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Bad Hair

Original title: Karv

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Oskar Lehemaa

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Insecure and balding Leo has closed himself in his apartment. A mysterious hair growth liquid arrives at his doorstep and Leo uses it to fix up his looks. The liquid causes a series of grotesque metamorphoses with Leo’s hair and skin. Leo tries desperately to get bodily changes under control as the events of the evening quickly turn into chaos.
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Life Before Life

Original title: Elu enne elu

2016 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

Truth is a relative concept. Depending on the point of view, everybody can be right.

In a beautiful flowery meadow, the miracle of life is taking place. A new life is born. The newborn butterfly Bruno flies into the wide world to look for something better, not realizing that he was born at the best place ever. Soon he finds himself at a big bush. The leaves of the bush give off a substance narcotic for insects. The busy life going on in the bush impresses Bruno. This is what he’s been looking for. But life and death walk hand in hand here, and just before landing on a leaf, Bruno is eaten up. Only ...
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How I Saved Africa

Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

Siisi is an active and attractive young woman who'd have enough energy to send Estonia's first spaceship to Mars. But instead, the urge to make the world a better place sends Siisi far away to Uganda, where she plans to open a café with the help of donators to offer work to the local young handicapped people. The start of the project is dashing but as the times goes by the more Siisi's idealism confronts the local working culture, sexual prejudice and economic inevitability because in a country that is one of the biggest coffee bean exporters only 0.6 percent ...
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Sun is a Good Child

Original title: Päike on hea laps

2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Filmmaker Manfred Vainokivi portrays physics teacher Mart Kuurme teaches physics and astronomy to children in Africa.

Mart Kuurme is a lifetime physics teacher. He arrives to Kongo village in Northern Ghana on October 21st, 2013 in order to start working as a volunteer teacher of physics and astronomy to local children. Solar eclipse is expected in Ghana on November 3rd. Mart carefully prepares for the event: observations of the starry sky at late night, physics lessons in a local secondary school. The film also reflects the life of local people, often accompanied by dancing - they dance everywhere and all the time, either in football competitions, funerals or harvesting parties, even in churches. Mart goes to ...
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Blood Type

Original title (in Estonian): "Veregrupp"

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Leeni Linna
Inherent Obligations

Original title: Kaasasündinud kohustused

2008 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets
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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The Dress

Original title: Kleit

2007 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Girlin Bassovskaja

A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them.

A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows a beautiful-exiting life with kitchen utensils? We don't see the woman never intact, though we move along her body, rather along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same. From time to time different insects appear as to laugh over the woman's innocent dreams, just as guzzling and unreliable dreams. They predict the end and death, nobody knows - through guillotine or kitchen knife.
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Taste of Life

Original title: Elu maitse

2006 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

The connection between love and food is examined in the film Taste of Life.

The connection between love and food is examined in the film Taste of Life. Like the food chain, the love chain also exists – in order to love someone, that someone must also love. And just like the food chain, the love chain is also circular and ends where it starts. Through black humour, the film attempts to dissect the nature of love and to arrive at an understanding of what life tastes like.
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Behind the Door

Original title: Ukse taga

2005 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andrus Tuisk

Short film directed by Andrus Tuisk about two young women who struggle with their own fear and a man covered with blood.

Two young women arrive at a solitary countryhouse to spend a weekend. However, the weekend won't turn out as planned but becomes a true nightmare when a strange man dressed in black emerges from darkness. He lures around the house and tries to get in. Horrified young women try to protect themselves no matter what.
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