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  • Tales Of A Toy Horse
    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.

  • Blue
    Blue

    Original title: Sinine

    2020 | Feature film, Short | 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.

  • Roots: My Flesh And Blood
    Roots: My Flesh And Blood

    Original title: Juured: Mu liha ja veri

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

    This is a story about love and loss. About my flesh and blood.

  • Roots: Waiting For A Miracle
    Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

    Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

    The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

  • Take It or Leave It
    Take It or Leave It

    Original title: Võta või jäta

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

  • Medic
    Medic

    Original title: Meedik

    2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Janno Jürgens

    Game becomes life. Architecture student Roomet is sent to paramedic training while serving compulsory military service. How to act, when suddenly you are now longer studying, but dealing with real life and death?

  • Dr Kloun
    Dr Kloun

    Original title: Doktor Kloun

    2008 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Kristel Leesmend

    This is the story about Dr Clown who reached the patients of Estonian children's hospitals.

  • The Phenomenon of Eha
    The Phenomenon of Eha

    Title in Estonian: Eha fenomen

    1999 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

    A story about a very brave and positive woman fighting cancer.

  • Sister of Mercy
    Sister of Mercy

    Original title: Ainult hulludele ehk halastajaõde

    1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

    Feature film by Arvo Iho tells the story of a nurse working at the department of traumatology. She helps a young man who has lost self-confidence and emotional balance and needs help in order to rediscover his virility. The nurse's behaviour will be disapproved by other people.

  • Surgery
    Surgery

    Original title: Lõikus

    1984 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peep Puks

    Documentary by Peep Puks about Toomas Sulling, a reknowned heart surgeon, and his operating team.

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