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  • Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud
    Metsik lõuna: Ellujäämise kunstnikud

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

  • The Story of Estonian Skateboarding
    The Story of Estonian Skateboarding

    Original title: Eesti rula lugu

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus, Ivar Murd

    The story of Estoniaäs skateboarding scene spanning five decades, from the 1980s and tables made with vclay wheels in Võru to today's youth, for whom the whole world is open.

  • Ab Absurdo
    Ab Absurdo

    2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

    The tragicomedy takes a look at the inner world of two people who are looking for relief and a sense of existence.

  • Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!
    Jumalaga, rock'n'roll!

    2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer, Kiur Aarma

  • Legends of Winding Roads
    Legends of Winding Roads

    Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

    Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

  • Kadunud isa
    Kadunud isa

    2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško

  • Alppila’s Pharmacy - Who owns those muscles?
    Alppila’s Pharmacy - Who owns those muscles?

    Original title in Finnish: Alppilan Apteekki - Kenen on noi Lihakset?

    2021 | Students film, Music video | Director: Ville Niemi

    Gym story about a nerdy guy.

  • Ice Cream Man
    Ice Cream Man

    2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Sten Toom

    A young woman with a tragic past retells the story of a psychopathic ice-cream man murdering the inhabitants of a joyful suburb through her rose-colored glasses.

  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Leonhard Lapin. Process
    Leonhard Lapin. Process

    Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

    This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

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