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  • Chasing Ponies
    Chasing Ponies

    Original title: Ameerika suvi

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

    This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.

  • Heading To My Wedding
    Heading To My Wedding

    Original title in Estonian: "Peata pulmad"

    2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Sandra Zaneva

  • Hitting the Hay
    Hitting the Hay

    2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaakko Rautava

    Jaakko Rautava short film about a man who suffers from insomnia.

  • The Process
    The Process

    Original title in Estonian: Protsess

    2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Vallo Toomla

    Message: Assigned unique roles in life, individuals must search deep within the apparent absurdity of existence to achieve spiritual self-realisation.

  • A Dream
    A Dream

    2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Helen Takkin

  • The Great Magician
    The Great Magician

    2006 | Feature film, Short | Director: Elisabet Gustafsson

    The short film, co-produced by Estonia, Sweden and France, is an absurd and tragicomical fairytale about the unhappy life of an unknown and poor magician.

  • Paradise for Old Men
    Paradise for Old Men

    Original title: Vanameeste paradiis

    2005 | Short, Feature film | Director: Ove Musting

    The short film tells a story about two old men, city officials, who take action in fighting against illegal fishing. This will change their life forever.

  • Time Out
    Time Out

    Original title: Aeg maha

    1984 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn

  • Daily life of Anna Aaver
    Daily life of Anna Aaver

    Original title: Anna Aaveri argipäev

    1981 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Semjon Školnikov

    Documentary directed by Semyon Shkolnikov about Anna Aaver, an hard-working milkwoman of Energia collective farm in Rakvere district, Soviet Estonia, who has been selected as a delegate for the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

  • Vacuum Cleaner
    Vacuum Cleaner

    Original title: Tolmuimeja

    1978 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik

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