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Lumi ja Leenu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

Silvi is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use. Unfortunately Silvi sees no future in keeping the cows, so the time has come to send her two beloved animals away.
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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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Landscape patterns

Original title: Maastiku mustrid

2014 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Riho Västrik

The diversity of Estonian landscapes is like a unique patchwork quilt. It is loved by local fauna and is a part of the Estonian genetic code.

The nature documentary filmmakers move through all four seasons and four basic landscape types in Estonia: the swamp, the forest, the coast and the wooded meadow. Everything that appears in front of the camera lens, including people, will become a part of the landscape pattern. People have habitated Estonian territory for more than 10 thousand years. Withdrawal of the ice cap created a habitat that has been adjusted to human needs during thousands of years. Lots of fields, pasture lands and hayfields have been created; the forests have been cut and planted. Unnecessary profit making has been avoided. The variety ...
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The End of Milk

Original title: Piimariik

2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur-Paul Põldma

The owner of a small dairy farm holds old-fashion cow keeping in esteem and goes to sell milk himself.

Today's milk production in Estonia moves to the direction of big cattles and automated farms. Rein Külama still runs the archaic small diary farm. Together with his wife they take care of their cattle themselves and sell milk to people. Already for the past twenty years Rein has had a ritual – twice a week he drives through Maardu and former summer cottages district in order to sell milk. Despite the fact that there are raw milk automatic stations in supermarkets, the old-fashioned milk selling still has its magic and the clientele.
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All Musicians Are Bastards

Original title: Kõik muusikud on kaabakad

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature, Students film | Director: Heleri Saarik

The full-length feature is the debut film directed by Heleri Saarik. The film is a visual love-letter to music, an impressionistic drama about the deams of young generations. Besides the bitter love story, the film expresses protesting against the confusion both in society and in the protagonists of the film.

Leila is a singer with an interesting voice, fascinated by surreal electronic sounds instead of conventional jazz. Unfortunately, avant garde won't pay rent so Leila gets involved in various forms of buying, selling, and offering services in the most unexpected places and situations. Self-destructive lifestyle and cruel rivarly in music business make Leila think about the line between the two different realities - the illusory ghost world and the real society where human relationships are used in order to get access into the lonely and desolate world of things, prestige and public attention.
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Eight Days a Week

Original title: Kaheksa päeva nädalas

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ago Ruus

Tiit Niilo, the owner of Nopri farm in Võru county, has decided to continue farmkeeping in the lands of his forefathers despite all hardships. He works away for his dairy farm eight days a week.

Tiit Niilo comes from an old-established Southern Estonian family and builds his own dairy farm, he also tries to save the local school and hopes to bring the problematic issues of his home village to the Parliament. Tiit has five children - the strong family farm looks promising. So he works his fingers to the bone in order to keep his farm alive, to preserve rural life and to satisfy his ancestors. Both positive and negative aspects of living in the countryside are discussed in the documentary.
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This Lovely, Nice Polled Cattle

Original title: Ilus armas nudi

2000 | Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus

Estonian polled livestock is a part of the cultural heritage of Estonian country and its nation - it is a similar symbol for Estonia as Estonian horse, runic verse, wooded meadow or coastal pasture.

The destiny of Estonian polled livestock has never been easy, neither during the era of manor owners nor collective farms. There were about 20 000 polled cattle animals before the war in Estonia - today, there are less than 500 animals and the species has been included in the list of world's endangered species. Enthusiasts still make an effort to fight for "their" cattle, but for how long? The documentary was completed for the 80th anniversary of founding the Estonian Society of Polled Livestock Farmers.
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Time to Love

Original title: Aeg armastada

1999 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin

Seven actors from the amateur theatre in Tabivere are people with different backgrounds who have accepted the painful setbacks in their lives and don't need much to feel happy.

Seven middle-aged people live and work in a small place called Tabivere in Central Estonia. In their sincere and heartfelt interviews they openly speak about their ups and downs in life. Life in a remote rural place is not easy as many locals are unemployed. Even those who have a job won't be able to afford much. The lives of the seven people portrayed in the film have not been easy - everyone has experienced certain tragic events in their lives. Despite that, all of them are still able to feel happiness, appreciate small things in life, love their close ...
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Torch Trotters

Original title: Tulekummardajad

1999 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Heini Drui