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Hit Big

Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

"Hit Big" revolves around Marjaleena, a 60-year-old, boozed-up former beauty pageant star who left Finland for Spain's Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot for Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko. One day, they hear that Marjaleena's husband, Worm, will be released after 20 years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist. Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions.
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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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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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director:

Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

Kenya is mostly a relatively peaceful land in the African context, but when it comes to elections then the hell is out. Thousands of people were killed in the violent events that hit Kenya after elections in 2008. It is the year of 2017 and once again an election year in Kenya. Most security experts of different politicians and public authorities in Kenya are confident that the 2007 bad scenario will recur and even worse than ever before. The director Ken Saan invites longtime war reporter Ivar Heinmaa to join him, to guide in the war situation and share the tricks ...
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Soviet Hippies

Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

A wild flower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement take you into the psychedelic underground of 1970s. In search of freedom and happiness under the thumb of the strict political regime a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds and other long-haired drop-outs created their own System in the Soviet Union. Years later, a group of eccentric hippies take a road journey to Moscow where people still gather annually on the 1st of June to commemorate a tragic event in 1971, when thousands of hippies were arrested by the KGB.
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My Condolences

Original title: Kaastundeavaldus

2013 | Feature film, Short | Director: Margus Paju

Suspense film full of black humour directed by Margus Paju tells about the seemingly decent family that practises weed trafficking.

A family growing weed faces a bad surprise when their daughter brings a strange young man to their remote home. Mother takes the initiative and the family starts to act as simple country people in order to cover up the tracks. They write the letter of condolence for their deceased neighbour woman. A stranger kindly agrees to offer his help. A cat-and-mouse game begins where all counterparts try to outsmart the other while hiding their true personality.
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The Class

Original title: Klass

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

The drama directed by Ilmar Raag is based on real stories of school bullying, following the process of growing violence culminating with a tragic denouement. The screenplay has been written in collaboration with the participating schoolchildren.

This is a story about honor and dignity. A sixteen-year-old boy happens to protect his fellow classmate while the latter is being bullied by others. There is no way back any more - he has to go on protecting his friend. As a result, he must confront with the rest of his classmates, even the so-called normal ones. He is pushed away from the micro-community of young people. From that moment, unjustice becomes the main subject of the story. How much unjustice can one's dignity take? Where is the line between rebellion and violence?
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Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed

Original title: Metsavennad voodi ees

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.

In Estonian forests, there are thousands of graves of bushwhackers known only from legends. 77-year-old Aino Lepp from Pärnu county, Estonia, is disappointed in the way the state relates to the subject. She has been able to find and rebury about a few dozens of bushwhackers. Every single one of them finds a special place in the old woman's heart. Despite her scarce income, Aino has to drive around estonia in order to take care of the bushwhackers' graves that she has relocated. The more bushwhackers Aino reburies, the more difficult it will become for her since she gets older. ...
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Doktor Stocmann 2 seeria

1988 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Mikk Mikiver