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  • My Duty
    My Duty

    Original title: Minu kohus

    2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liis Lindmaa

    Documentary about an Estonian woman with Russian heritage, who joins the Estonian Women’s Voluntary Defense League to become a soldier.

  • The Last Relic
    The Last Relic

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

    Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • Year Of The Pig
    Year Of The Pig

    Original title: Sea aasta

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

  • Taevas, tule appi
    Taevas, tule appi

    2020 | Other categories | Director:

  • Funeral Diaries
    Funeral Diaries

    Original title: Matusepäevikud

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

  • Roots: My Flesh And Blood
    Roots: My Flesh And Blood

    Original title: Juured: Mu liha ja veri

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

    This is a story about love and loss. About my flesh and blood.

  • November
    November

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

    Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

  • Flesh and bone
    Flesh and bone

    Original title: Lihast ja luust

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    The ancient burial mounds in Niklusmäe have been torn up by excavators, the bones are scattered around and the valuable things that were once buried with the bodies have been stolen.

  • Flowers from the Mount of Olives
    Flowers from the Mount of Olives

    Original title: Õlimäe õied

    2013 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heilika Pikkov

    Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.

  • Connected to the Monastery
    Connected to the Monastery

    Original title: Kloostriga seotud

    2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.

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