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  • Art of Righteous
    Art of Righteous

    Original title: Õiglased

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

    A movie about “extras” or actors in minor background roles in movies/series/ads. The protagonists are all locally recognised hobby actors, who have accumulated loads experience from shoots - now it’s time to make their own movie.

  • It All Happened In Võru
    It All Happened In Võru

    Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

    An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

  • The Missed Wonder
    The Missed Wonder

    Original title: Tabamata ime

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Eret Kuusk

  • Anthill
    Anthill

    Original title: Sipelgapesa

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

    Vladimir Loginov´s “Anthill” is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.

  • Paper Town
    Paper Town

    Original title: Paberist linn

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

    Gentlemen with grand ideas look into the past and future of Narva: Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard in a degrading town hall; Mats Gabrielsson wants to turn Narva into a new Hong Kong in the future.

  • Cabaret
    Cabaret

    Original title: Kabaree

    2012 | Documentary | Director: Gerda Kordemets

    The 11th grade pupils of Saaremaa Grammar School give the special cabaret performance at the end of every year held already for the 23th times.

  • The Pigeons
    The Pigeons

    Original title of the film: Tuvid

    2012 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Kadriann Kibus

  • Dreamland Queens
    Dreamland Queens

    2005 | Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    Around ten women get together in a tight dressing room three times a week - meet the ice-hockey team Dreamland Queens. The team includes young girls, housewives, a kindergarten teacher, a teacher, a student and a businesswoman.

  • Franka
    Franka

    Original title: Franka

    2003 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Siiri Timmerman

    Frantšeska Vakkum, project manager at Kuressaare Open Youth Center, deals with problematic young people and wants to make the world a better place while helping children.

  • Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 2
    Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 2

    Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, II jagu

    1995-1996 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director: Lembit Blauhut

    Hugo Mitt, electronics and aviation engineer living in Canberra, recalls past events in his life and shows his collection of beer cans.

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