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  • Lynx Man
    Lynx Man

    Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

    After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

  • Sauna bliss
    Sauna bliss

    Original title in Estonian: Sauna õndsus

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kamilla Abdullajeva

    Documentary shows a couples sauna ritual and shows the importances of the ritual. Sauna master gave an interview, in which she talks in more detail about the ritual and the couple does the sauna ritual, guided by sauna master, in Iglupark.

  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

  • Cherry Tobacco
    Cherry Tobacco

    Original title: Kirsitubakas

    2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

    Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

  • A New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner
    A New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner

    Original title: Uus päev luuakse idakaares

    2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peeter Brambat

    In this film, we look at the Setos – a European ethnic group who are wedged between two different cultures – the Orthodox East and the Catholic-Lutheran West. This is the story of a people who make do, living on the Eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world. One way or another, they are involved in the dawning of a new day for themselves and Europe.

  • From Udmurtia with Love
    From Udmurtia with Love

    Original title of the film: Udmurtiast armastusega

    2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õnne Luha

  • Flying Free
    Flying Free

    Original title: Elluastujad

    2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    An intimate and fast-paced documentary-journal of two 18-year old girls.

  • Palju õnne!
    Palju õnne!

    2004 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

  • Turismilinn Tallinn
    Turismilinn Tallinn

    1992 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

  • Eesti hällilaulud
    Eesti hällilaulud

    1989 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp

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