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  • Feathers or Glamour
    Feathers or Glamour

    Original title: Suled või glamuur

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

    How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Soviet Friendsbook
    Soviet Friendsbook

    Original title: Ankeet

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

    It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.

  • Roots: With Mum At The Monastery
    Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

    Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

  • Take It or Leave It
    Take It or Leave It

    Original title: Võta või jäta

    2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

  • The Last Prince
    The Last Prince

    Original title: Viimane vürst

    2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

    A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy.

  • The Little Comrade
    The Little Comrade

    Original title: Seltsimees laps

    2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Moonika Siimets

    Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

  • Estonian village in Ghana
    Estonian village in Ghana

    Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

    2016 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Documentary | Director: Kalle Käesel

    Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.

  • Living Together a la Sri Lanka
    Living Together a la Sri Lanka

    Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

    2016 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Documentary | Director: Mati Kark

    The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

  • Outdoor Games
    Outdoor Games

    Title in Estonian: Õuemängud

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

    Nine mothers establishing the first outdoor community preschool in Tartu, Estonia.

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