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  • Perplexion
    Perplexion

    Original title: Meelepett

    2023 | Other categories | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

    1 minute short follows a driver to the car wash, where an ordinary occurrence becomes quite a mind-boggling experience.

  • Lydia
    Lydia

    2022 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Hermes Brambat, Tarvo Mölder

    The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula.

  • Dawn of War
    Dawn of War

    Original title: O2

    2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Margus Paju

    A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

  • Gentle Warriors
    Gentle Warriors

    Original title (in Lithuanan): Švelnūs kariai

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Marija Stonytė

    A girl becomes a warrior in the military- and her own life.

  • The Overcoat
    The Overcoat

    Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

    2017 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

    A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

  • ESTO - 1984. Opening and Procession
    ESTO - 1984. Opening and Procession

    Title in Estonian: ESTO - 1984. Avamine, rongkäik

    1984 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

    4th International Estonian Days take place in Canada on July 8-15, 1984.

  • Metsakombinaadist Jaapanisse
    Metsakombinaadist Jaapanisse

    1981 | Commissioned, Other categories, Documentary | Director: Toivo Kuzmin

  • World Freedom Day
    World Freedom Day

    TItle in Estonian: Maailma vabaduse päev

    1981 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

    World Freedom Day is celebrated in Taiwan at the end of January.

  • Noored liiklusinsppektorid
    Noored liiklusinsppektorid

    1979 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Helle Murdmaa

  • Uus koolivorm
    Uus koolivorm

    1978 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Toivo Elme

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