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Virago

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kerli Kirch Schneider

In the village of Virago, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.

A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. This is the life and the death of the men in Virago — a village where for centuries no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday. Until today.
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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Thousand Villages

Original title in Estonian: "Tuhat küla"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Oksmann

Post apocalyptic story about the small towns and villages of Estonia.

“Thousand Villages” is a post-apocalyptic documentary film, that shows the life of a young man who escaped from the capital city and moved to small village to find his inner balance. It captures the phenomenon of shrinking of the small towns and villages.
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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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Potato Republic

Original title: Kartuli Wabariik

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kätlin Kaganovitš

Documentary about Tarmo Ladva, president of Potato Republic to be established in Laanemetsa village in Valga county, Estonia, and about the process of putting his expansive ideas into practice.

Artist and event organizer Tarmo Ladva wants to achieve his goal to establish Potato Republic in Laanemetsa village, Taheva parish that is located in a peripheral region of Estonia. Potato Republic would serve as a museum to introduce potato as the symbol of Estonian food and to remember history. His high-flown ideas about creating a bath cinema and heritage theatre, however, get stuck due to financial difficulties and general scepticism. The man full of enthusiasm won't give up and gives it another try.
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The Border of Human

Original title: Inemiste piir

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aivo Spitsonok, Vahur Laiapea

How people live in the intersection of the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Russia?

There is one point where the borders of the Republic of Estonia, Republic of Latvia and Russian Federation meet. This is where the filmmakers start their journey. The residents of the villages by the state border get along well, on both sides of the border people have only kind words for their neighbours. Estonians, Latvians, Russians talk about their lives: Estonians living in Estonia, those living in Latvia, those living in the intersection of the state borders, Russians who can speak both Latvian and Estonian, residents of Mehka area, Estonians living in Korneti village in Latvia and Estonians living in ...
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Eight Days a Week

Original title: Kaheksa päeva nädalas

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ago Ruus

Tiit Niilo, the owner of Nopri farm in Võru county, has decided to continue farmkeeping in the lands of his forefathers despite all hardships. He works away for his dairy farm eight days a week.

Tiit Niilo comes from an old-established Southern Estonian family and builds his own dairy farm, he also tries to save the local school and hopes to bring the problematic issues of his home village to the Parliament. Tiit has five children - the strong family farm looks promising. So he works his fingers to the bone in order to keep his farm alive, to preserve rural life and to satisfy his ancestors. Both positive and negative aspects of living in the countryside are discussed in the documentary.
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Wolf

Original title: Hunt

2003 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Priit Valkna

Residents of Luutsniku village in Haanja county, Estonia, still believe in werewolves as their superstition is fed by legends, envy and gossips.

Heino Hunt lives in Luutsniku village, Haanja county, Estonia. He lives alone in the middle of a thick forest, in the heart of ancient Livonia, the homeland of werewolves. Residents of Luutsniku village still believe in werewolves - strangers are warned against collaboration with Heino since the latter is a strange man. He is associated with several mysterious criminal cases. Some people feel hostile towards Heino, some are afraid of him, for some people, Heino is just a neigbour. One thing is for sure for the residents of Luutsniku - Heino is probably transforming himself into a wolf. Heino ...
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Soomahl

1982 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel