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  • Time Quartet: In The Storm of Roses
    Time Quartet: In The Storm of Roses

    Original title: Ajakvartett: Rooside rajus

    2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director:

    The nurse looks after the roses; the grandchild teaches Granny TikTok; ancient Romans walk around in the garden to the sounds of a saxophone. Countries, roads and people branch out in branching times.

  • Roots: Wombstone
    Roots: Wombstone

    Original title: Juured: Emakivi

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Kersti Uibo

    The sounds of gently breaking waves or fluttering insect’s wings are telling the story of our roots long before human footprints were first left on Baltic beaches.

  • Take It or Leave It
    Take It or Leave It

    Original title: Võta või jäta

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

  • The Mystery of the Kaleva
    The Mystery of the Kaleva

    Original title: Kaleva müsteerium

    2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sigrid Reede

    Documentary about the Finnish passenger aircraft OH-ALL Kaleva that was shot down by two Soviet bombers above the Baltic Sea in 1940.

  • Legacy
    Legacy

    Original title: Pärand

    2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

    The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

  • Merest sündnud maa
    Merest sündnud maa

    2010 | Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Ago Ruus

  • His Majesty`s Warship
    His Majesty`s Warship

    Original title of the film: Tema Majesteedi sõjalaev

    2001 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

    The film is dedicated to the sailors who fought in the Estonian War of Independence (start title). Actions of the British Royal Naval squadron in the Gulf of Finland in years of the Estonian War of Independence and story of perishing of the minesweeper sloop HMS Myrtle.

  • Traces of Empire: Paldiski 1994
    Traces of Empire: Paldiski 1994

    Original title: Impeeriumi jäljed: Paldiski 1994

    1994 | Commissioned, Documentary, Other categories | Director: Mati Talvik

    Documentary about the situation in Paldiski and Pakri islands after the Soviet army left Estonia in 1994.

  • Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution
    Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution

    Original title: Impeeriumi jäljed: Radioaktiivne reostus

    1994 | Other categories, Commissioned, Documentary, Problem oriented | Director:

    Documentary talks about the radioactive pollution areas left by the Soviet Empire.

  • In Altja on June 23, 1990
    In Altja on June 23, 1990

    Title in Estonian: Altjal 23.06.1990

    1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    On Altja beach in Lahemaa National Park, on June 23, 1990.

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