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  • Bright Eyes of the Complex Mind
    Bright Eyes of the Complex Mind

    Original title in Russian: Яркие Глаза Ненасытного Разума

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mark Pervakov

    Artyom is a 25 year old architect who started sewing. Whether this will be another fleeting idea in his head or whether it will become something more serious, even Artyom himself does not yet know, but he is deeply immersed in a new hobby.

  • My dear happiness
    My dear happiness

    2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Franz Wendler

    This is a documentary that was filmed in a vox-pops style and tries to answer the question about the subjectivity of happiness.

  • Not too hard and not in the face
    Not too hard and not in the face

    Original title in Estonian: Mitte näkku ja mitte väga valusalt

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

    An adaptation film by students of the second year of cinematography, the script of which is inspired by P.I. Filimonov's short story “Not too hard and not in the face”.

  • Walker on Water
    Walker on Water

    Original title: Vetelkõndija

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

    A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

  • Breakthrough
    Breakthrough

    Original title in Estonian: Murrang

    2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Iris Peil

    Breakthrough is a story of one man’s journey into his own consciousness. When Janus experiences the catharsis, he understands that it is finally time to change his life.

  • Hiatus
    Hiatus

    Original title in Estonian: Hingetõmbehetk

    2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Nele Aunap

    Human activity on hold offers a new perception of the world we have built.

  • A Year Full of Drama
    A Year Full of Drama

    Original title: Aasta täis draamat

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

    A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

  • 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.

  • Tõnis Mägi
    Tõnis Mägi

    2019 | Music Documentary, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Priit Pääsuke

    A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.

  • Fire Lily
    Fire Lily

    Original title: Tuliliilia

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maria Avdjuško

    Life finds a way.

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