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  • The Sleeping Beast
    The Sleeping Beast

    Original title: Tagurpidi torn

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

  • Burning porcelain
    Burning porcelain

    Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

    2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

    The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

  • Till We Meet Again
    Till We Meet Again

    Original title: Taaskohtumine

    2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

    This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

  • Raggie
    Raggie

    Original title: Sipsik

    2020 | Animation, Other types of animation, | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Karsten Kiilerich

    Raggie is a story of a very special doll, of a sister and brother, and of friendship that can conquer the greatest of tribulations.

  • A Year Full of Drama
    A Year Full of Drama

    Original title: Aasta täis draamat

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

    A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

  • The Overcoat
    The Overcoat

    Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

    2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

    A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

  • Toys and Totems
    Toys and Totems

    Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

    2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

    We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible. 
Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

  • 1944
    1944

    Original title: 1944

    2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

  • Living Images
    Living Images

    Original title: Elavad pildid

    2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hardi Volmer

    The historical drama directed by Hardi Volmer is a love story combining the elements of epopee and comedy, the grotesque of early silent film and the melodrama of the golden era of cinema.

  • Heritage Songs from Kihnu Island
    Heritage Songs from Kihnu Island

    Original title: Laulud mere tagant

    2003 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Veiko Taluste

    Documentary about folk singer Virve Järsumägi, also known as Virve of Kihnu, and about the passing of folklore heritage from one generation to another.

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