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  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

  • Raudvara. Anu Raud
    Raudvara. Anu Raud

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Erle Veber

  • Mephistopheles
    Mephistopheles

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

    I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. From time to time, Mephistopheles reveals himself to the people through Linnar Priimägi. The energy released creates chaos.

  • Celebration
    Celebration

    Original title: Prazdnik

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

    For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

  • Shards Of Light
    Shards Of Light

    Original title: Jagatud valgus

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

    Stained glass artist fights for her existence and for new orders. Looking back to her long life, she investigates her current situation and motives of her creativeness.

  • Colours of the Islands
    Colours of the Islands

    Original title: Saarte värvid

    2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madli Lääne

  • The Idiot
    The Idiot

    Original title: Idioot

    2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

    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.

  • Inside World of the Artist
    Inside World of the Artist

    Original title of the film "Pildi sisse minek"

    2002 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

  • Colourful Dreams
    Colourful Dreams

    Original title: Värvilised unenäod

    1974 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Virve Aruoja, Jaan Tooming

    The poetic film directed by Virve Aruoja and Jaan Tooming depicts the fantasies and the world of play of a little girl and the beauty of nature.

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin

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