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  • Bog acoustics
    Bog acoustics

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Johanna Mägin

    The film observes the physical and acoustical experiences the bog landscape has to offer to a nature photographer and hiking guide Romet Vaino.

  • Roots: A Poem About Love
    Roots: A Poem About Love

    Original title: Juured: Poeem armastusest

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Nora Särak, Dominik Krutsky

    It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

  • The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

    Original title: Põrgu Jaan

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

    "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

  • Life on the Mother River
    Life on the Mother River

    Original title: Emajõe veemaailm

    2015 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

    Little Aleksander Remek together with his filmmaker dad discover the world of the ancient River Emajõgi (Mother River in Estonian).

  • Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea
    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

    Original title: Regilaul - laulud õhust

    2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Ulrike Koch

    This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song.

  • Keepers of Seven Powers
    Keepers of Seven Powers

    2010 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

  • From Udmurtia with Love
    From Udmurtia with Love

    Original title of the film: Udmurtiast armastusega

    2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õnne Luha

  • Maimu
    Maimu

    2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

    16-year-old Maimu lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Puka, Estonia; speaks several languages and prepares for Norwegian studies in Saint Petersburg University.

  • The Dreamer
    The Dreamer

    Original title: Unistaja

    2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mart Taevere

  • Lovesick
    Lovesick

    2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Patrick Collerton

    A teenager is trapped by the seemingly charming lifestyle of hammerheads and is coaxed to a forest near Tallinn. There, the teenager will meet a seducer of a totally different kind.

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