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  • Vertical Money
    Vertical Money

    Original title: Vara küps

    2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Martti Helde

    Where have the Estonian forests gone?

  • Time Quartet: After Betelgeuse
    Time Quartet: After Betelgeuse

    Original title: Ajakvartett: Peale Betelgeuset

    2022 | Other categories, Archive footage, Experimental | Director: Len Murusalu

    A journey through the past and future myths of the dormant Livonian language.

  • Tõnis Mägi
    Tõnis Mägi

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke

    A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.

  • Sparkling Rivers
    Sparkling Rivers

    Original title: Sädemete jõed

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

    Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

  • Northern Starfish
    Northern Starfish

    Original title: Põhjatäht

    2014 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mattias Mälk

    A fantasy thriller about a female spy and a diver who knows the secrets of starfish.

  • Forbidden fruit
    Forbidden fruit

    Original title: Keelatud vili

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

    Two enthusiastic Estonians try to become grape farmers while adjusting the grape plants to the local Northern climate and developing the vineyard culture.

  • Closed Windows
    Closed Windows

    2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Max Golomidov

  • In the Footsteps of Middendorff
    In the Footsteps of Middendorff

    Original title: Middendorffi jälgedes

    2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo, Riho Västrik

    Estonian filmmakers with the director of the documentary, Riho Västrik, repeated Alexander Theodor von Middendorff's expedition to the less known areas in Siberia.

  • The Pearlman
    The Pearlman

    Original title: Pärlimees

    2006 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

    A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.

  • The Wind
    The Wind

    Original title in Estonian: Tuul

    2005 | Students film, Short | Director: Tanel Toom

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