Country: Estonia

Language Rebel. Mati Hint

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2022

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The film summarizes the life and creative path of Mati Hind, an outstanding linguist, essayist, lecturer and who played an important role in the politics during the restoration of Estonias independence, highlighting his uncompromising nature and rebel spirit, and also explores what role the fertile landscapes and harsh history of Southern Estonia played in his personality. In the turbulent nineties, it was extremely important that the Estonian language became the state language. For this, a language law had to be adopted. Mati Hint was the ideologue of the language law, and thanks to his courage, attempts to change it at the last moment failed. Here, his rebelliousness benefited the Estonian state. Mati Hint died on December 5, 2019. In the film, his university colleagues, students, linguists and relatives talk about Mati Hindi. His lifes work and personality open up from new aspects. Mati himself is also still present in his slightly chattering, but firm and caring way.

Songs for a Fox

6.2

2021

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Dainius, a young rock singer, locks himself away in a secluded country house surrounded by swamps. Hoping to meet his beloved in dreamland, the musician is eagerly assisted in his studies by a local boy exploited by moonshiners.

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

5.9

2023

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In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

Free Range

6.1

2013

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The story of a promising, young man with exciting career opportunities and looming marital bliss.

Dear Mister Moon

6.2

1998

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When two stepsisters - 13-year-old Sigrid and 7-year-old Saara - meet each other for the first time, it will turn out that their grandmother has been taken to a retirement home. The girls make up their minds to steal grandma from the home and hide her in an attic-room where they could be all together. Everything goes unexpectedly well until drunkards, hoodlums and blackmailers interfere and the girls have to know exactly what they are doing in order to escape the gang.

Names in Marble

7

2002

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This movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).

The Ancient Woods

7.8

2017

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Filmed in one of the last remaining patches of old growth forest in Lithuania, The Ancient Woods is a place where the boundaries of time melt and everything that exists does not wither or age but \\grows into\\ eternity. A poetic and atypical nature film takes its viewers on the endless journey - from the forest thickets to the wolves caves and up to black storks nest, and then deep into the water to the underwater forest, returning after to the human beings inhabiting the edge of the woodland. Theres no commentary, only the rich, almost palpable sounds of the forest and the magical situations captured by the camera.

Zero Point

7.4

2014

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After being denounced as an outcast in school and frightened away from home by his mothers developing schizophrenia, there is no other way out for Johannes but to start improving his life by reforming himself.

Class Reunion

6.1

2016

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Three middle aged men are going to their high school reunion after 25 years and the troubles that come with it.

Truth and Justice

8.1

2019

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Andres settles in a new farm. With rose-tinted lenses, he sets out to transform the farm into a prosperous paradise - all he needs is a healthy harvest, cooperative neighbors and a son. But, life turns out to be cruel and treacherous.

The Temptation of St. Tony

7.1

2009

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A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being \\good\\ finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.

Woman Heating the Sauna

6.7

1979

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A woman in a factory must heat up the companys sauna, because the bosses want to entertain foreign visitors. The sauna is situated in her ex-husbands village, where her old aunt still lives. In addition to having to face her bosses and guests, she also faces the biggest challenge of her life.