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  • Four Stones
    Four Stones

    Original title: Neli kivi

    2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Francesco Rosso

    I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

  • Chasing Unicorns
    Chasing Unicorns

    Original title: Ükssarvik

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

    Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.

  • Life as in Paradise
    Life as in Paradise

    Original title (in Estonian): "Elu nagu paradiisis"

    2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Penjam

  • Sirens
    Sirens

    Original title in Estonian: Sireenid

    2013 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Kaur Kokk

  • Brother
    Brother

    Original title: Vasha

    2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hannu Salonen

    The suspense drama directed by Hannu Salonen tells about loyalty and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness, and about the process of becoming a grown up man in a violent world.

  • Licence Plates of Participants in ESTO 1992
    Licence Plates of Participants in ESTO 1992

    Original title: ESTO 1992 osalejate autonumbrid

    1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Samples of licence plates of the cars belonging to Estonians, filmed during ESTO 1992.

  • Food aid to Latvia
    Food aid to Latvia

    Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

    1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

  • Garage
    Garage

    Title in Estonian: Garaaž

    1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Toomas Lepp

    Documentary about the lack of garages at the end of 1980s.

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

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