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  • 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.

  • Meeskond
    Meeskond

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Hindrek Maasik

  • Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad
    Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

  • Patarei ärkab ellu
    Patarei ärkab ellu

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg

  • Reading between the lines
    Reading between the lines

    Original title (in Estonian): "Ridade vahelt lugedes"

    2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Nadja Girich

    Adaptation of original letters by Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and estonian poetess Maria Karamzina.

  • Sacrifice
    Sacrifice

    Original title (in Estonian): "Ohverdus"

    2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Oksana Nakorchevska

    A fairytal about father and daughter, who moved to the countryside.

  • Tiit Pääsuke ja tembitud värvid
    Tiit Pääsuke ja tembitud värvid

    2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Urbla

  • When You Least Expect It
    When You Least Expect It

    Original title: Õnn tuleb magades

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

    There are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who the other is. Viivi would like to run away and the man is sleeping like a log. Unlike Viivi and Andu themselves, the viewers know both very well. They know that Viivi has the worst day in her life and that Andu is a dweeb, but not completely hopeless; a rather good-hearted man.

  • Woman and the Glacier
    Woman and the Glacier

    Original title in Lithuanian: Moteris ir ledinas

    2016 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Audrius Stonys

    A story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier.

  • An Old Man and an Old Woman. An Erzya Story
    An Old Man and an Old Woman. An Erzya Story

    Original title: Taat ja memm

    2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    An old man and an old woman got into a tiff. The old man went fishing and did not want to go home. In response to the old woman’s prayers, the god Nishkepaz rotted the old man’s nets. He returned home, but the wife lamented, „We have nothing to eat!“ The old man replied, „We’ve got fish in the barn, let’s sell it and buy bread, salt and mead!“

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