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  • Ott Tänak -The Movie
    Ott Tänak -The Movie

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Tarvo Mölder

    The film portrays Estonian rally driver Ott Tänak, one of the most elusive athletes in the eyes of the media with highly reclusive character. His self-willed tenacity has forged this stubborn country boy with a roller coaster career into a driven WRC-pilot who for the first time has in reach the fulfilment of his childhood dream – to snatch the world championship title from the equally hungry competitors.

  • Empty Space
    Empty Space

    Original title: Tühi ruum

    2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    Documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.

  • Papa
    Papa

    2014 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Girlin Bassovskaja

    Mother tries to keep together a family that is falling to pieces. It is nearly an impossible task if the other side is not making an equal effort.

  • Body Memory
    Body Memory

    Original title: Keha mälu

    2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine.

  • Silent Surrender
    Silent Surrender

    Original title: Ma elasin Eesti Vabariigis

    2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    Documentary by Liina Triškina about the year of 1939 that was fateful for the republic of Estonia. The film studies the subjects of freedom and critical situations, doings and undoings.

  • Sisters across the Gulf of Finland
    Sisters across the Gulf of Finland

    Original title: Soome lahe õed

    2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Imbi Paju

  • Jackpot
    Jackpot

    Original title: Jackpot

    2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Eva-Katariina Taimre

    Cinéma vérité documentary about two lottery winners and their lives before and after the big victory.

  • A Family
    A Family

    Original title: Perekond

    2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

    Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

  • Life for rent
    Life for rent

    Original title: Me ise ennast

    2001 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

    The documentary tries to find answers to the question why the number of suicides is so high in Estonia while investigating the stories of those who have attempted suicide.

  • Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 2
    Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 2

    Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 2. film

    1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

    The second part of the film introducing the life of expatriate Estonians in Australia. Estonians recall their arrival to Australia and their first impressions of the country.

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