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  • Blind chance
    Blind chance

    Original title in Estonian: Pime juhus

    2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Carmen Seljamaa

    Tragi-comedy about a cocky young politician and his adventures.

  • That’s How It Is
    That’s How It Is

    Original title: Nii ta on

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Toomla

    The documentary feature takes the audience into the world of men living in rural Estonia, showing us the simple joys and sorrows of their everyday life.

  • Legends of Winding Roads
    Legends of Winding Roads

    Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

    Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

  • 2 Hours to Happiness
    2 Hours to Happiness

    Original title: 2 tundi õnneni

    2022 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Moonika Siimets

    Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.

  • 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.

  • Marju. The Call of the Heart
    Marju. The Call of the Heart

    Original title: Marju. Südame kutse

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

    A portrait film about Marju Länik, one of the best singers in the history of Estonian pop music.

  • Onu Arvo
    Onu Arvo

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

    Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

  • Matz
    Matz

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Eliza Benina

    A film about the young and bright Estonian para swimming star Matz Topkin, who knows how to dream big and cheerfully accept both success and defeat.

  • Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love
    Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

    Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

    A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

  • Vinyl Whisperer
    Vinyl Whisperer

    Original title: Muusika, mida ma veel ei tea

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

    Music, that Shazam doesn’t know and Spotify can’t find.

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