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Vertical Money

Original title: Vara küps

2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Martti Helde

Where have the Estonian forests gone?

The documentary is a nature catastrophe film that made scandalous news even before it’s release in Estonia. Shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia the film opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The film also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war. The same kind of war that's being held across the globe.
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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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Over the Line

Original title in Estonian: Üle piiri

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

The focus of the short film is on people struggling with their darker side, hiding their lies from others and themselves.

Left alone in a house near Peips due to the death of his brother, Jakop has to decide whether the refugees brought to his yard are a way to atone for his previous sins or to get money for a new engine instead.
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Smalltown Miss

Original title in Estonian: Kolhoosi miss

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alexandra Pärn

The short film is made by second year film students. It is based on a Lilli Luuk's novella “Kolhoosi miss” following a story of two young girls, their friendship and growing up in a 1988 Soviet smalltown in Estonia.

Miina has grown up in a safe home environment. That can’t be said about her best friend, Liidia. Besides having a beautiful friendship and doing normal teenage things in the Soviet smalltown, there is some darkness to be faced. Everything begins to change when Liidia becomes influenced with a new arrival to town, a woman portraying what she aspires to be. A new, better and more confident version of herself, so that she could find a way out of her unsafe environment.
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The Red Fairy Tale

Original title in Latvian: SARKANĀ PASAKA

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Frederiks Sebastians

A story about the time of the Soviet occupation.

A woman who lives under communist occupation in her country falls under suspicion of collaborating with a collaborator. She gets interrogated, compromising evidence is found on her. But they later let her go, allowing her to keep her old letters.
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Sewing Machines

Original title in Estonian: Õmblusmasinad

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Alesja Suzdaltseva

A short film by Alesja Suzdaltseva tells a story about relationships, a spiritual awakening and one pretty hot summer day in Soviet Estonia.

It's a sunny Sunday morning in the province of Soviet Estonia. Tirr, a dreamy married man, is supposed to bring some milk from the grocery store. Suddenly, a beautiful young woman appears out of the blue, asking Tirr's help to carry her heavy parcels home. On this journey Tirr discovers that life could be something more than just daydreaming on the couch.
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Guilt

Original title in Estonian: Süütunne

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Silver Õun

The film depicts an fictive interrogation scene in Estonia during the 1940s.

World War 2 – Estonia. The Soviet secret police interrogates a young man.
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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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A Car Called Victory

Original title (in Russian): "Победа"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Vladislav Mukovnin

Media student Vladislav Mukovnin's short film based on the novel by Ilmar Taska and speaks of a little boy and his parents in the post-war Soviet era.

Late 40’s, the boy disobeys parents ́ cautions and meets a stranger on a brand new car Victory who promises to teach him driving but this promise has severe consequences.
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