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  • Fire Speaks
    Fire Speaks

    Original title: Tule sõnumid

    2024 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

    A documentary about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge.

  • Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud
    Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

  • Wild South: Sewing Machine
    Wild South: Sewing Machine

    Original title: Metsi lõuna: Õmblusmasin

    2024 | Documentary, | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    About being human and remaining human even in the most hopeless moment.

  • Gori The Caricaturist
    Gori The Caricaturist

    Original title: Gorikaturist

    2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

    A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

  • Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!
    Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!

    2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kiur Aarma

  • Legends of Winding Roads
    Legends of Winding Roads

    Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

    Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

  • Paul Keres
    Paul Keres

    2023 | Documentary, Portrait, | Director: Toomas Lepp, Rainer Sarnet

    When this documentary reached the editing table, the British newspaper The Guardian, which reaches thirty million readers, featured an article by renowned chess writer Leonard Barden, “Pride of Estonia: Paul Keres, one of the best to never hold chess world crown”.

  • Who am I Smiling For?
    Who am I Smiling For?

    Original title: Kellele ma naeratan?

    2023 | Documentary, | Director: Eeva Mägi

    Sometimes you need to be reborn to understand that death is not the end of life. A film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.

  • Between the Three
    Between the Three

    Original title: Kolmevahel

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Marek Vahula

    The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.

  • Crush
    Crush

    2022 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Andres Kostiv, Martin Kirsipuu

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