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  • Hell's Stoker
    Hell's Stoker

    Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

    2023 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

    It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

  • 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.

  • Melchior the Apothecary
    Melchior the Apothecary

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior

    2022 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

  • Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost
    Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

    2022 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant.

  • 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.

  • Shards Of Light
    Shards Of Light

    Original title: Jagatud valgus

    2018 | Portrait, Documentary | 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.

  • The Sacred In The Secular
    The Sacred In The Secular

    2014 | Produced in foreign university, Students film | Director: Karin Leivategija

    Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio.

  • 6th January (Epiphany)
    6th January (Epiphany)

    Original title (in Estonian): "6.jaanuar (Kolmekuningapäev)"

    2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Nora Särak

  • Patriarh Aleksius II Tallinnas
    Patriarh Aleksius II Tallinnas

    1990 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Gennadi Meleško

  • Üks hetk
    Üks hetk

    1988 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Jaak Lõhmus

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