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  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

  • Companions
    Companions

    Original title in Estonian: Seltsilised

    2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristiina Iilane

    A short film about loneliness and human need for connection in this life.

  • Walker on Water
    Walker on Water

    Original title: Vetelkõndija

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

    A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

  • Life of Ivanna
    Life of Ivanna

    Original title in Russian: Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano

    From the harsh, nomadic life on the tundra to an uncertain future with five children. Four years in the life of a strong and charismatic woman as vital, physical film art.

  • Blue
    Blue

    Original title: Sinine

    2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

    When two strangers’ paths cross after a car accident, the woman hijacks the situation and gets into the man’s car, demanding that he take her away from the scene. As the man tries to find a way out of the situation, fragments from the woman’s past start painting a picture of the tragic events that happened to her.

  • Erna At War
    Erna At War

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

    When Erna’s simple-minded son, Kalle, is conscripted for military service, she swaps identity with a soldier and heads towards the front to protect her child. While the world is at war, Erna fights her own.

  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

    Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

  • Fire Lily
    Fire Lily

    Original title: Tuliliilia

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maria Avdjuško

    Life finds a way.

  • Mother
    Mother

    Original title: Ema

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

    Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

  • 40+2 weeks
    40+2 weeks

    Original title: 40+2 nädalat

    2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Margit Lillak

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