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The Sleeping Beast

Original title: Tagurpidi torn

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

A gang of five children – two boys and three girls – spends their summer in an abandoned factory complex. The gang leader, Kristjan (10), would really rather hang out with his older brother’s friends but still enjoys the games and tests of courage with his peers. One day, factory owner Teet bans them from going to the complex for safety reasons. Kristjan, Ariel, Laura, Mia-Margot and Siim decide to ignore the ban and return to the complex secretly. One day Elmar catches the wandering Lisandra, Loore's 3-year-old sister, and locks her in his guard booth for her own safety. ...
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Burning porcelain

Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

A young woman in a wheelchair, Eleonor, returns to her childhood home. The objects in her room remind her of the time before the accident. She tries to get her old self back but is forced to face the truth - the scars and the wheelchair are a part of her new self.
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Till We Meet Again

Original title: Taaskohtumine

2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

This is a story about an elderly woman whose destiny has taken her far away from her home island. She is finally able to return, only to find out that strangers have been living in her house. Animation short talks about the tragic history of a small Ruhnu Island. Fearing for their lives, its entire population abandoned their homes while escaping the war in 1944. Decades later they had a chance to finally return, only to find out that the strangers had settled in. In addition to the twists and turns of the history, the film looks deeper into the meaning ...
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Raggie

Original title: Sipsik

2020 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Karsten Kiilerich

Raggie is a story of a very special doll, of a sister and brother, and of friendship that can conquer the greatest of tribulations.

Ruby is turning six and her life is in balance – she has an older brother Mark, who is her best friend and always has time to play with her. Then summer is over and Mark has to go back to school. He won´t have time for her sister anymore. Ruby is devastated. Mark decides to make Ruby a new companion: a doll - Raggie. In a wonderful magical moment, Raggie comes to life, at least in Ruby´s perception. Now she has eyes for her new friend only and Ruby spends all her days with Raggie. This changes the relationship ...
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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Toys and Totems

Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible.  Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

Some objects in our lives are more significant than others, be they ritual artifacts or childhood toys. Their life-stories intertwine with our own. Reflecting to and from their significant objects, children create reality, and so can grown-ups. The film, with its documentary stories, stop-motion animation and associative imagery, pays tribute to the humans’ bittersweet yearning for re-connection and transformation. Ritual objects and children’s toys can be equally infused with the power to change our perceived reality. Playing is a cosmological act that can make anything possible.
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1944

Original title: 1944

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, often referred to as the Battle of the European SS. WWII.1944. The bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Men brought out of Siberian labour camps and now returning home. Today 70 years on, the makers of Estonia's biggest ever box-office success ...
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Living Images

Original title: Elavad pildid

2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hardi Volmer

The historical drama directed by Hardi Volmer is a love story combining the elements of epopee and comedy, the grotesque of early silent film and the melodrama of the golden era of cinema.

Helmi, the daughter of a Baltic German baron, is imbued with life. She grows up in an old town house in Tallinn being neighbours with Julius, cinema technician, who has lifelong feelings for Helmi. Their lives and destinies meet in the old house throughout the 20 century - the house that keeps changing together with various times, both restless and happy.
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Heritage Songs from Kihnu Island

Original title: Laulud mere tagant

2003 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Veiko Taluste

Documentary about folk singer Virve Järsumägi, also known as Virve of Kihnu, and about the passing of folklore heritage from one generation to another.

Virve Elfriide Köster alias Virve Järsumägi lives in a small island of Kihnu. She has a gift to create songs that reflect life surrounding her. Just like the island is surrounded by the sea, Virve's songs also talk about the sea. Virve sings the sea to the heart of the audience. Virve is an elderly woman who has been through thick and thin; now she leaves her songs to a young woman who inherits Virve's creative work and teaches her songs to small children. Songs will always remain, even if people disappear.
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