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Bad Ass Merike

Original title: Vinge mutt

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Keil

She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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That’s How It Is

Original title: Nii ta on

2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life. How does the former pig farmer Janek raise his four sons, or what does Meelis, the owner of a small town nursing home, dream about? How does forester Rein find a new spark in life in the game of darts, and farmer Eku in potato planting? Does septic tank servicer Kaido have any regrets in life, and how often does he bring flowers to his wife? Does hobby inventor Juss see God in the ...
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Weight of Light

2024 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

A teenage girl's eyes open up to the untold stories of women surrounding her, when she stumbles upon a photo camera on a vast garbage mountain in Delhi.

Surya, a teenage ragpicker, finds a camera on a huge garbage mountain in Delhi. The camera becomes her window to the untold stories of women surrounding her. The film walks the line between documentary and fiction and focuses on a community of garbage collectors who try to find their place in the world amidst garbage and scorching heat.
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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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In the Name of Science

Original title: Teaduse nimel

2023 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Documentary film about Covid19 and medical treatment related to Covid19.

This is a documentary film in the series of Estonian Stories, an Estonian story about the corona crisis. One of the main characters is Kaari Saarma, with a background in molecular biology, who believes the crisis could be solved with the help of ivermectin. The other main character is Kairi Riigor, Chief Physician of the Intensive Care Unit at the North Estonia Medical Centre, who treats critically ill coronavirus patients. The film looks at how the divide between two opposing sides has come about: on one side, there is the conventional medicine; on the other side, the so-called vaccine deniers. ...
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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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Yasmin. Clarity for a Day or Two

Original title: Yasmin. Selgus päevaks või kaheks

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anastasia Zazhitskaya, Georgius Misjura, Nikita Kurashov

Yasmyn (Sinencia Jasmine Kass) is a dreamy yet enterprising artist with Dominican and Estonian roots. She was born and raised in a country where diversity is still a novelty. Her music is experimental, courageous, and adventurous. She fights with her own perfectionism and perceptions of society. In her everyday life, Sinencia is a focused and active entrepreneur and artist, going through her early twenties and the challenges that this age usually brings - how to build a career in the music industry, earn money, and build relationships with people at work and at home. Yasmyn’s story brings up universal, age-old questions ...
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2 Hours to Happiness

Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia. The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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Between the Three

Original title: Kolmevahel

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marek Vahula

The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.

The documentary introduces the story of environmental protection of Kunda bay in 1992–1993 when two extension plans for the port of Kunda were impeded – to Letipea in the winter of 1992 and to Toolse in the winter of 1993. And as a final result, the port remained to its historical location.
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