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  • Grass
    Grass

    Original title: Murust

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

    Film about grass.

  • 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.

  • Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony
    Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony

    Original title: Gurt vös - külapalvus

    2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

  • Tol mör vös - Joint Winter Ceremony
    Tol mör vös - Joint Winter Ceremony

    Original title: Tol mör vös - talvine ühispalvus

    2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

  • Hunter
    Hunter

    Original title: Kütt

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

  • Whitsunday At Tammealuse
    Whitsunday At Tammealuse

    Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

    2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

    Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

  • Children of Tunkashila
    Children of Tunkashila

    Original title in Estonian: "Tunkashila lapsed"

    2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

  • Holy Coffee!
    Holy Coffee!

    Original title (in Finnish): "Pyha kahvi"

    2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Antti Häkli

  • Andy stands up
    Andy stands up

    Original title: Andy astub üles

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Elen Lotman

    Stand-up comedian Andrus Valvur, an Estonian expatriate born in New York, comes to visit his fatherland in order to meet his relatives and hold a performance in Estonian for local audience for the first time.

  • Jackpot
    Jackpot

    Original title: Jackpot

    2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Eva-Katariina Taimre

    Cinéma vérité documentary about two lottery winners and their lives before and after the big victory.

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