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  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

  • Mare Tralla
    Mare Tralla

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

    The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

  • Half Dreaming
    Half Dreaming

    Original title: Sueño

    2020 | Students film, Animation | Director: Maria Rakitina

    A boy wakes up into the night and notices the feather on his pillow and also he finds the hole in the pillow. The dream starts, where he is a participant with the naked birds around him. 

  • The Stork
    The Stork

    Original title: Toonekurg

    2020 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

    A man is struck by a moment of clarity and he becomes a bird...

  • Fire Lily
    Fire Lily

    Original title: Tuliliilia

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maria Avdjuško

    Life finds a way.

  • Mees, kes üllatas kõiki
    Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

    2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

  • Fast Eddy's Old News
    Fast Eddy's Old News

    Original title: Fast Eddy vanad uudised

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    In “Fast Eddy” Director Marko Raat tells the story of Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto) a freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname ‘Fast Eddy’ by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn’t manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy’s downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold?

  • Virolog
    Virolog

    Original title: Viirusekandur

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

    Charismatic freethinker and libertine Kalev Rajangu is searching new intellectual and physical challenges to his life. Unfortunately life is offering only too lousy options.

  • The Devil in the Sauna
    The Devil in the Sauna

    Original title: Kurat tuleb sauna

    2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Maimik

    Short film directed by Andres Maimik about a man and a women trying to save their collapsing relationship in the primeval atmosphere of a smoke sauna.

  • On the Possibility of Love
    On the Possibility of Love

    Original title: Armastuse võimalikkusest

    1999 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma

    The film deals with the right of the individual to choose his own way in a complex world.

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