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  • Nanuli and Gogi
    Nanuli and Gogi

    2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Agladze

    The film tells a story of a couple who spend their last years in abandoned village of Georgia.

  • Nowness
    Nowness

    Original title (in Estonian): "Olevik"

    2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

    ,,Nowness’’ tells the reminiscent story of a grandfather and understanding grief and death.

  • The Woman Is to Blame
    The Woman Is to Blame

    Original title in Estonian: "Naine on süüdi"

    2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Sandra Kartau

  • Amalimbo
    Amalimbo

    2016 | Animation, Cartoon, Other types of animation | Director: Juan Pablo Libossart

    Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo as she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ after the recent death of her beloved father.

  • Life Before Life
    Life Before Life

    Original title: Elu enne elu

    2016 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

    Truth is a relative concept. Depending on the point of view, everybody can be right.

  • Mausoleum
    Mausoleum

    Original title: Mausoleum

    2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

    Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

  • Fast Eddy's Old News
    Fast Eddy's Old News

    Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?

  • Homecoming
    Homecoming

    2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akio Yuguchi

    "Homecoming" portrays various topics in life, such as the life and death, fatalism and father and son.

  • Paradise
    Paradise

    Original title (in Estonian): "Paradiis"

    2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Nora Särak

  • The Arbiter
    The Arbiter

    Original title: The Arbiter

    2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

    The thriller directed by Kadri Kõusaar is based on true events, telling about a genetic scientist who decides to make the world a better place.

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