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  • Recognition
    Recognition

    Original title: Äratundmine

    2023 | Other categories | Director: Krista Jutt

    We navigate through a world of competing signs, where the deeper meaning of a sign often remains incomprehensible.

  • 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.

  • For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives
    For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives

    Original title: Homme saabub paradiis

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    The world is suffering from the flood of food waste, to save the environment and the future of their children, young mothers decide to feed their families by diving into the dumpsters of the enormous supermarkets.

  • Year Of The Pig
    Year Of The Pig

    Original title: Sea aasta

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

  • Eternal Materials
    Eternal Materials

    Original title in Italian: Materiali Eterni

    2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Iari Varriale

    The film shows the main character Ruth taking parts in climate change demonstrations, moments of relationship with the partner Hugo and the kaleidoscope craft.

  • Undergods
    Undergods

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Chino Moya

    Debut film of Chino Moya is a collection of darkly humorous, surrealist tales about ill-fated characters and their tragic misadventures.

  • Roots: A Poem About Love
    Roots: A Poem About Love

    Original title: Juured: Poeem armastusest

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Nora Särak, Dominik Krutsky

    It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.

  • The Gull Theorem
    The Gull Theorem

    Original title: Kajaka teoreem

    2014 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Joosep Matjus

    Gulls are like soul-birds for mankind, living and building their nests throughout the city. A man sees hope for salvation in the bird. Human body turns into an artificial environment and the gull becomes his soul.

  • Aksioom
    Aksioom

    1984 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Toomas Tahvel

  • The Everyday of Beauty
    The Everyday of Beauty

    Title in Estonian: Ilu argipäev

    1965 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin

    Property maintenance and construction activity in various places in Estonia.

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