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  • Help, I Need Love
    Help, I Need Love

    Original title: Appi, ma vajan armastust

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Minna Hint

    Love is not for everybody.

  • Lembri Uudu
    Lembri Uudu

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi

  • Toys and Totems
    Toys and Totems

    Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

    2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

    We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible. 
Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

  • 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.

  • Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis
    Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

    Original title: Dora Gordine: Ars gratia artis

    2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

    Estonian-British documentary about Dora Gordine (1895-1991), a jewish young woman who grew up in Tallinn, Estonia, and became an internationally renowned sculptor, designer and artistocrat loved by high society.

  • The King of Juice
    The King of Juice

    Original title (in Estonian): "Mahlakuningas"

    2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Keiti Väliste

    An history tv program, portray of a juice manufacturer Dimitri Matiesen who was born in 1908 and revolutionized the juice industry both in Estonia and later in Sweden.

  • Private life
    Private life

    1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin

  • Mälestus sinistes kildudes. Bernard Kangro
    Mälestus sinistes kildudes. Bernard Kangro

    1992 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

  • Turismilinn Tallinn
    Turismilinn Tallinn

    1992 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

  • Daughter raising in the family
    Daughter raising in the family

    Title in Estonian: Peres kasvab tütar

    1988 | Documentary | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski

    Documentary of popular science introduces the growth problems of a teenager girl.

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