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  • It's like summer, but in fact it's random
    It's like summer, but in fact it's random

    Original title in Estonian: Nagu oleks suvi, aga tegelikult on suva

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

    In a sighted world, a young poet who has been blind since birth. Loneliness and sadness often haunt him. His art becomes a kind of tool that helps him to exist and navigate in the darkness and society.

  • Reverse Gear
    Reverse Gear

    Original title in Estonian: Tagurpidikäik

    2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

    The film is about a selfish guy who is inattentive to other people. Nevertheless, he receives help and a sense of life.

  • Tales Of A Toy Horse
    Tales Of A Toy Horse

    Original title in Ukrainian: Казка про Коника

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi, Rodion Shub

    Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.

  • The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow
    The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

    Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

    Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

  • The Look
    The Look

    Original title (in Estonian): "Pilk"

    2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Mairi Sõelsepp

    A fiction film about a man who lives with a curse.

  • Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ
    Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

    Original title: Allan

    2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

    If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

  • Apples of the Eye
    Apples of the Eye

    Original title in Estonian: Silmaterad

    2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristina Amor

  • Castle of Myself
    Castle of Myself

    2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Katrina Tomasicka

  • The Man Who Opens Doors
    The Man Who Opens Doors

    Original title: Mees, kes avab uksi

    2003 | Documentary | Director: Igor Ruus

    Two blind men want to live a full life despite of their disability and help others.

  • Inimene ja koduloom
    Inimene ja koduloom

    1991 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran

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