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  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Old Man Cartoon Movie
    Old Man Cartoon Movie

    Original title: Vanamehe Film

    2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

    This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.

  • Captain Morten And The Spider Queen
    Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

    Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

    2018 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

    Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

  • Maran
    Maran

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ants Tammik

    Documentary about nature photographer Rein Maran who shares his thoughts about his experiences in nature and philosophy of life.

  • Mountains That Were Not There
    Mountains That Were Not There

    Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

    A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

  • 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.

  • Trill
    Trill

    2010 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ivan Pavljutškov

  • Heart of the Bear
    Heart of the Bear

    Original title: Karu süda

    2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

    The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.

  • Koera surm
    Koera surm

    1998 | Students film, Short | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

  • The Bird Watcher
    The Bird Watcher

    Original title: Vaatleja

    1987 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

    The first feature film directed by Arvo Iho analyzes the relationships between women, men and nature in the spirit of antique Greek tragedy.

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