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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.

  • Funeral Diaries
    Funeral Diaries

    Original title: Matusepäevikud

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

  • In Bed With A Writer
    In Bed With A Writer

    Original title: Kirjanikuga voodis

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

  • The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road

    Original title in Finnish: Ikitie

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

    Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.

  • Come Back Free
    Come Back Free

    Original title: Tule tagasi vabana

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

    A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison.

  • Tangerines
    Tangerines

    Original title: Mandariinid

    2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaza Urušadze

    The film is an Estonian-Georgian co-production about a wise Estonian man living in an Abkhazian village during the turbulent times of Abkhazian-Georgian military conflict in the autumn of 1992. The Estonian takes care of two wounded enemies, trying to help both men to find a human solution in this ruthless war.

  • Graveyard Keeper's Daughter
    Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

    Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

    2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Laur

    The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

  • Calling - War Cameramen
    Calling - War Cameramen

    Original title: Kutse

    2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

    War cameraman Ivar Heinmaa defies danger and death while working in the various crisis areas in the world.

  • White Route
    White Route

    The original title "Valge Tee"

    2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

  • Südamelaul
    Südamelaul

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Kersti Uibo

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