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  • A Memory of Friendship
    A Memory of Friendship

    Original title in Estonian: Sõpruse mälestus

    2024 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

    As the filmmaker seeks answers within the intricate layers of his upbringing, we are invited to join him on a profound voyage of self-discovery, where the true essence of home and belonging is uncovered.

  • TWO by TWO
    TWO by TWO

    2023 | Short, Students film | Director: Chris Todorovic

    Eden and Leo are stuck in a malfunctioning elevator, during this time they find the one thing that they have been missing for the last 20 years.

  • Walker on Water
    Walker on Water

    Original title: Vetelkõndija

    2022 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

    A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

  • Õite lõhn
    Õite lõhn

    2022 | Other categories | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

  • Burning porcelain
    Burning porcelain

    Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

    2021 | Exercises (Fiction), Students film | Director: Greta Liht

    The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

  • Estonian Funeral
    Estonian Funeral

    Original title: Eesti matus

    2021 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: René Vilbre

    Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

  • Rapid Eye Movement
    Rapid Eye Movement

    2020 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Abdolhossein Rezvani

    Abdolhossein Rezevani’s dreamy documentary takes us down on the memory lane of the filmmaker’s life and the collective memory of Iran as a whole.

  • Border Youth
    Border Youth

    Original title: Noored piiril

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

  • Cosmonaut
    Cosmonaut

    Original title: Kosmonaut

    2019 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Kaspar Jancis

    A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.

  • Guide of Torture
    Guide of Torture

    2019 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Ville Niemi

    Exhibition manager of the KGB prison cells ponders how telling stories of the tortured in his daily life affects to him, in a story that flickers between reality and the past of the tortured prisoner.

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