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Lovable

Original title (in Latvian): Milulis

2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Stanislavs Tokalovs

Matiss is way too young to be suddenly left to care for his partner’s nine-year-old daughter. A responsibility like this reveals Matiss’ true nature, inner demons and a lack of relationships based on pure love.

Career, loyalty, power, wealth or love? A promising future, accidental opportunities, contrasting values and radical priorities for individualistic kids from a generation of independence and freedom. Cynical troublemaker Matiss does not stop at anything to gain personal advantages and to benefit from legal loopholes to cheat, manipulate and blackmail.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Ash Mountains

Original title: Tuhamäed

2017 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Murd

A fairy tale about the Ash Mountains.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of the Ash Mountains has dropped by more than half, with no signs of growth or relief in sight. A place once known as the El Dorado of the proletariat has become synonymous with death and decay. However, legends remain: dwarves atop semi-coke mountains, exiles digging for forgiveness in pits, Mercedes-Cowboys roaming the night, and a magical bird, who must burn up to rise again.
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The Last Exit

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liva Vilnite

Short documentary about the journey one takes before leaving Earth. Film captures last moments here - between the moment of death and funeral. Who we meet, where we go, who writes our life stories on the only physical memory we leave - the urn.

The story is about work environment and specifics of professions in The Crematorium of Riga, the only working crematorium in Latvia. The crematorium serves up to 6 cases per day offering a full service for managing the issues regarding to death. It makes work places for morgue workers, furnace operators, masters of ceremonies, coffin designers, hearse drivers and number of guards. It is a long list of professions that people do not talk about. As one of the characters said: “When my wife asks me where I am, I just have to tell her - there. She cannot even listen ...
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Self-Portrait with Mother

Original title: Autoportree emaga

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Edvard Oja

Autobiographical documentary about Edvard Oja's fight with alcoholism.

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always supported by his mother who has provided unconditional love for her son in every situation. Mother is the only one in the documentary who won't ennoble the environment suffering from alcoholism. Yet, her son has no strength to struggle out of his tough situation. Is it possible after all that he will be cured?
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August Rei's Funeral in Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm

Title in Estonian: August Rei matused Stockholmi Vasa kirikus

1963 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Politician and diplomatist August Rei's funeral held in Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm on April 20, 1963.

August Rei was a long-term deputy of the head of state of the Republic of Estonia in exile. His funeral is held in Gustaf Vasa Church, Stockholm. The funeral service is held by bishop Johannes Oskar Lauri and church minister Konrad Veem. The remains of the deceased is cremated in the Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm. Among the grievers there are Tõnis Kint, Heinrich Mark, Arvo Horm, Elmar Kandre, Birger Nerman, Enno Penno, Bernhard Mäelo, Therese Rei, Hilja Rei and others.
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August Rei's Funeral in Stockholm on April 20, 1963

Title in Estonian: August Rei matused Stockholmis 20.04.1963

1963 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Funeral of politician and diplomatist August Rei held in Gustaf Vasa Church, Stockholm on April 20, 1963.

August Rei was a long-term deputy of the President of the Republic of Estonia in exile. His funeral service is held in Gustaf Vasa Church, Stockholm. Funeral service is held by bishop Johannes Oskar Lauri and minister of church Konrad Veem. The ashes of the deceased are cremated in the crematory of Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm. Among the grievers there are Tõnis Kint, Heinrich Mark, Arvo Horm, Elmar Kandre, Birger Nerman, Enno Penno, Bernhard Mäelo, Therese Rei, Hilja Rei and others.
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Lovable

Funeral Diaries

Ash Mountains

The Last Exit

Self-Portrait with Mother

August Rei's Funeral in Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm

August Rei's Funeral in Stockholm on April 20, 1963