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  • 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?

  • Help, I Need Love
    Help, I Need Love

    Original title: Appi, ma vajan armastust

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Minna Hint

    Love is not for everybody.

  • Sparkling Rivers
    Sparkling Rivers

    Original title: Sädemete jõed

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

    Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

  • Dance With The Devil's Grandma
    Dance With The Devil's Grandma

    Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

    The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

  • Lobotomy
    Lobotomy

    Original title: Lobotoomia

    2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Juri Haštševatski

  • What's Your Name?
    What's Your Name?

    Original title: Mis su nimi on?

    2009 | Feature film, Short | Director: Maria Avdjuško

    Anecdotal story about a known intellectual who unexpectedly is given a new identity and during one night he will find out that he might actually need it in the future.

  • Elf Disco
    Elf Disco

    Original title: Päkapikudisko

    2001 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

    Expedition by filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi to the hidden world of violence where the victims are children.

  • Iron Rose Blossoms
    Iron Rose Blossoms

    Original title: Raudroosiõied

    2001 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karol Ansip

  • About Johannes Hint
    About Johannes Hint

    Title in Estonian: Johannes Hindist

    1989 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Sööt

    Documentary directed by Andres Sööt about doctor of technology Johannes Hint, his scientific research, his "guilt" and posthumous rehabilitation.

  • Kes tühistas Tartu rahu?
    Kes tühistas Tartu rahu?

    1989 | Documentary | Director: Marika Villa

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