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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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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 Academy of Elegant Aging

Original title: Väärika vananemise akadeemia

2023 | Documentary | Director: Sigrid Salutee

It is a fun insight into the life of a day center for elderly.

The self-help and counseling association for the elderly has been operating in Kadriorg for almost 30 years and is fondly called the "Academy of Elegant Aging". The day center gives elderly people the opportunity to realize themselves and communicate even after their loved ones have passed away. There are 13 committees in the association, starting with the security desk and the library and ending with the cafe and the garden. Simple tasks help seniors feel needed.The house is run by 70 year old Heino, who is one of the few men among the lively ladies. He is the one running ...
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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Estonian Rhapsody

Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this.
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Poop and Spring

Original title: Kaka ja kevad

2021 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: René Vilbre, Meelis Arulepp

A wee story of mighty love.

The movie spins a melodramatic tale of longing, friendship, and birth and death of love. Love dies often. People often die for love and die with their beloved. Yet love is essential for the circle of life to keep turning! A stray dog gives birth to the main character, Poop, on a marvellous spring day. The young Poop befriends a Sparrow, who educates him in ways of life. Observing loving sparrow family’s ventures from his shanty throughout autumn and winter, a desire for a beloved arises in Poop’s chest. Along with spring, Poop discovers a glorious Buttercup growing right next to ...
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Snowbirds

Original title: Kliimapagulased

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

The Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series have made Ave Nahkur one of the best known naivist artists in her homeland. For years she and her partner Imre have run an art café in Raudoja and been active in the field of tourism and art. Lively and straightforward Ave hates cold and dark winter and the depression that comes with it. At one moment things have gone so bad that she decides to make a turn in her life and move to a mountain village in La Gomera, one of the Spain's Canary Islands. Making a new ...
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Life in the Factory Basement

Original title: Elu kombinaadi keldris

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Triin Ruumet

At the end of the world there is a cafe where we all once will meet. The documentary tells a story of a person, the system that surrounds him and communication between these two parameters.

The story of a person, the system that surrounds him and the communication between these two parameters. The protagonist of the film, an electrician Ago Pettai of a South-Estonian hospital represents a very healthy anarchic lifestyle in the general system and in the medical system, that part of the structure that gives the possibility for that kind of anarchy amid great illness. The film poses a question: What it means to be well and is a healthy mental outlook somehow connected with it all?
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Hi, Rasma!

Original title: Hei, Rasma!

2015 | Documentary | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-production documentary about the residents of the coastal villages of Northern Estonia, the ancient coastal law and folklore related to the Latvian steamboat Rasma. The documentary has optimistic and funny undertone while introducing specific episodes from cultural history.

Documentary portrays Estonians through one of the most ancient traditions of coastal villages – the coastal law. According to the legend, a Latvian steamboat Rasma collided with an underwater mine on the coast of Northern Estonia on July 5, 1941. The captain decided to direct the shop to the banks of Mohn island in order to save the passengers and a child, as well as the equipment of sewing factory evacuated from Riga, Husqvarna bicycles, grain and flour. Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-produced documentary is searching for the bikes and sewing machines that have come from the board of Rasma, but also the ...
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Life with Herman H. Rott

Original title: Elu Herman H. Rott'iga

2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Chintis Lundgren

Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.

Herman is a rat who enjoys heavy drinking, loud grind music and chess. He doesn't care much for cleaning and the disorder in his apartment only makes him feel more at home. One day a very tidy cat who has a weakness for messy macho-men, decides to move in. She also brings a vacuum cleaner, a piano, and what's worse - a collection of classical music records.
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