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  • Backstage Bardo
    Backstage Bardo

    2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maros Pulscak

    Short Documentary that follows morgue workers’ daily life.

  • Poop, Spring and the Others: Meatballs and Dumplings
    Poop, Spring and the Others: Meatballs and Dumplings

    Original title: Frikadellid ja pelmeenid

    2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Heiki Ernits, Meelis Arulepp

    The parable about human relations, differences and misunderstandings.

  • Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life
    Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life

    Original title: Pilt, mis öösel liigutas

    2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

    It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside!

  • Crush
    Crush

    2022 | Amateur films, Movie | Director: Andres Kostiv, Martin Kirsipuu

  • Outside Disability
    Outside Disability

    2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hendra Raud

    There’s a divide present between able bodied and physically disabled people. Their ability to work, love, study, and live is too often defined simply by their condition. With our project, we want to convey our audience the reality of this community’s experience outside of their disability.

  • The Sleeping Beast
    The Sleeping Beast

    Original title: Tagurpidi torn

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

  • Estonian Funeral
    Estonian Funeral

    Original title: Eesti matus

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

    Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

  • Grandma, meet Mary
    Grandma, meet Mary

    Original title: Vanaema, saa tuttavaks

    2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaire Russ

    The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80 birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

  • 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.

  • Border Youth
    Border Youth

    Original title: Noored piiril

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

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