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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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So(u)ld

Original title in Estonian: Müüdud Hing

2022 | Short, Students film | Director: Betra Käsper

In a suburbs of Tallinn, lives a pensioner Milvi, who is in desperate need of finding a connection. Her path crosses with door to door sell-man who becomes her so called friend.

This story is about MILVI (65 yo), who is a lonely pensioner living in the suburbs of Tallinn, Estonia. She’s a hoarder and having a hard time saying no to door-to-door salesmans. One day she gets paid a visit by a young salesman of a vacuum cleaner named Paul. Despite the age difference they become friends, but as in sales business, everything isn ́t as innocent as it seems. Milvis daughter Lenna is suspecting Paul of just seeing the chance of an easy cash grab. The question is- will Milvis pink glasses shatter into pieces or will she fall for it ...
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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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A Loss of Something Ever Felt

Original title: Üht kaotust igavesti kandsin

2020 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.

Hille has a close relationship with her drug addict son. She sends him money every other week. After a fight they have over the phone, Lauri disappears mysteriously. His last known location is Bogotá, Colombia. At Hille's request, Lauri's sister, Eeva, reluctantly embarks on a journey and soon finds herself in the surreal and merciless underbelly of Bogotá. She contacts her only Colombian acquaintance, Carlos, who also lost his brother in the past, and they film their search for answers for a loss they both share.
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The Trivia of Life

Original title: Elu pisiasjad

2003 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Documentary by Dorian Supin about a man at the end of his/her days, about dignified aging, life in Paunküla nursing home; about the memories, dreams and daily life of the elderly residents.

Life in Paunküla nursing home follows its daily pattern. Yet, every routine activity is a special event for the elderly residents: waking up in the morning, having meals, taking medicines. Daily routine is brightened up by social gatherings, birthdays, and, of course, by Christmas. The elderly women, each of them being a personality, are living now in a forgotten world and their close ones are replaced by caretakers, nurses and doctors. Those who still remember tell about their childhood; those who don't are slipping away to the world unattainable for others. The happiness of the end of one's days lies ...
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Aunt Rose

Original title: Tädi Rose

1968 | TV Short, TV feature | Director: Virve Aruoja
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Light in Koordi

Original title: Valgus Koordis

1951 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Herbert Rappaport

The film directed by Herbert Rappaport is based on the story "Light in Koordi", telling about collectivization in Estonia during the era of Stalinist propaganda. Starring Georg Ots.

Paul Runge, a Red Army soldier, returns to his home village Koordi after the war. Despite the new regime people have not changed much. The village is still the same - neglected and without culture - where prosperous farmers maltreat local peasants, either with using tricks or with brutality. The hopes of new settlers are high, but the harvest will be poor. When Muuli from the Communist Party and Runge realize that small households have no power, they will start to talk about establishing a collective farm. Threatening letters and foul attacks by the followers of the old regime follow ...
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Homing Beyond

So(u)ld

Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

A Loss of Something Ever Felt

The Trivia of Life

Aunt Rose

Light in Koordi