sheds light on the human nuances in the court. From the counterpart Estonian top prosecutors and advocates will talk.
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Virago

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kerli Kirch Schneider

In the village of Virago, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.

A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. This is the life and the death of the men in Virago — a village where for centuries no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday. Until today.
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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