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  • Tales Of A Toy Horse
    Tales Of A Toy Horse

    Original title in Ukrainian: Казка про Коника

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi, Rodion Shub

    Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.

  • Cat’s Eye
    Cat’s Eye

    2020 | Students film, Animation | Director:

    A cat's happy childhood unexpectedly ends when she falls into a river and this eye-opening experience leaves a permanent mark.

  • Sparkling Rivers
    Sparkling Rivers

    Original title: Sädemete jõed

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Märten Vaher

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

  • Lemonade Tale
    Lemonade Tale

    Original title: Limonaadi lugu

    2013 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Vallo Toomla

    Little Holger wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy Holger still takes a bottle off the shelf and.... gets sucked into the lemonade bottle!

  • The lake and the city
    The lake and the city

    Original title: Järv ja linn

    2010 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

    Riho Västrik portrays Lake Ülemiste as a source of drinking water and a valuable natural environment.

  • Engagement in Kihnu island
    Engagement in Kihnu island

    Original title: Kihnu kosjad

    2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

    Engagement according to the traditions and customs of Kihnu island, Estonia. The documentary introduces the engagement rites in their most natural environment.

  • Fish On!
    Fish On!

    Original title: Kalarahvas

    2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

    The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

  • Terra Maritima
    Terra Maritima

    Original title: Terra Maritima

    2001 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

    The basis for the dynamic community of the European Union is the harmonization of certain rules. This applies to preservation of nature as well, and thus we hear more and more about the mysterious Natura 2000. Natura 2000 is a Europe-wide network of nature preserves, consisting of bird preserves and nature preserves. A large part of the existing preserves in Estonia fit surprisingly easily into Natura 2000. The film shows the types of habitats in western Estonia, because it was here that the pilot project for Natura 2000 was launched. This land is many thousands of years younger than the inland – even now the earth’s crust is rising here and the land being born from the ocean – Terra Maritima – has a thousand faces. In addition to the coastline, the film introduces various types of meadows - all very valuable habitats.

  • The Lightship Kulis
    The Lightship Kulis

    Original title: Tulelaeva kulid

    2001 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

    Those stories are free of violence and takes place in the middle of a stormy sea filled with reefs. It is about a two brave guys - Kuli and Kuuli, and their gorgeous and ungorgeous acquaintances.

  • Eesti siseveed
    Eesti siseveed

    1989 | Other categories, Commissioned, Educational | Director: Heli Speek

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