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  • New Life
    New Life

    Original title: Uus elu

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

    A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion.

  • Maria ’s Paradise
    Maria ’s Paradise

    Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

    The angel will guide us.

  • Out to Get Some Coffee or Something
    Out to Get Some Coffee or Something

    2019 | Students film, Animation | Director: Eva Pajusaar

    This short drawn anima3on by BFM student Eva Pajusaar depicts in an absurd fashion the aqtude of younger genera3ons regarding the problems of today’s society.

  • Roots: With Mum At The Monastery
    Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

    Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

  • Canvascity
    Canvascity

    Original title: Lõuendilinn

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

    Imagine a city, where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colors and little phrases. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.

  • Piano
    Piano

    Original title: Piano

    2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

    A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.

  • Kurvits Lootuse tänavalt
    Kurvits Lootuse tänavalt

    2014 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

  • Man of the Day
    Man of the Day

    2011 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Anna Kanska

    Etude film by media student Anna Kanska in the subject "Directing Fiction". A heroic story about a boy who wants to help a girl who has become a victim of a thief.

  • Iron Rose Blossoms
    Iron Rose Blossoms

    Original title: Raudroosiõied

    2001 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karol Ansip

  • On Villardi Street, Tallinn in 1989
    On Villardi Street, Tallinn in 1989

    Title in Estonian: Tallinnas Villardi tänaval 1989

    1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Enn Nõu observes two buildings on Villardi Street, Tallinn on March 31, 1989.

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