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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: a Rapid Love Story

Original title: Lisa Limone ja Maroc Orange: tormakas armulugu

2013 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

Immigration, Love and Music! Lisa Limone is first S3D animated opera in stop-motion. Topics of immigration, love and money are handeled theatrically in musical sauce.

Target group for this 72-minute puppet opera is whole family – internationally recognized director, composer and animators assure that movie will give kids tons of fun in detailed puppet world and at the same time their parents can enjoy socially critical humor. Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Lisa’s father is a businessman, owner of a ketchup factory and tomato plantation. He loves money. And so the opera begins.
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Gotland-Saaremaa. Sõsarsaared

1999 | Documentary | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart
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Escape

Title in Estonian: Põgenemine

1991 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Historical documentary by Andres Sööt and Jaak Lõhmus about Estonians and Estonian Swedes who fled from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.

Historical retrospective to the escape of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944. The documentary begins and ends with the episodes of crackling logfires and rippling waves in summer 1990 by the Estonian coasts where 46 years ago the boats filled with refugees left Estonia across the stormy Baltic Sea. Photographs, rare film footage and personal recollections of refugees express their journey and the further destiny of the refugees during the first post-war years. The film is an emotional mosaic about the great saga of escaping the war.
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Saa vabaks, Eesti meri

1991 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Kusmin
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The Estonian Gymnasium in Lapland

Title in Estonian: Eesti Gümnaasium Lapimaal

1950 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The excursion of the schoolkids from Stockholm Estonian Gymnasium to Northern Sweden and Norway.

An electric train arrives at Björkliden station, schoolkids and teachers leave the station. Views of nature, Silverfallet waterfall etc. The schoolkids get the hiking patches and study the map. After giving first aid all of them take the train that will cross the border of Sweden and Norway. In Norwegian harbour town Narvik the schoolkids take the boat trip and continue the train ride, they eat in the dining car. Skis are taken out from the baggage car in Åre, Sweden. After waxing the skis and fastening the ski crampons schoolkids go to skiing. The film finishes with the views ...
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From the Coast of Estonia to the Coast of Sweden

Title in Estonian: Eesti rannast Rootsi randa

1945 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Swedes leave Estonia in August 1944. Life of Estonians in Mölle Refugee Centre, Sweden in 1945.

Departure of the expatriate Swedes and Estonians from Estonia to Sweden in 1944 (recorded during August 27-28, 1944). Life of Estonian people in Mölle Refugee Centre in Sweden (filmed in 1945). Loading packages on the truck. Truck ride to the harbour of Haapsalu. People waiting for boarding in the harbour. People are eating. Schooner "Juhan" by the pier. Security police is giving out departure permissions, the cameraman focuses on Ludwig Lienhard. Horse carts loaded with suitcases by the pier. Mother is breastfeeding her baby. Checking the lists. The camera is on Harald Perten. Estonian Red Cross car in the harbour. ...
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