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  • Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary
    Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

    Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

    2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

    An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

  • Loved
    Loved

    Original title: Armastasin

    2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Natalja Matšenene

    When a stage director Anna and a businessman Maxim meet they both get the feeling that they have known each other for ages. Nevertheless they can't take their relationship further due to personal values and social norms. One day Anna comes to a regression therapy and finds out about her previous lives.

  • Accidents are not accidental
    Accidents are not accidental

    Original title (in Russian): "Случайности не случайны"

    2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Polina Linovitskaja

    Story about woman and man who do not know that they have a common friend and this friend does not know that they are husband and wife.

  • Family Lies
    Family Lies

    Original title: Perekonnavaled

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

    “Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

  • Spring à la Carte
    Spring à la Carte

    Original title (in Estonian): "Kevad à la carte"

    2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Doris Tääker

  • Highlight
    Highlight

    Original title: Tähetund

    2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Marge Monko

  • Circulation of the Blood
    Circulation of the Blood

    Original title: Vereringe

    2011 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

    Short film directed by Peeter Simm about lonely people in the blood circulation of society.

  • Reasonable People
    Reasonable People

    2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Darta Putnina

    Dartia Putnina's, student of Baltic Film and Media school, first course film "Reasonable People" tells a story of Mikk and Katriin, a young cupola who is out to buy some vine before going to a party.

  • 1+1
    1+1

    2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Aleksandr Rachynskyi

    Young couple decides to refresh their feelings and relationship in unusual way.

  • A Dream
    A Dream

    2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Helen Takkin

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