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  • Who am I Smiling For?
    Who am I Smiling For?

    Original title: Kellele ma naeratan?

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

    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.

  • The Tortoise And The Hare
    The Tortoise And The Hare

    Original title: Kilpkonn ja jänes

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    The journey to infinity.

  • A Man From A Fairytale
    A Man From A Fairytale

    Original title: Mees muinasjutust

    2019 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

    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.

  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | 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.

  • My Father The Spy
    My Father The Spy

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

    The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

  • Ash Mountains
    Ash Mountains

    Original title: Tuhamäed

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Murd

    A fairy tale about the Ash Mountains.

  • Dearest Sister
    Dearest Sister

    Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

    2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Mattie Do

    A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

  • 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.

  • Dawn
    Dawn

    Original title (Latvian): Ausma

    2015 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

    Has betrayal in Soviet time become an act of heroism of modern times?

  • Emajõgi
    Emajõgi

    2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Priit Põhjala

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