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  • The Last Relic
    The Last Relic

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

    Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • Year Of The Pig
    Year Of The Pig

    Original title: Sea aasta

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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.

  • To Share Or Not To Share
    To Share Or Not To Share

    Original title: Jagada või mitte jagada

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Minna Hint, Meelis Muhu

    How to live carefree and without money ?

  • 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.

  • At Home with Refugees
    At Home with Refugees

    Original title: Pagulasega elutoas

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Kristina Norman

    Jana is a manager of an asylum centre in a small Estonian village. People from various culture and with different backgrounds are waiting for the verdicts that will change their destinies.

  • Together, yet Apart
    Together, yet Apart

    Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

    Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

  • In the State of Limbo
    In the State of Limbo

    Title in Estonian: PMR

    2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Meelis Muhu, Kristina Norman

    Filmmakers Meelis Muhu and Kristina Norman observe life in Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, that is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova governed by the real Soviet order.

  • Pit No. 8
    Pit No. 8

    2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marianna Kaat

  • Jubilee Year
    Jubilee Year

    Original title: Juubliaasta

    2009 | Documentary | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kaspar Kallas

    Chronicle film about the events in the Republic of Estonia in 2008.

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