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Loads of Shit

Original title: Sitta kanti

2024 | Documentary | Director: Madis Reimund

This job is full of shit, but somebody has to do it!

Fecal truck driver Erki, portable toilet renter Toomas, and sewage treatment plant expert Andra are active and cheerful Estonian people who have chosen a profession that is usually considered dirty and shameful, and which no one dreams of as a child. However, in modern times, everyone needs the work and service of these people. Everything that is related to toilet is still a taboo and people feel embarrassed and ashamed even talking about their natural needs. And of course, no one wants to know what happens to the result after the toilet lid is closed. Estonians' toilet culture is actually ...
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Attorney Monika Mägi

Original title: Monika

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ken Saan, Steven-Hristo Evestus

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career will argue.

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career, meet and argue. They are focused to talk about real-life arguments. Only the main character Monika can answer for our questions. All of this is happening outside of the courtroom playground, and our talks are mostly focused on life-related topics. The portrait story also sheds light on the human nuances in the court. From the counterpart Estonian top prosecutors and advocates will talk.
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Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Miguel Llansó

Two special agents are tasked with protecting the computer programme that runs a future metropolis. However, the ‘Soviet Union’ virus soon starts wreaking havoc. A delirious ride!

Special Agent DT Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin. The night he’s about to present his resignation letter a strange cyber virus attacks the agency’s operating system effectively sidetracking his plans. Traveling into virtual reality dimensions, Gagano and his partner will infiltrate the system to eradicate the virus. Things however, will not go as planned when the virus takes over the system and starts creating games to compete against itself, leaving the entire world’s stability in jeopardy. Are Gagano and the CIA peons in these sinister games? While the virus capabilities start ...
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Ten & Ninety

Original title: Kümme, üheksakümmend

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Martti Helde

Portrait documentary about a ten-year-old boy who dreams about the career as a musician in a symphony orchestra.

Kert is a ten-year-old boy from Rapla county, Estonia, who is enchanted by classical music. His days are filled with school, performances and interest towards electronics. In order to move closer to his dream job, Kert has been regularly practising flute for the past three years as well as visiting the rehearsalt of ERSO (Estonian National Symphony Orchestra). Kert – a boy like an orchestra.
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Small Towns

Original title (in Estonian): "Väikelinnad"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Ahto Nuut

"Small Towns", based on the song "Depressiivsed Eesti väikelinnad" ("Depressing Estonian small towns"), investigates the thoughts of typical Estonian small town inhabitants on living in their community and oppurtunities in life.
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Inner voice

Original title: Sisekõla

2014 | Students film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Madis Reimund

What is happening to a composer when his creation is leaving his private space to our common space.

2014 has been a special year to young composer Pärt Uusberg - the last rehearsals and concert for his Master's Thesis at Estonian Music Academy – composer’s programme “Beauty of a Night” and presentation of his choral piece “Muusika” at Estonian Song Celebration. The film is observing what is happening with the composer at times when his inner tunes are leaving his private space to our common space. It is an inwards-looking musical journey, portraying everyday beauty and anguish of a composer’s profession.
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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Construction Artist Toomas Rein

Original title: Ehituskunstnik Toomas Rein

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary by Peeter Brambat about architect Toomas Rein.

Documentary introduces Toomas Rein, a unique and creatively uncompromising construction artist. For several decades, Rein has been one of the most influential persons in Estonian architecture, one of the top architects. Among his life's work (including about 120 buildings and projects), the objects that Toomas Rein designed when working under EKE Projekt in 1967-1986 emerge the most - it was the era when innovative heads of collective farms commissioned modern office buildings from architects. Toomas Rein has been an active architect also at the beginning of 21st century. Documentary follows the construction of a grand project in Laulasmaa - the ...
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