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Estcoy-8

2022 | Documentary | Director: Erik Tikan

The untold story of the Estonian infantry company Estcoy-8, which suffered the heaviest losses in the history of modern Estonia.

The untold story of the Estonian infantry company Estcoy-8, which suffered the heaviest losses in the history of modern Estonia.
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Tales Of A Toy Horse

Original title in Ukrainian: Казка про Коника

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ulyana Osovska, Denis Strashnyi, Rodion Shub

Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.

An intimate and poetic cinema verite with animated interludes reveals the philosophy of life of an old monk and artist, who for many years keeps his monastic vow to find something good in every day. Combining spiritual life with social activism since 2014, he takes multiple trips to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbas, where his vow is challenged by the war-torn reality.
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Women on the Frontline

Original title: Naised rindejoonel

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

Oksana, Anna, Tatjana and Marina are at war, each with their own motive and destiny. They are women whose lives, among many others, were changed by the civil unrest that began in 2014 on Maidan Square in Kiev. The film follows their battles through several years and seasons and covers both everyday activities as well as perilous situations under gunfire. What motivates women to go to war? What do they believe in and hope for? What is the price they pay for withstanding life on the frontline? This is a documentary about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine ...
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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.

Documentary by Marija Stonytė takes us on the journey of a girl becoming a warrior in the military and in her own life. A few years ago military conscription for men was reintroduced in Lithuania. Simultaneously, there were a number of young women who decided to voluntarily register for military service. We follow 3 of these girls for 9 months as they live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base. Three girls – three totally unique characters, come from very different social backgrounds. One joined the army with the aim of starting a new life, another - to ...
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Kratt

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...

When children are left at Grandma's without smartphones they’re bored to tears. That is until Granny finds them loads to do. She also tells them about a magical creature named KRATT that’ll do whatever its master says. When they stumble upon an instruction on how to build one they don’t hesitate. All they have to do now is to buy a soul from the devil...
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Reich of the Dead

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Julius Kits
New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director:

Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

Kenya is mostly a relatively peaceful land in the African context, but when it comes to elections then the hell is out. Thousands of people were killed in the violent events that hit Kenya after elections in 2008. It is the year of 2017 and once again an election year in Kenya. Most security experts of different politicians and public authorities in Kenya are confident that the 2007 bad scenario will recur and even worse than ever before. The director Ken Saan invites longtime war reporter Ivar Heinmaa to join him, to guide in the war situation and share the tricks ...
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Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
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