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When her son asks her to move out of the apartment due to the unveiling of Elna’s legacy, Elna must come to terms with where she truly belongs — to the world of the living or the realm of the dead.
Documentary explores the war in Ukraine through frontline civilians and everyday Ukrainians. Filmmaker and reserve officer Ilmar Raag volunteers to deliver aid deep into Ukraine’s warzones. The people he meets are different, but they all fight for Ukraine.
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.
After her daddy’s death, Karmen commits an atrocious act against her half-brother and must now face the dark void of the universe, which can only be filled with love
A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.
At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness
A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.
A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.
This film was completed as part of a short film contest: A 1-minute film for the digital year. The competition was announced by Estonian Film Institute and the Year of Digital Culture 2020 in the circumstances of emergency situation due to the pandemic spread of the coronavirus in the world.
Who's the man waving the flag?
The end of one act is the beginning of another. The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes.
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.
In 2016 several fires destroyed several buildings on the island of Piirissaare, among the also the Old Believers prayer house. Praskovja, the 84-year- old choir singer and important member of the community, lost her childhood´s house in one the fires and she is trying to get on her feet down again and continue living.
An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.
Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.
The story of Holocaust in the city of Pärnu.
Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.
Filmmakers Meelis Muhu and Kristina Norman observe life in Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, that is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova governed by the real Soviet order.
Love story of a different angle.
The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.
The documentary co-directed by Estonian and French filmmakers portray Jaan Kaplinski - a man behind words.
Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.
The story of a lonely man.
Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.
Documentary of cultural history by Vallo Kepp about the last decade (1941-1951) in the life of Henrik Visnapuu, the Estonian writer of patriotic and romantic poetry.
Portrait documentary about Andrus Elbing alias Babyface - a poet, rap singer and hip-hop artist with a complicated background.
Chronicle film about the events in the Republic of Estonia in 2008.
Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Jaan Manitski, a well-off expatriate Estonian who returned to his fatherland and established an impressive cultural centre in his home village Viinistu.
Documentary with the elements of animation directed by Mait Laas about the founders of Eesti Nukufilm, film directors Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars.
This is the second feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet telling the story about two girls in their teens searching for identity and discovering friendship and love.
Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.
Portrait documentary directed by Rein Raamat about Evi Tihemets, an outstanding graphic artist.
Documentary about Afanassi Triškin's and his granddaughter Liina Triškina's journey to Afanassi's first home in Central Russia.
Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.
Documentary by Peeter Urbla about Aare Hõrn, owner of Mihkli Farm, and about his activities as Seto King.
Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, is the guide to take the viewers around Paris.
The documentary tries to find answers to the question why the number of suicides is so high in Estonia while investigating the stories of those who have attempted suicide.
The first part of the enlightening film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes" directed by Vallo Kepp - documentary that has been dedicated to Uku Masing's - the scholar, poet and original culture philosopher - childhood years and the period of development in his home village in Rapla county, Estonia.