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  • Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love
    Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

    Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

    A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

  • Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson
    Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

  • Scandinavian Silence
    Scandinavian Silence

    Original title: Skandinaavia vaikus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Martti Helde

    We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.

  • Declined
    Declined

    Original title in Estonian: "Tagasilükatud"

    2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Janeli Pelska

    The first short ficton film of BFM film arts students is an awkwardlly funny story about the importance of money to different types of people.

  • Pets and Berlin
    Pets and Berlin

    Original title: Pets ja Berliin

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Taavi Arus

    A story about a legend of Estonian punk scene Peeter Männiksoo aka Pasa-Pets who has been living for years in Berlin. It is a story about a man's survival in a big city, a story about loneliness, struggle and freedom. It's a poem about Pets and Berlin.

  • 9mm
    9mm

    2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Erik Hans Sepp

    This short film directed by Erik Hans Sepp tells a story of a thief who gets taught a lesson he will remember for the rest of his life.

  • The Overcoat
    The Overcoat

    Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

    2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

    A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

  • Astrid
    Astrid

    2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sander Koit

    Unlikely friendship between an old woman and a thief.

  • Emajõgi
    Emajõgi

    2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Priit Põhjala

  • Endless Summer
    Endless Summer

    Original title (in Estonian): "Lõputu suvi"

    2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Penjam

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