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  • Bad Ass Merike
    Bad Ass Merike

    Original title: Vinge mutt

    2024 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andres Keil

    She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

  • Hell's Stoker
    Hell's Stoker

    Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

    2023 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

    It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

  • Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary
    Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

    Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

    2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

    An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

  • Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life
    Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life

    Original title: Pilt, mis öösel liigutas

    2023 | Other types of animation, Animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

    It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside!

  • 2 Hours to Happiness
    2 Hours to Happiness

    Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

    2022 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Moonika Siimets

    Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

  • Estonian Rhapsody
    Estonian Rhapsody

    Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

    2022 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

  • Lumi ja Leenu
    Lumi ja Leenu

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

    A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

  • 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.

  • Raudvara. Anu Raud
    Raudvara. Anu Raud

    2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Erle Veber

  • 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 | Full length feature, Feature film | 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.

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