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Kalev

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ove Musting

It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union`s basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team’s participation in the USSR’s championship. That would contradict the people’s aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start…
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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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War on Boring Walls

Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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Mushrooming

Original title: Seenelkäik

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

The debut feature film directed by Toomas Hussar is a horror comedy about a politician who loses his direction both when picking mushrooms in the forest as well as in the social system.

Politician Aadu Kägu and his wife Viivi go to pick mushrooms in order to take a break from reputation campaign. They will be accompanied by Zäk - a hitchhiking penniless rock star. To avoid public mushroom forests, they haphazardly go to some remote deep woods that looks wild and deserted. Soon the three of them find out that they are lost. At the same time, a media scandal explodes - investigative journalists suspect that Kägu has misused public funds. Both in the woods and in town a battle of life and death begins.
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That's IT!

Original title: Täitsa lõpp!

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Ilmar Raag, Jaak Kilmi, Mikk Rand, Rasmus Merivoo, René Vilbre

The first collective film in the world, made by the contribution of thousands of Estonian people, is the road movie where the characters with enormous speed travel around Estonia, meet silly people and find love.

It's December and Christmas time, but outside the summer sun is blazing. Something is wrong! The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Every Estonian has to decide how they will spend their last days. Rait finally wants to confess his feelings to his lifelong love, starlet Lenna Kuurmaa. His friend Mihkel, hits his head, goes bonkers, and needs to save the world by sacrificing Lenna to the God of Sun. Brenda wants to escape her dictatorial mother but the orderlies of an insane asylum are chasing after her. Ervin wins the world's last lottery ...
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

The monument of the Bronze Soldier in Tõnismägi, Tallinn denoted the symbol of occupation for half a century for Estonian people, but for the Russian-speaking local residents the monument marked the victory over fascism. In April 2007 the Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the government of the Republic of Estonia decided to move the Bronze Soldier monument from central Tallinn to the Defence Forces military cemetery due to the fact that the statue had become a source of tension. As a result, a violent chaos bursted out in Tallinn. The documentary by Kanal 2 gives an overview about the events ...
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Estonia's Choice 2001

Original title: Eesti valik 2001

2002 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

An important moment in Estonian history has been recorded for future generations - the process of presidential elections of the Republic of Estonia in 2001 and electing Arnold Rüütel as the President of Estonia.

After three rounds of voting in Riigikogu and two rounds of voting in the electoral body, Arnold Rüütel, former chairman of the Supreme Council of ESSR was elected the President of the Republic of Estonia for the next five years during the presidential elections in 2001. The filmmakers follow the process of elections, they talk to the politicians and presidential candidates and discuss the problems that our small country is facing and will face.
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Kalev

Goodbye Soviet Union

War on Boring Walls

Mushrooming

That's IT!

Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Estonia's Choice 2001