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  • Lynx Man
    Lynx Man

    Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

    After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

  • Leonardo from Randvere
    Leonardo from Randvere

    Original title: Randvere Leonardo

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

    The life of Endel Saarepuu (70) is filled with art. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work.

  • Funeral Diaries
    Funeral Diaries

    Original title: Matusepäevikud

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

  • Zoro
    Zoro

    2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Antonio Tainha

    A lonesome man, isolated from society, returns to the city to see how people are living in the modern world.

  • Writing a Life
    Writing a Life

    Original title in Estonian: "Kirjutades elu"

    2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Reeli Reinaus

    Short documentary, directed by Reeli Reinaus, is portrait of everyday life of poet Võike Kulmus, who lives with her animals in contryside.

  • 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.

  • See You In Chechnya
    See You In Chechnya

    Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

    2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

    If you go to war, war will come home with you.

  • Space of Pure Thought
    Space of Pure Thought

    Original title: Puhta mõtte ruum

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Puu Estonia (pseudonüüm)

    Documentary about the modern humanitarian who according to himself has no choices.

  • The House Guard
    The House Guard

    Original title: Majavalvur

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ingel Vaikla

    The story of degradation of the legendary Tallinn Linnahall from the point of view of a man together with his own story of life.

  • The Wall
    The Wall

    Original title in Estonian: Sein

    2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

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