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  • Nightingale
    Nightingale

    Original title: Ööbik

    2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

    Russian guard Aleksei risks his life, to save an Estonian girl who the KGB is planning to capture for singing outside the prison where he works.

  • Big Swamp
    Big Swamp

    Original title

    2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

    Vello followed an ancient call and settled on a swamp island, his neighbors became beavers, eagles and countless other species who have found a safe habitat in this cradle of nature.

  • Kohad, mis kardavad maailma
    Kohad, mis kardavad maailma

    2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Marek Vahula

  • Raudvara. Anu Raud
    Raudvara. Anu Raud

    2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Erle Veber

  • Colours of the Islands
    Colours of the Islands

    Original title: Saarte värvid

    2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madli Lääne

  • For Women Only
    For Women Only

    Original title: Jahis ainult naised

    2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kullar Viimne

    Documentary about Estonian hunters and about a special type of hunting - female hunt.

  • Autumn Palette
    Autumn Palette

    The original title in Estonian: Sügise palett

    2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Tatjana Borissova

    Short film is about the complicated relationship between two women who live in an old people's home in one room.

  • Elisabeth von Ungern-Sternmeer
    Elisabeth von Ungern-Sternmeer

    2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Vallo Toomla

  • Fly Mill
    Fly Mill

    Original title: Kärbeste veski

    2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

    A miller lives in a watermill, baking bread every day and raising ducklings he is hoping to set free one day. But in the field next to his home, hunters come to shoot birds.

  • Dear Friend, You Have My Respect
    Dear Friend, You Have My Respect

    Original title: Kallis Sõber, Sind Austan

    2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Ove Musting

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