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  • Vertical Money: The Future
    Vertical Money: The Future

    Original title: Vara küps: Tulevik

    2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented, TV Serial | Director: Martti Helde

    The series open the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The series also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war.

  • Soulpipe
    Soulpipe

    Original title: Hingetoru

    2019 | Students film, Animation | Director: Jelizaveta Mušnikova, Mari-Leen Üksküla-Eomois, Meeri-Ann Ostrov, Anna Semjonova

    A futuristic tale about the material world tells a story of a clerk who is responsible for putting objects coming from a pipe onto a shelf.

  • Charm of Sacred Groves
    Charm of Sacred Groves

    Original title: Hiite lummus

    2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

    Documentary by Rein Maran about oak groves in Estonia - local holy places of nature and cultural heritage.

  • Clayhouse
    Clayhouse

    Original title: Savikodu

    2007 | Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

  • Springtime Wonderband
    Springtime Wonderband

    Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

    2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

    A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.

  • Endla
    Endla

    1985 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heikki Aasaru

  • Everyone's got his own job
    Everyone's got his own job

    Original title: Igal oma leib

    1983 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Kuzmin

    Documentary depicts a working day of the crew of a fishery protection ship "Saare" in the Baltic Sea.

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