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New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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Elizabeth`s Playground

Original title: Elizabethi mänguväljak

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maris Kerge, Erik Norkroos

Little Elizabeth is traveling around in a miraculous world of ballet.

Four-year-old Elizabeth was born into the family of ballet dancers, so she has spent majority of her life with her parents at the ballet theatre. She knows every member of the ballet company at the Estonian National Ballet and has seen every ballet performance for numerous times. Elizabeth loves, even adores ballet. Would she be different if she were raised in a different environment? The documentary shows little Elizabeth's journey through the fairy-tale like world of theatre where the real world meets the illusory one and fairy-tales come true.
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Fast Eddy's Old News

Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised

2015 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?

In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?
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Highway Patrol Officer

Original title: Kiirtee kordnik

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld, Meelis Muhu

Motorcycle policemen are observing the drivers exceeding the speed limit on the roads.

The police officer on a motorbike has to catch the speeders on Estonian highways. In the name of road safety, motorbike policemen risk every day their lives - it is not the question whether a biker falls but when he falls. Toomas Kivilo is one of the few motorbike patrol officers who has passed a special training. Every spring, he steps out from his safe patrol car in order to take out the powerful motorbike and to speed into the wild hell of highway traffic.
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Mesipuu poole

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Cherry Tobacco

Original title: Kirsitubakas

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Lucavsala

Original title: Prügi mahapanek keelatud!

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Documentary directed by Jaak Kilmi about Lucavsala (Lutsusaar) in the heart of Riga, Latvia and about the battle of the local gardening cooperative for existence.

Lucavsala (Lutsusaar) is an island in almost central Riga, in the middle of the River Daugava. In 1930s, there were farm houses and herds of cows in the island. After the war the island was divided into gardening lots for the workers of Soviet big industries. The spontaneous life and activities in the gardening cooperative in Lucavsala is opening up through the humorous details and contrasts. The protagonist Rasma, a 76-year-old self-initiated chairwoman of the gardening cooperative, checks the maintenance in the island, reprimands the lazy ones and the drunkards, collects taxes and pokes her nose into other people's matters. ...
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Lusmägi INC.

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marta Pulk

Twin brothers from a small town have courage and ability to dream.

Dreaming is a skill. The documentary tells the story about twin brothers from a small town Paide - Rainer and Ragnar Lusmägi. When they were secondary school students, the brothers came to the idea to establish a student company. They were inspired by Ragnar's hobby of guitar playing - he ordered plectrums from abroad. In 2011, they won the contest of youth business ideas and started to develop their own company selling guitar accessories for musicians. They also have another successful business Praktikum that provides young people with training opportunities. These two young men have courage to dream about the ...
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Searching for the Light

Original title: Otsides valgust

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui

Portrait documentary directed by Heini Drui about Raivo Hein, a successful internet businessman, astrophotographer, adventurer and traveler.

Raivo Hein is a successful internet businessman, amateur astronomist, astrophotographer and traveler. He is both an idealist and a materialist. Raivo is probably the first cosmonaut in Estonia since he has the ticket for the space trip organized by sir Richard Branson. Raivo believes in science, common sense and the bright future of the humankind. He believes that the 1000-year-old man is already born. Raivo contemplates on the future of humanity as well as the mystery of life and the universe. The subjects of truth, its existence and the ways of reaching it are being discussed by Raivo, astrophysicist Jaan ...
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