Jaanika Arum

Jaanika Arum

Born: April 21, 1987
in Pärnu, Estonia
Jaanika Arum (born on April 21, 1987 in Pärnu) is an Estonian actress. She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater and the Department of Dramatic Art at Bretford College of Theater and Performance in London. Her works include: The Polar Boy, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, Firebird and The Sleeping Beast

Movies for Jaanika Arum...

Silmitsi
Title: Silmitsi
Character: Mia
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: Movie
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The Limits of Consent
Title: The Limits of Consent
Character: Liis
Released: November 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Anna, a high-tech pick-up artist who helps awkward men to seduce lonely women in high-class bars on cold evenings in Tallinn. She can play the game of sex and love like a professional, she knows just what to say to manipulate anyone into doing what she wants (or consenting to what she wants). But Anna's own love life is far from perfect and she cannot see that she is being manipulated, too.
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Crossing The Line
Title: Crossing The Line
Character: Mother
Released: November 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Jakop, a lone fisherman on the coast of lake Peipus has to decide whether refugees brought to his door are his way of redeeming past sins or merely a means to quickly earn much needed cash.
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The Sleeping Beast
Title: The Sleeping Beast
Character: Piret
Released: April 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A gang of five children spend their summer in an abandoned factory complex. When they are forbidden to go there by the factory owner for safety reasons, the children decide to ignore the ban. This decision changes their lives forever and the friends face a grim confrontation.
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Firebird
Title: Firebird
Character: Bohimian Classmate Girl
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: Movie
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
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Grandma, Meet Mary!
Title: Grandma, Meet Mary!
Character: Mari
Released: October 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Middle-aged perfectionist Virve has made sure that her mother's 80th anniversary party goes exactly as planned, but suddenly her niece Silvia appears at the party with a surprise guest.
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Look What You Made Me Do
Title: Look What You Made Me Do
Released: November 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Ingmar is a narcissist with relationship issues and repeatedly manipulates and emotionally abuses his partners creating a cyclical panern of behavior.
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Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
Title: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
Character: Alfons Rebane's Wife
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them. A cornucopia of stylistic influences, virtuosic cinematic techniques, and set design (ranging from stop-motion animation to stylized live-action), Llanso’s latest blends inter-dimensional intrigue, spy-fi, kung-fu, and Philip K. Dick-esque mind-melting weirdness to achieve truly unclassifiable results.
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Between Covers
Title: Between Covers
Released: November 27, 2018
Type: Movie
In the snowy and secluded Estonian forest, Marti lives his life through routine. Haunted by his past bad judgement, he has become distant and lifeless. Kalev, an old local shopkeeper and a friend to Marti, tries convincing Marti to let go of the past and move on. Due to an unexpected event and Kalev's persuasiveness Marti finds himself on the verge of a new beginning. After his routine trip to the shop, Marti finds a young woman Irene at his doorstep. Marti, although hesitant, invites her inside for a tea. It doesn't take Marti long to realize Irene is not who she says she is. Torn between the past and present, Marti finds himself in a cul-de-sac. Meanwhile, Kalev is alarmed by two men parked outside his shop and is certain of their bad intentions. Marti knowing of the sinister plot in motion, has to finally come to terms with himself or suffer the consequences.
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The Polar Boy
Title: The Polar Boy
Character: Hanna
Released: May 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.
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The Days That Confused
Title: The Days That Confused
Character: Nele
Released: April 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A young man tries to make sense of the world in the summer heat of late nineties Estonia.
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Family Lies
Title: Family Lies
Character: Evelin
Released: March 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. "Family Lies" by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.
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Free Range
Title: Free Range
Character: Susanna
Released: September 19, 2013
Type: Movie
After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie, Fred, an aspiring writer, learns that his girlfriend is pregnant.
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All Musicians Are Bastards
Title: All Musicians Are Bastards
Character: Girl with a Medicine Bag
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
In her fondest dreams, this film’s main character Leila (Riina Maidre) is a resplendent singer. In reality, however, all her energy and talent is spent on relationships that eat away at her soul, mind-altering substances, and glamorous showing-off. Heleri defies the rules. By playing with the possibilities of the art of film, she takes the viewer to an uneasy universe where the boundary between reality and illusion is incredibly thin. This is a world that is familiar to everyone who at some point in their life had to grow up and admit to themselves that dreaming is not enough on its own. And who have regardless of that chosen dreaming.
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Purge
Title: Purge
Character: Katia
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.