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  • Feathers or Glamour
    Feathers or Glamour

    Original title: Suled või glamuur

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

    How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

  • Keyhole
    Keyhole

    2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Juri Krutii

    World of a young gymnast is forever altered by a door that won’t open, marking the end of childhood and the beginning of her life as an anchor of memory.

  • Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter
    Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

    2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

  • 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.

  • The Academy of Elegant Aging
    The Academy of Elegant Aging

    Original title: Väärika vananemise akadeemia

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Sigrid Salutee

    It is a fun insight into the life of a day center for elderly.

  • Under The Shade Of A Tree
    Under The Shade Of A Tree

    Original title: Ühe puu varjus

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

    This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

  • Estonian Rhapsody
    Estonian Rhapsody

    Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

    2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

  • Hit Big
    Hit Big

    Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

    On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

  • Minsk
    Minsk

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Boris Guts

    Minsk. August 2020. Pavel and Julia, a young couple, go out at night…During 1,5 hours, their life changes completely.

  • Tiiu and the Dragon
    Tiiu and the Dragon

    Original title in Estonian: Tiiu ja draakon

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Teresa Juksaar

    Aunty Tiiu is hosting a dance party at her house and is thrilled when for once more than 3 people show up, but unfortunately it’s the raging dragon outside that brought them there.

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