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  • Stairway to Heaven
    Stairway to Heaven

    Original title: Taevatrepp

    2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

    A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.

  • 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.

  • Lumi ja Leenu
    Lumi ja Leenu

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

    A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

  • Estonian Funeral
    Estonian Funeral

    Original title: Eesti matus

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

    Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

  • The Gardener Of Tension Fields
    The Gardener Of Tension Fields

    Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

    Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

  • Inheritance
    Inheritance

    Original title in Estonian: "Pärandus"

    2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Janeli Pelska

    A tale of family and a shared responsibility, which sparks conflict among relatives.

  • The Swan
    The Swan

    Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

    Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

  • Close Relations
    Close Relations

    Original title (in Russian): Rodnye

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Manski

    Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

  • The Days That Confused
    The Days That Confused

    Original title (in Estonian): Päevad, mis ajasid segadusse

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Triin Ruumet

    The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

  • Ambassador of Setomaa
    Ambassador of Setomaa

    2012 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

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