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A Greyhound of a Girl

Original title (in German): Alles Gëtt Wonnerbar!

2023 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Enzo d'Alo
Mo Mamma

2023 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Eeva Mägi

„Mamma, see how I dance! Mother, see me slitting my throat!“ This is a drama full of feminine absurd, where mother and daughter drown in a passionate and endless desire to understand each other.

Mother (Karin) and daughter (Mari) are facing the demise of Mamma, Karin's mother and Mari's grandmother. They both release their pain on each other, but in unconditional love, everything is allowed. On the backdrop of mother and daughter seeking closeness and mutual understanding, there are bits of archive footage of Mamma, showing her peaceful healthy everyday life. The film is a bittersweet homage to Mamma, full of feminine absurd.
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Eeva

2022 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

A sad day in Eva’s life...

It’s pouring down with rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
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Silent Land

2022 | Short, Students film | Director: Martin Riispere

A bittersweet science fiction drama about coming to terms with loss and grief.

The plot of Silent Land is a tragedy. The son is in great pain and obsessed with pushing these trauma derived negative emotions of his mother’s suicide away. He succeeds but with dire consequences to his mind and that propels him to his undoing. The core is loss and grief. The son is unable to deal with the loss of his mother and thus obsessively resorts to extreme methods in an attempt to push away his negative emotions instead of dealing with them.
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The Unfamiliars

Original title in Estonian: Võõrad

2022 | Short, Students film | Director: Lauri Elstelä

Movie about grief and moving on.

A human drama about a mother obsessed with documenting her dead son's apartment, a sister forced to inherit her dead brother's old belongings, and a son-in-law pretending to ignore a past affair with his dead lover. Together, they navigate familial tensions and secrets held from each other inside a house that is home to nobody.
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Aurora’s song

Original title in Estonian: Aurora Laul

2021 | Short, Students film | Director: Stella Carneiro

While mourning the loss of her partner, Margit reconnects with her mother-in-law Juula through their shared grief.

A young woman, Margit (30), receives an unexpected visit from her late mother-in-law, Juula (50) after a tragic accident. Juula brings sleeping pills to help Margit with her grief. The gift does not help Margit with her feelings of loss, but instead, causes her dreams to become more lively, resulting in hallucinations of her dead girlfriend, Aurora (25). When Juula visits Margit once more, the two women settle their differences and find comfort in each other.
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Wednesday

2021 | Short, Feature film | Director: Eeva Mägi

Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity. An everyday life full of bitter sweet love falls with the setting sun into the depths of the sea.

Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity. An everyday life full of bitter sweet love falls with the setting sun into the depths of the sea.
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Marta

2018 | Short, Students film | Director: German Golub

The film talks about the mourning and its subsequent period, which can greatly affect the psyche of the young person.

Marta is a young girl who has lost her mother and is forced to move to her father's new family. The apartment where she lives is the last point with her mother and she is afraid of losing it.
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Homebound

Original title (in Estonian): "Kodutee"

2017 | Short, Students film | Director: Tõnis Pill

New movie “Kodutee” by Tõnis Pill tells a story of grief and dealing with it.

An older lady drives on snowy roads in a sidecar motorcycle with her dead husband, to get the perfect picture with a lighthouse and her husband.
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Honeymoon

Original title (in Estonian): "Mesinädalad"

2017 | Short, Students film | Director: Enrico Barone

There is no real love without redemption, forgiveness and compassion.

Helen´s husband, Toomas, is in coma after stroke. Detached from life and work, the woman must cope with the discovery of her husband´ s adultery with a Latvian woman, Laima. Helen struggles between grief and anger and the process of mourning develops through questioning her won feelings towards the husband, towards the the acceptance of the existence of Laima. Helen can come back to love and music only through redemption and forgiveness.
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