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  • KINORANOK
    KINORANOK

    2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ruslan Mustafaev

    Documentary about a peaceful life in front of the war.

  • Over the Line
    Over the Line

    Original title in Estonian: Üle piiri

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

    The focus of the short film is on people struggling with their darker side, hiding their lies from others and themselves.

  • 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.

  • Helsinki - Baghdad
    Helsinki - Baghdad

    Original title in Finnish: "Helsinki - Bagdad"

    2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vilma Mannermaa

    Iraqi refugees in Finland try to stay in the country.

  • The Spy and the Poet
    The Spy and the Poet

    Original title: Luuraja ja luuletaja

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

    Nobody knows what anybody knows.

  • See You In Chechnya
    See You In Chechnya

    Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

    2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

    If you go to war, war will come home with you.

  • Life on Slippery Ice
    Life on Slippery Ice

    Original title: Elu libedal jääl

    2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Brett Orloff

    Who are the refugees living among us? How have they come here? How is it possible (if at all) for them to adopt to the life in Estonia?

  • Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music
  • Lobotomy
    Lobotomy

    Original title: Lobotoomia

    2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Juri Haštševatski

  • Three Stories About ...
    Three Stories About ...

    Original title: Sellised kolm lugu: Aida

    1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

    Short film directed by Peeter Simm is inspired by a shipwreck that took place near Sõrve Peninsula, Deember 1994.

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