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  • 2 Hours to Happiness
    2 Hours to Happiness

    Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

    2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

    Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Circle
    Circle

    Original title: Ring

    2004 | Short, Feature film | Director: Andrus Tuisk

    Short drama directed by Andrus Tuisk about the Oedipal conflict between father and son.

  • Don´t Kill the School, Please!
    Don´t Kill the School, Please!

    Original title: Ärge pange kooli kinni

    2000 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Ago Ruus

    The Metsküla Elementary School is a classic example of the joys and problems of the current education system. Today, there are 22 students and 3 teachers here. And yet, the threat of closure looms over this school as well. If the school dies – the town will die with it.

  • Alma Teder in Askvägen on April 24,1983
    Alma Teder in Askvägen on April 24,1983

    Title in Estonian: Alma Teder Askvägenil 24.04.1983

    1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Writer Alma Teder is talking to Helga Nõu about school issues, writing and her dream in her garden in Askvägen on April 24, 1983.

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