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  • That’s How It Is
    That’s How It Is

    Original title: Nii ta on

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

    The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

  • Payday
    Payday

    Original title: Pensipäev

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Liis Lepik

    Sleepy rural life in a remote borough is enlivened one day a month, when the horn of plenty overflows and everyone gets a part of it's offerings.

  • Scissors
    Scissors

    Original title: Käärid

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Margus Talvik

    Young woman meets different kinds of men in her own built van, where she serves as a barber in every part of Estonia.

  • Undergods
    Undergods

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Chino Moya

    Debut film of Chino Moya is a collection of darkly humorous, surrealist tales about ill-fated characters and their tragic misadventures.

  • Class Reunion 3: Godfathers
    Class Reunion 3: Godfathers

    Original title: Klassikokkutulek 3: Ristiisad

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

    Having unwillingly agreed to become the Godfather to his ex-wife’s newborn baby, Andres falls deep into the pool of self-pity. Luckily,he has his best friends Mart and Toomas by his side who take Andres to tantra camp to find the most beautiful woman to accompany him at the baptising.

  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

    Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

  • A Demonstration Of Brilliance In Four Acts
    A Demonstration Of Brilliance In Four Acts

    Original title: Briljantsuse demonstratsioon neljas vaatuses

    2018 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

    The people are waiting for someone special. And he arrives...

  • Bridges Of Time
    Bridges Of Time

    Original title: Ajasillad

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

    "Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

  • Pööripäev
    Pööripäev

    2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaspar Ainelo

  • Estonian village in Ghana
    Estonian village in Ghana

    Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Kalle Käesel

    Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.

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