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  • Tukdam: Between Worlds
    Tukdam: Between Worlds

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Donagh Coleman

    First document about a Tibetan meditation that preserves the body from days to weeks after traditionally considered death.

  • 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.

  • In Bed With A Writer
    In Bed With A Writer

    Original title: Kirjanikuga voodis

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

    Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

  • The Plague
    The Plague

    Original title: Katk

    2017 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Keil

    There are about ten thousand drug addicts who inject in Estonia. At some point, that could come closer to home than we think. This is an addiction epidemic. This is our century’s plague. We can notice. And we can care.

  • Lake Bodom
    Lake Bodom

    Original title: Bodom

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Taneli Mustonen

    Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls decide to rewrite history.

  • Phobos
    Phobos

    Original title: Phobos

    2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Oleg Assadulin

    A horror film directed by Russian filmmaker Oleg Assadulin telling the story about young people who go to a night club built in a bomb shelter and will be trapped in a mysterious labyrinth.

  • Tristan and Isolde
    Tristan and Isolde

    Title in Estonian: Sellised kolm lugu: Tristan ja Izolde

    1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Askolds Saulitis

    Confusing and crazy story about the adventures of two lovers in the underworld in Latvia.

  • Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster
    Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

    Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

    1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar

  • Why do the stars fall
    Why do the stars fall

    Original title: Miks kukuvad tähed

    1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

    Documentary on problematic issues directed by Märt Müür whose film tells a story about diligent and successful heads of collective farm and how the Soviet system has unjustly harassed them, found them guilty and punished them.

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