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The Last Relic

2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A spirited 20-year-old Left Block activist tries to find common ground among Russia’s political activists and opposition groups, hoping to bring positive changes to society. Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of open-minded people desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Time Quartet: In The Storm of Roses

Original title: Ajakvartett: Rooside rajus

2022 | Experimental, Other categories | Director:

The nurse looks after the roses; the grandchild teaches Granny TikTok; ancient Romans walk around in the garden to the sounds of a saxophone. Countries, roads and people branch out in branching times.

The short film is an attempt to visually reflect our time through a specific person, a retired nurse Helgi Kuusik. We see her in her Haanjamaa farm and in her rose garden, which she established years ago while working in Helsinki hospitals and commuting between Estonia and Finland. The brief scenes in an idyllic rural location, staged in the manner of Victorian era paintings, are linked with more realistic shots about Helgi's trip to East-Helsinki to visit her daughter's family.
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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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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
War over the Flying Squirrel

Original title: Lendoravasõda

2018 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Heli Tetlov

People find themselves in a deadlock over a tiny animal on the verge of extinction.

With their plans to expand the protected zone of the Siberian flying squirrel, a species on the verge of extinction, nature conservationists have upset the landowners of the protected areas. The owners are deprived of the opportunity to earn income from their forestland, without being offered adequate compensation. A couple of dozen families in Viru County must assume the nature conservation responsibility of “the whole of Estonia”. They are clearly not interested in being bestowed all that honour and decide to take on the battle of defending their rights. The ensuing passion is difficult to keep under control. The film ...
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14 Cases

Original title: 14 käänet

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities.

The film is based on several parallel personal stories of Russian families. During almost four years, the filmmakers observed Ksenija and Emilia who went to an Estonian kindergarten at the age of 5; 7th-grade pupil Mark who preferred Estonian school; and high-school student Vitali who went to study to St. Petersburg from Estonia. The film attempts to understand the problems that the children and their parents whose native language is Russian are dealing with - fears and hesitations, hopes and frustation, successes and failures, integration and isolation, language and identity. Regardless of being afraid of losing their identity, the protagonists ...
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The Perpetuum Mobile And Infinite Souls

Original title: Perpetuum mobile ja piiritud hinged

2017 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kaido Veermäe, Marianne Kõrver

Two men’s journeys take them through the ups and downs of life. One of them has changed into a woman and the other into a monk. Will they find the magnetic forces they need to turn on the perpetuum mobile that will help them find someone to share their lives with and somewhere to belong?

Anni’s biggest dream is to build a perpetual motion machine – the perpetuum mobile. The machine is impossible to build because it violates the most basic laws of physics. But Anni isn’t discouraged because she also violates the most basic laws of life. Her boundless energy has pulled her out of hell, changed her from a man into a woman and given her a new mission: to give us back what the universe offers – free energy. Her friend and spiritual father, secular monk Harri’s biggest dream is to create harmony between people’s bodies, spirits and their true selves; to free ...
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The Plague

Original title: Katk

2017 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Andres Keil

There are about ten thousand drug addicts who inject in Estonia. At some point, that could come closer to home than we think. This is an addiction epidemic. This is our century’s plague. We can notice. And we can care.

Estonia is currently at the forefront in Europe when it comes to drug-related deaths. And to the spread of HIV. There’s a Skype development center in Tallinn. Our Olympic team is made up of successful, healthy, athletic, beautiful and clean Estonian people. We have a lot to be proud of and a lot of pretty and happy stories to tell. But we also have needle exchange programs. It’s easy to exchange your needles but just try to exchange your whole life! Life changers are those who are dedicated to helping drug addicts. They exchange their used syringes for new ones. ...
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Zoopark

2017 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

The discomfort that people feel when looking monkeys in a cage is a warning sign.

Visiting the zoo is a feast day. The zoo is a place where the lion and the hare live happily side by side and the children train makes daring circles. Many don’t know that the zoo is open 365 days a year and just like the animals, does not rest the people who take care of them. Film opens the hidden side of legendary Tallinn Zoo and speaks of the animals and humanity.
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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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