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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Tales Of A Toy Horse

Original title in Ukrainian: Казка про Коника

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi, Rodion Shub

Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.

An intimate and poetic cinema verite with animated interludes reveals the philosophy of life of an old monk and artist, who for many years keeps his monastic vow to find something good in every day. Combining spiritual life with social activism since 2014, he takes multiple trips to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbas, where his vow is challenged by the war-torn reality.
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The Tour of Dreams

Original title: Unistus Ameerika tuurist

2021 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema, Taavi Arus

When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.

This documentary is a film about bluegrass, gospel and god, in one of the most secular countries in the world. "Robirohi" is not a very well known band in Estonia. Most of their concerts are held in churches and congregations, their soulful music gets little plays on non-christian radio stations. Nearly all band members have felt enlightenment: "It is as if a warm wave of light passes through all your body". All members but one. The band would love to be famous one day – but is gospel the right path to take? They book their dream tour to America, ...
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

2019 | Experimental, Documentary, Portrait, Other categories | Director: Sten Haljak

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country. He inexplicably morphs into a psychedelic cowboy during a hypnosis session and begins another journey in his subconscious. A humorous attempt on finding a path in a documentary that also addresses viewers spiritual and transcendental reality, and renders out a surreal metaphor from behind and beyond the image. Involving two separate, but intersecting stories, while mixing experimental documentary and fiction.
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Lotte and the Lost Dragons

Original title: Lotte ja kadunud lohe

2019 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

We all come from our childhood.

In this third film of the series of Lotte films that children know and love, the spirited girl dog Lotte gets a little sister named Roosi. Karl the raccoon and Viktor the fish are scientists who come to Gadgetville. They are taking part in a big folk song collecting competition. Whoever succeeds in recording the folk song of the world’s oldest animal species, the mythical fire-breathing dragon, wins the competition’s grand prize. Lotte and Roosi decide to help the scientists. Exciting and unexpected adventures await the sisters.
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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

2018 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt ...
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Fire Lily

Original title: Tuliliilia

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maria Avdjuško

Life finds a way.

The mystical drama thriller tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength.
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Toys and Totems

Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible.  Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

Some objects in our lives are more significant than others, be they ritual artifacts or childhood toys. Their life-stories intertwine with our own. Reflecting to and from their significant objects, children create reality, and so can grown-ups. The film, with its documentary stories, stop-motion animation and associative imagery, pays tribute to the humans’ bittersweet yearning for re-connection and transformation. Ritual objects and children’s toys can be equally infused with the power to change our perceived reality. Playing is a cosmological act that can make anything possible.
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