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A boy ponders his place in the universe in this thoughtful story about the things that keep us up at night.
Two languages and two city districts meet on the basketball court: Russian girls from Lasnamäe and Estonian girls from the city center will team up in 2023 to train and play together in the Estonian championships.
Having been rejected by the woman of his dreams, Midnight Student turns to a miracle doctor.
The minstrel Tarmo Urb, who behaved like a rock star, came into direct conflict with the Soviet system, because the regime did not allow him to conquer the world's stages, but at the same time did not let him go. The collision of the two "greats" lasted for almost ten years.
A lone hiker gets lost in a forest.
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.
A political story of Belarusian women under the lead of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fighting the dictatorship turns into a personal story of the director overcoming her own fear.
The punk band Velikije Luki stands up to Soviet power and defies hardships, until, with fortunate accidents and drunken bravado, it triggers the collapse of the Red Empire.
A documentary about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge.
The focus of the short film is on traumatic experiences which separate people but can also unite them.
Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ going on the road to find out why the construction of the EU funded and NATO backed 870 kilometers long high-speed railway line connecting the Baltic States to Europe is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and at risk of stalling.
As a student, the protagonist watches Emir Kusturica’s film “Black cat, white cat”, about the wacky life of the Balkans, and suddenly realizes that he has already seen all this in his childhood in Võrumaa. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
About being human and remaining human even in the most hopeless moment. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
An Estonian cosmonaut comes from the future to save the world from global warming. But can it be real, or is it just a scam?
Documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in the last year and a half of his term in office - as he grapples with the complexities of world politics and his private life.
Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.
Sometimes you need to be reborn to understand that death is not the end of life. A film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.
A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.
When this documentary reached the editing table, the British newspaper The Guardian, which reaches thirty million readers, featured an article by renowned chess writer Leonard Barden, “Pride of Estonia: Paul Keres, one of the best to never hold chess world crown”.
The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.
It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.
In the village of Virago, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tõnu is about to turn forty.
Story of a cat, looking for a place to call home.
Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. It is the story of an encounter, a story of a space at the beginning of the end.
A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.
Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.
Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.
History documentary observes attempts of the Baltic states to gain independence and the reaction of Western countries in 1989-1991.
Filmmaker Manfred Vainokivi portrays physics teacher Mart Kuurme teaches physics and astronomy to children in Africa.
Portrait documentary directed by Heini Drui about Raivo Hein, a successful internet businessman, astrophotographer, adventurer and traveler.
One of the inhabitants of the flat earth gains possession of glasses that enable one to see in three dimensions. He has good intentions but controlling one extra dimension proves to be rather complicated.
Grey world makes people sombre. World full of colours makes people irritated. What is a poor Painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd?
The owner of a small dairy farm holds old-fashion cow keeping in esteem and goes to sell milk himself.
The Maggot Feeder is an ancient Chukchi folk tale.
Film consisting of ten parts about the events in the history of Estonian aviation and shipping in 1820–1938.
Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.
Stand-up comedian Andrus Valvur, an Estonian expatriate born in New York, comes to visit his fatherland in order to meet his relatives and hold a performance in Estonian for local audience for the first time.
Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space.
The first collective film in the world, made by the contribution of thousands of Estonian people, is the road movie where the characters with enormous speed travel around Estonia, meet silly people and find love.
The feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet is based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The filmmaker interprets the well-known classic in a contemporary film language with talented Estonian actors and actresses who perform in the enchanting yet intimidating beauty of a sacral space.
Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.
Georg Vinogradov has an important mission: to bring the Romanians to Christianity and improve the reputation of the nation for Estonians.
Documentary by Peeter Brambat about architect Toomas Rein.