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  • Roots: A Poem About Love
    Roots: A Poem About Love

    Original title: Juured: Poeem armastusest

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Nora Särak, Dominik Krutsky

    It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

  • Roots: Waiting For A Miracle
    Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

    Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

    The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

  • Snowbirds
    Snowbirds

    Original title: Kliimapagulased

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

    Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

  • The Bank
    The Bank

    Original title: Pank

    2018 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Marianne Kõrver, Jan-Erik Nõgisto, Juhan Ulfsak, Rainer Sarnet

    When you are winning, you don’t see what you lose.

  • The Wind Sculpted Land
    The Wind Sculpted Land

    Original title: Tuulte tahutud maa

    2018 | Documentary, Nature, Overviews | Director: Joosep Matjus

  • Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies
    Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

    Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

    A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

  • Soviet Hippies
    Soviet Hippies

    Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

    Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

  • Doktor Silva
    Doktor Silva

    2016 | TV Serial, TV3 Serial | Director: Ergo Kuld

  • Dance With The Devil's Grandma
    Dance With The Devil's Grandma

    Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

    The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

  • Heart of a Wolf
    Heart of a Wolf

    Original title: Hundi süda sees

    2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Liina Paakspuu

    Heart of A Wolf is a documentary about the nature of Nordic folk metal featuring Metsatöll from Estonia and Finntroll from Finland.

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