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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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Bermuda

Original title: Bermuda

1998 | Animation, Cartoon, Students film, Animation, Produced in foreign university | Director: Ülo Pikkov

The animated film BERMUDA is a film about love. It tells the story of the life of a seaman with a wooden leg and a mermaid living in the midst of the sand dunes of a dried-up sea.

The mermaid is completely dependent on the seaman, who brings her water every day. A flute-playing centaur enters the routine life of the seaman and mermaid. The centaur and mermaid fall in love. The seaman with his wooden leg decides to destroy the newcomer, but along with the centaur he destroys his former position of absolute power over the mermaid and becomes totally dependent on her. This is a drama involving three characters, neither of whom are entirely good nor bad. Characters who long for significant changes always become bogged down in their own past when those changes arrive. ...
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Dear Mister Moon

Original title: Kallis Härra Q

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rao Heidmets

The debut feature film directed by Rao Heidmets is based on the children's story "Dear Mister Moon" by Aino Pervik and tells about children's yearning for genuine family relations.

When two stepsisters - 13-year-old blonde Sigrid and 7-year-old dark-complexioned Saara - meet each other for the first time, it will turn out that their grandmother has been taken to a retirement home. The girls make up their minds to steal grandma from the home and hide her in an attic-room where they could be all together. Everything goes unexpectedly well until drunkards, hoodlums and blackmailers interfere and the girls have to know exactly what they are doing in order to escape the gang.
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Long-distance journey

Original title: Kaugsõit

1973 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

TV documentary directed by Andres Sööt about the daily life of long-distance seafarers in Arctic waters.

Documentary made in the noisy harbour and the silence of the sea, in a stormy ocean and on a coastal ice, telling the daily life on long-distance ships and about the seamen on these ships. The filmmakers were on the long-distance journey on a cargo ship "Pavlik Lariškin" to Canada.
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Landing

Original title: Maaletulek

1972 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The psychological drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk about love, marriage and a love triangle.

Reet loves her husband Rein who is a steersman on a long-distance boat; yet, she is worn out by his long absences. It seems to Reet that Rein cares more for his work than for her. Rein does love his job a lot, but he loves his wife with the same passion. He won't understand why his absence is such a big issue for Reet since women have always waited for their sailor husbands back home from the sea. Mart, their family friend, is in love with Reet and cannot stand to see her suffer. Mardi võimuses on pakkuda Reedale ...
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The Stone of Blood

Original title: Verekivi

1972 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Madis Ojamaa

The adventure film directed by Madis Ojamaa is based on a historical fact from the "Livonian Chronicles" by Balthasar Russow, telling about the execution of Baron Johann von Uexküll in Tallinn in 1535.

When Baron von Uexküll and his fellow pillagers lead another ship onto rocks with false lights, they will have no mercy on no one on the ship. One sailor, Andreas, is able to escape the ship and make it to Tallinn with the help of farm girl Jaana and Matis who once fleed from Uexküll's as a slave. This means that Uexküll's history will be revealed; so the baron sends his servants to capture the annoying witness. Instead of catching Andreas the servants bring Matis along. As they say, city air makes you free, and Matis has become a free ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1970 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
The Midday Ferry

Original title: Keskpäevane praam

1967 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk depicts the way people act and think in a crisis situation. The screenplay by Juhan Smuul includes both elements of a disaster film as well as a witty dialogue.

Very different people meet on a ferry from Virtsu to Kuivastu on a June day: a hairdresser with her educated husband; her handicapped brother with his sister's neglected child; four female students of linguistics and four young specialists; a group of islanders returning home; and two stowaways - a young couple in love. The steersman of the ferry is having a hangover and breaks the ferry regulation while letting two fuel vehicles on board. It turns out during the trip that there is a truck on board where something has caught the flame.
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Kolmest kaheteistkümneni

1965 | Musical film | Director: Virve Aruoja, Astrid Lepa
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Vacation trip Greenfield, Boston

1938 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Holiday trip of John Baltsar's family to Greenfield and the views of Boston, USA.

The film opens with boys walking next to the horse-rake. The film continues with depicting the city views of Boston, including public buildings, alleys, cars, bridges and parks. We can see George Washington Equestrian Monument in Boston, French King Bridge, boatriders on a pond, alleys and park visitors. A view into the Baltsars' home garden. Passenger ferry going to the island of Martha's Vineyard. There is a crowd waiting to go aboard on the pier. There are fuel vehicles of that time waiting ashore. The film shows the monolith bridge and the building with columns on the shore. At the ...
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