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Poop, Spring and the Others: Peter the Beetle

Original title: Sitikas Peeter

2022 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp

All is well that ends well.

This is a bittersweet story about a small Beetle called Peter, who has a dream to perform in front of the big crowd at the Zoo. He leaves home to make his dream come true. Unfortunately, he is not noticed by the people due to his small size…… All is well that ends well - back at home he finds his audience on his own size.
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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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Television Fairy Tale

Original title in Estonian: "Telesinine unistus"

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Greta Külvet, Kätlin Karama
The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Miriam's Green Spots

Original title: Miriami rohelised täpid

2012 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Priit Tender

Little brother falls ill and gets all of the attention and care of the rest of the family.

Little brother falls ill and gets all of the attention and care of the rest of the family. Miriam feels unhappy. In the end she cannot think of anything else besides painting the spots of the illness on her own face. The chicken is definitely involved, and experiences analogous emotions to Miriam’s.
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The Reflection

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Annamari Kenk, Tiina Haak

Media students Tiina Haak and Annameri Kenki's first-year work is a story about a lonely young man who works as a window washer, but dreams of something else.

One day, a lonely young man earning bread as a window cleaner sees a couple in love passing by. He has an urgent desire to find someone by his side and starts to act in this direction soon.
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Georg

Original title: Georg

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The drama directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the life of Georg Ots - one of the most well-known Estonian opera singers of all times. The screenplay by Mati Põldre and Aleksandr Borodyanski is based on the memoirs of Asta Ots.

The life of Georg Ots (1920-1975), the most well-known Estonian opera singer, was full of changes and difficulties. He started with the career of an engineer; later during the times of war he found himself as a musician in Yaroslavl. Georg Ots's extraordinary talent and dedication made him a nationwide star in the whole Soviet Union; however, there are two sides of every coin. It is a very personal story about love and marriage, celebrity and jealousy, self-realization and self-destruction.
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Casting

Original title: Casting

2006 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Ken Saar holds a casting call in order to find main stars for a non-existent Bollywood film, befooling the jury and the participants.

Scandalous TV producer Ken Saan works on a new reality TV series "Bollywood" where the grand prix for the participants will be the main character in a real Bollywood feature film. During four days, Ken together with the jury (Andrus Vaarik, Anne Veski, Maria Rahula, Mr Triphati, the Indian ambassador in Estonia) look for the partipants for the new programme in various places in Estonia. The documentary that looks like a funny road movie won't reveal the borders between the real and the fictional world.
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Springtime Wonderband

Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.
Weitzenberg street

Original title: Weitzenbergi tänav

2002 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A man dreams of a woman. The woman is, in turn, interested in someone else.

A man dreams of a woman. The woman is, in turn, interested in someone else. The man abandons his attempts to attract the woman’s attention because he has discovered a new object of desire. The woman, in turn, becomes interested in the man. The man, though, is interested only in his new favourite, due to whom the man soon finds himself in danger. The man barely escapes – instead, those whom both the man and the woman desire perish. The man and the woman find each other again…
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