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  • The Wayfarers
    The Wayfarers

    Original title: Rändajad

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Eva Sepping

    Three Siberian Estonian women are looking for paradise here and outside the borders.

  • Tales Of A Toy Horse
    Tales Of A Toy Horse

    Original title in Ukrainian: Казка про Коника

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi, Rodion Shub

    Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.

  • Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson
    Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

  • Water in a Sieve. Merle Karusoo
    Water in a Sieve. Merle Karusoo

    Original title: Sõelaga vett. Merle Karusoo

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristin Raup, Madli Lääne

    A biographical documentary film by Kristin Raup and Madli Lääne about Merle Karusoo, the Estonian stage director and collector of local biographies.

  • Cat’s Eye
    Cat’s Eye

    2020 | Students film, Animation | Director:

    A cat's happy childhood unexpectedly ends when she falls into a river and this eye-opening experience leaves a permanent mark.

  • Lembri Uudu
    Lembri Uudu

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

  • Homecoming
    Homecoming

    Original title (in Estonian): "Kodu"

    2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Loore-Emilie Raav

    A documentary by the student Loore Emilie Raav is about the animal protector Kadri Taperson living in Hiiumaa and her everyday work and life on the island regarding the animal protection. At the same time the leading character Kadri has an animal shelter in her personal home.

  • How I Saved Africa
    How I Saved Africa

    Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

    2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

    A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

  • Crimean teacher
    Crimean teacher

    Original title: Krimmi õpetaja

    2009 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.

  • Smiling Women
    Smiling Women

    Original title: Naeratavad naised

    2003 | Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    Kihnu is an island of women since they have always maintained optimism and households in that island.

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