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  • Rauaniit
    Rauaniit

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

    To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy.

  • 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.

  • Dearest Sister
    Dearest Sister

    Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mattie Do

    A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

  • Living Together a la Sri Lanka
    Living Together a la Sri Lanka

    Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

    2016 | Documentary, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Mati Kark

    The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

  • Villa Antropoff
    Villa Antropoff

    2012 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

    Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?

  • A Normal Human Being
    A Normal Human Being

    Original title: Normaalne inimene

    2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Tanno Mee, Kaidi Tamm

    Lots of people in the success oriented society are struggling with personal crisis and trying to escape it; this makes one question the validity of default choices one has made.

  • Independence Day
    Independence Day

    Original title: Eesti lood. Iseseisvuspäev

    2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Students film | Director: Hanna Šein

    Life of four young persons with different social background in today's Estonia, right before the local independence day, February 24, 2003.

  • I am not a Tourist, I Live Here
    I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

    Part 1 and 2

    1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

    The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

  • The Beggar
    The Beggar

    Original title: Kerjus

    1985 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat

  • In the Backyard
    In the Backyard

    Original title: Tagahoovis

    1957 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Viktor Nevežin

    The film directed by Viktor Nevezhin is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts, depicting the life in slums in 1930s with melacholy humour and colourful characters. It is the first Estonian film adaptation of a literary classics where the best drama actors of that time perform.

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