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  • Love...
    Love...

    Original title: Armastus...

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

    It happens in the best families.

  • The Perpetuum Mobile And Infinite Souls
    The Perpetuum Mobile And Infinite Souls

    Original title: Perpetuum mobile ja piiritud hinged

    2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Veermäe, Marianne Kõrver

    Two men’s journeys take them through the ups and downs of life. One of them has changed into a woman and the other into a monk. Will they find the magnetic forces they need to turn on the perpetuum mobile that will help them find someone to share their lives with and somewhere to belong?

  • The Plague
    The Plague

    Original title: Katk

    2017 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Keil

    There are about ten thousand drug addicts who inject in Estonia. At some point, that could come closer to home than we think. This is an addiction epidemic. This is our century’s plague. We can notice. And we can care.

  • Täideviija
    Täideviija

    2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Roald Johannson

  • Dearest Sister
    Dearest Sister

    Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mattie Do

    A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

  • Estonian village in Ghana
    Estonian village in Ghana

    Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

    2016 | Documentary, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | 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.

  • Gorilla Tourism
    Gorilla Tourism

    Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

    2016 | Documentary, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Märten Vaher

    Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

  • Mercato
    Mercato

    Original title: Turu majandus

    2016 | Documentary, Observation, Making of, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Mihkel Ulk

    Documentary film “Mercato" takes the viewer into one of the world’s poorest counties, Ethiopia. In the largest open air market in Africa, we follow the most ordinary working day of 10 year old shoe shine boys, wood-carrying ladies, an arrogant messenger and a well educated tourist guide.

  • Our world is theirs
    Our world is theirs

    Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

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

    Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

  • The Days That Confused
    The Days That Confused

    Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

    The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

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