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  • Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter
    Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

    2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

  • Mo Mamma
    Mo Mamma

    2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Eeva Mägi

    „Mamma, see how I dance! Mother, see me slitting my throat!“ This is a drama full of feminine absurd, where mother and daughter drown in a passionate and endless desire to understand each other.

  • Raul Vaiksoo - Pätt või Pühak?
    Raul Vaiksoo - Pätt või Pühak?

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mattias Veermets

    Architect Raul Vaiksoo marches on the fringes of blindness and genius, twisting the rules, blessing the digital world and enjoying the hustle and bustle of life.

  • Captain Volkonogov Escaped
    Captain Volkonogov Escaped

    Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

    Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

  • Quicksand
    Quicksand

    Original title in Dutch: Drijfzand

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margot Schaap

    The story of an intriguing mother-daughter relationship and its repercussions for three generations of women.

  • A Loss of Something Ever Felt
    A Loss of Something Ever Felt

    Original title: Üht kaotust igavesti kandsin

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

    Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.

  • Eesti nafta
    Eesti nafta

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

    A Mother and daughter, searching for an answer to what could be the fuel for life in a small country Estonia. One of them grows Nettle, the other one is a famous youtuber.

  • Gentle Warriors
    Gentle Warriors

    Original title (in Lithuanan): Švelnūs kariai

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Marija Stonytė

    A girl becomes a warrior in the military- and her own life.

  • Leonhard Lapin. Process
    Leonhard Lapin. Process

    Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

    This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

  • Peaceful Night
    Peaceful Night

    Original title in Estonian: Öörahu

    2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Teresa Juksaar

    Teresa Juksaar's short film ''Peaceful Night'' is about a young girl who is starting her independent life.

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