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  • Roots: With Mum At The Monastery
    Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

    Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

  • The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

    Original title: Põrgu Jaan

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

    "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

  • Roosenberg
    Roosenberg

    2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ingel Vaikla

    Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. It is the story of an encounter, a story of a space at the beginning of the end.

  • The Swan
    The Swan

    Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

    Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

  • Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad
    Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

  • Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis
    Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

  • Three Jewels
    Three Jewels

    Original title in Estonian: Kolm juveeli

    2016 | Documentary, Anthropological, Students film, TV Show | Director: Gerli Nõmm

    Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.

  • Soolo
    Soolo

    1979 | Students film, Short | Director: Raul Tammet

  • A tiny piece of homeland
    A tiny piece of homeland

    Original title: Killuke kodumaad

    1963 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

    Heartfelt documentary about the island of Vaindloo and its six residents.

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