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  • Nightingale
    Nightingale

    Original title: Ööbik

    2023 | Short, Feature film | Director: Leeni Linna

    Russian guard Aleksei risks his life, to save an Estonian girl who the KGB is planning to capture for singing outside the prison where he works.

  • The Last Relic
    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.

  • Vyazhet Yazik
    Vyazhet Yazik

    2023 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Ilja Vassin

    This documentary follows the journey of a dedicated teacher who stands up for the rights of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia.

  • Betti Alver
    Betti Alver

    2020 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Enn (Ernst) Lillemets

    Documentary film sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities - Betti Alver.

  • Love express
    Love express

    Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

    2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kuba Mikurda

    A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

  • The Little Comrade
    The Little Comrade

    Original title: Seltsimees laps

    2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Moonika Siimets

    Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

  • Mausoleum
    Mausoleum

    Original title: Mausoleum

    2016 | Short, Feature film | Director: Lauri Randla

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

  • Undeground
    Undeground

    Original title: Põranda all

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

    UNDERGROUND is based on the well known political process held in Estonia almost forty years ago, and portrays several renowned dissidents, as well as those who did not remain in the spotlight due to certain historical circumstances.

  • 2084: Memory spasms
    2084: Memory spasms

    Original title (in Estonian): "2084: Mälukrambid"

    2013 | Short, Students film | Director: Anna Hints, Doris Tääker, Eva Kübar, Greta Varts, Heinrich Sepp, Margus Raid, Reino Aedmäe, Sandra Zaneva

  • Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1
    Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1

    Original title: Kosmos 68 - Legendid vol 1

    2011 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

    Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space.

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