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  • Blue
    Blue

    Original title: Sinine

    2020 | Short, Feature film | Director: Tõnis Pill

    When two strangers’ paths cross after a car accident, the woman hijacks the situation and gets into the man’s car, demanding that he take her away from the scene. As the man tries to find a way out of the situation, fragments from the woman’s past start painting a picture of the tragic events that happened to her.

  • Cutting Through
    Cutting Through

    Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

    2016 | TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials, Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

    The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

  • Ceramic artist Leo Rohlin
    Ceramic artist Leo Rohlin

    Original title: Keraamik Leo Rohlin

    2010 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Igor Ruus

    Portrait documentary by Igor Ruus about Estonian ceramic artist and art teacher Leo Rohlin.

  • Freedom Starts from Within
    Freedom Starts from Within

    Original title: Vabadus algab seest. Kai-Mai Olbri autoportree

    2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kai-Mai Olbri

    This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.

  • Heart of the Bear
    Heart of the Bear

    Original title: Karu süda

    2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

    The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.

  • Lenin - Man and Mountain
    Lenin - Man and Mountain

    Original title: Lenin - inimene ja mägi

    2001 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

    Documentary by Riho Västrik about young alpinists who climb the Lenin Mountain (7134m) in Kyrgystan.

  • Guilt
    Guilt

    Original title: Süü

    1997 | Short, Feature film | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

    Short film by Andres Puustusmaa about a blind girl, her father, a strange motorcyclist and human relationships.

  • Tuulealused II film
    Tuulealused II film

    1996 | Nature, Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Enn Säde

  • Valguse ja varju piiril
    Valguse ja varju piiril

    1990 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Elme

  • Wanderers
    Wanderers

    Title in Estonian: Kondajad

    1990 | Documentary | Director: Tõnis Lepik

    Episodes of mountaineering through the protagonist's emotions and experience.

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