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Skype Story

Original title: Skype

2024 | Documentary | Director: Kiur Aarma

From the slums of Soviet Estonia to Silicon Valley.

A documentary about the unlikely story behind the birth of SKYPE, a true modern era phenomenon a few billion people have a personal relationship with. Selling Skype, buying it back and re-selling it again is a story which could be from a detective novel. A story full of contrasts – from Soviet era apartment blocks to Silicon Valley. From primitive homemade computer games to private jets. From wild parties to complicated lawsuits. 2003. Two Scandinavian investors and their Estonian tech team overcome big odds to create Skype that turns to become one of the greatest IT success stories of the 21st ...
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An inviting Spring

Original title: Kutsuv kevad

2023 | Documentary, | Director: Marek Vahula

Documentary of the underwater orienteering.

The film is both a documentary and a performance, starring Mark Pusta. In the film, you can learn everything about underwater orienteering, through an underwater story found on the shores of one of the world's best former underwater lakes, Viitna Pikkjärv, between 1984 and 1993, i.e. within 10 years.
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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kiur Aarma
Legends of Winding Roads

Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

One of the golden decades of 100-year-old Estonian autosport was the 80s. Estonians were such great rally drivers that several of our crews raced in the USSR team every season. The status of a member of the Soviet Union team was the highest peak, and it was every driver's dream to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages. They drove a Lada VFTS with FIA Group B homologation, which ...
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Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.
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Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn. A ring found at the scene leads Melchior to the night brotherhood, the bizarre troupe who performed on Fair Day also raises questions. Frightening signs suggest that not only the unknown recovering from the attack is in danger, but also Melchior and Keterlyn, who are treating him. At the same time, the pope's envoy, known as ...
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Melchior the Apothecary

Original title: Apteeker Melchior

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

Melchior Wakenstede is a clever and curious apothecary who, in addition to healing the sick, solves murders that shake the town. In a medieval world, where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is waiting at the door, and temptation can poison even the most noble ...
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Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost

Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant.

In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant. In the morning, the guard has fallen to death from a high tower and several more people lose their lives in suspicious accidents. Investigating these events, Melchior's paths cross with a prostitute, a priest, a foreign artist and a mad heretic. The clues take him to the Pirita Convent, which gloomy vaults hide a dangerous secret buried in oblivion. At the same time, Melchior is troubled by the question of why his beloved Keterlyn suddenly breaks ...
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Patarei partii

2022 | Other categories | Director: Liisa Rita Viitung
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