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Billions - Eve

Original title in Estonian: Miljardid - Eva

2020 | Students film, Music video | Director: Katariina Ratasepp

Music video for the story of Eve.

We see an initiation rite of a boy becoming a man. The rite has three parts – the procession, the fight and death/rebirth. There is also Eve, who embodies the Woman and Life.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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I Won´t Come Back

Original title: Я не вернусь

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya – reliving her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced to rewrite her life. In I Won’t Come Back, Ilmar Raag, director of the ...
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Person is Missing

Original title: Inimene kadus

2000 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

In a small country Estonia every year about 100 people go missing. Their close ones call for help both heavenly and earth forces in order to find the missing family members.

The documentary follows three events: the mysterious disappearance of Eljo, the mother of four; searches of Jura, a young Russian man; and the story of Heidi who got lost and media went crazy about it. The close ones of the missing people call for help both heavenly and earthly forces: they make inquiries at a police station and visit clairvoyants. An incomprehensible situation makes people emotional, even Estonians with their non-existent temperament won't hide their annoyance and desperation, not to speak about hot-tempered Russians. The documentary raises the question: how is it possible that so many people go missing in ...
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Deserters

Title in Estonian: Väekargajad

1993 | Feature film, Short | Director: Talvo Pabut

Film about the choices made in the name of continuation of life during the Great Northern War in Estonia plundered by plague.

Estonian villages have become almost deserted as a result of plague and the Great Northern War. However, one woman has survived in a farm. Two starving deserters arrive to her farm – a Swede from the King Carl's army and an Estonian from the Imperial Russian army. There is not enough food for two men in the house so one has to leave, but which one? The woman has to make the decision.
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Näkimadalad IV jagu

1988 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Olav Neuland
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Vabastuse tund

1969 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
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Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
Creators of the Legend

Original title: Legendi loojad

1963 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Evald Mägi

Amateur feature film produced in 1963, co-financed by the expatriate Estonians living in Canada and based on Eerik Heine’s original script. The film portrays conditions in Estonia during 1946-1947, fight of the ‘forest brothers’ with the occupying forces and worry towards the outburst of the next war, mixed with the hope to restore the independence of the Republic of Estonia.

In 1946-47, a group of resistance fighters led by captain Lembit Mõtus hide in a bunker of the ’forest brothers’, waiting for liberation of Estonia and struggle with local Soviet authorities. After a rape attempt in the woods, Lembit's pretty bride Linda moves to live with the ’forest brothers’. Local fellow villager working at railway informs them about the arriving train transporting money. They rob the train and decide to share the million Roublesa the with hundred neighbouring farms for paying compulsory taxes. Villager Endel, forest warden Juhan and his wife Maali get killed in the battle.
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