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  • The Academy of Elegant Aging
    The Academy of Elegant Aging

    Original title: Väärika vananemise akadeemia

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Sigrid Salutee

    It is a fun insight into the life of a day center for elderly.

  • Teofrastus
    Teofrastus

    2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Sergei Kibus

    Story of a cat, looking for a place to call home.

  • Roots: With Mum At The Monastery
    Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

    Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

  • Snowbirds
    Snowbirds

    Original title: Kliimapagulased

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

    Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

  • Life Before Life
    Life Before Life

    Original title: Elu enne elu

    2016 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

    Truth is a relative concept. Depending on the point of view, everybody can be right.

  • Color
    Color

    Original title (in Estonian): "Värv"

    2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karl Jakob Jürna

  • Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1
    Kosmos 68 - Legends vol 1

    Original title: Kosmos 68 - Legendid vol 1

    2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

    Documentary about Estonian rock music as a birth-story of a fresh thought in the contradictional Soviet cultural space.

  • Singing Nadezhda
    Singing Nadezhda

    Original title: Laulev Nadežda

    2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

    Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.

  • Butterflies
    Butterflies

    Original title in Estonian: Minu Laialdased Teadmised Liblikapüüdmisest

    2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

  • Life is a Flower
    Life is a Flower

    Original title: Elu on lill

    2010 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

    Two grand old masters, artists Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, are recording the beauty of a naked woman.

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