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Since 1912 about 530 fiction films have been done in Estonia. The number of full lenght movies is about 300. In addition, about 90 fiction films have been produced for television, and more than 725 short fiction films have been done by film students.
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2003
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Daniel Elliott
Two men get into a car accident and try to cope with loss, feelings of guilt and remorse.
Rasmus and Aleksander experience several different emotion during one day after having got into a car accident – remorse, loss, guilt and anger - while trying to cope with all of these feelings. The film is one of the six short films produced under the aegis of Tyne Tallinn Digital Film Challenge 2003 film project, directed by young British filmmaker Daniel Elliott.
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2002
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Andri Luup
Feature film debut by director Andri Luup about escaping from boredom of life, routine and emptiness and the journey back to the self and the meaning of existence.
Bus driver Ferdinard is tired of his work and life. The confused man makes one mistake after another at work and finally he stops the bus with passengers on a railway crossing and leaves. While aimlessly wandering around the city, Ferdinand makes up his mind to try out all social models he knows in order to find his balance in life. Policeman Kerstensen, also tired of his job and life, starts to follow Ferdinand. During the existentialist cat-and-mouse game, Ferdinand will finally find the meaning of existence and to his true self.
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2001
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Feature film, Short
| Director:
Olle Mirme
Short film directed by Olle Mirme about two film freaks who try to stage their screenplay in real life.
Positively charged short film about two film freaks who are forced to become geniuses. Despite the fact that the screenplay written by the two filmmakers Ränk and Kilk are rejected everywhere, the men won't even consider giving up. While throwing everything unnecessary overboard - the camera, film, actors and studio – the two start to stage their screenplay directly in real life. However, the co-citizens are unaware of their participation in a legendary film project, and thus a huge confusion is born out of Ränk and Kilk's artistic enterprise. The two realities collide - the one in a film and ...
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2014
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Janno Jürgens
She was not just a hairdresser. He was not just another customer.
She was not just a hairdresser. He was not just another customer.
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1973
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Feature film, Full length feature, Youth
| Director:
Valdur Himbek
The children's film directed by Valdur HImbek is based on the story "Fire in the Darkened City" by Eno Raud, telling about the schoolchildren's fearless games with fire during the German occupation.
Ülo and Olev think the German occupation is humiliating and the soldiers are arrogant. But even among Estonians there are people who cannot be trusted - this can have fatal consequences. Witty schoolboys find out that Mr Velirand, who has moved in the apartment that once belonged to their teacher, is a henchman of Fascists. The boys make up their minds to give people warning about the provocator, even if the rebellion is risky and their opponent superior, compared to the St George's Night Uprising in 1343.
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2018
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Feature film, Full length feature, Thriller, Drama, Supernatural
| Director:
Maria Avdjuško
Life finds a way.
The mystical drama thriller tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength.
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2021
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Feature film, Full length feature, Thriller
| Director:
Peeter Rebane
Firebird is a touching love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War.
Firebird is a touching love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War. Sergey, a troubled young private, is counting the days till his military service ends. His life is turned upside down when a daring fighter pilot, Roman arrives at the base. Driven by curiosity, Sergey and Roman navigate the precarious line between love and friendship as a dangerous love triangle forms between them and Luisa, the secretary to the base Commander. Sergey is forced to face his past as Roman's career is endangered and Luisa struggles to keep her family together. Amid the fears of ...
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2018
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Jaan Toomik
Life passed on from generation to generation can often turn out to be a cruel paradox.
An average morning. A father and a son go fishing. The father isn’t feeling too well but doesn’t show it. He teaches his son everything – how to drive the car, dig out the worms – how to do everything by himself. Everything changes when the boy catches his first fish.
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1990
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| 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.
A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful Russian nurse taking care of him. In order to restore the young man's vitality, self-confidence and virility, the nurse spends a night full of tenderness and love with him. Rita's colleagues start teasing her. Yet, there is someone who considers Rita to be the source for the evil and takes action. Rita accepts her fate but the avenger becomes more brutal every time.
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2012
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Feature film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
Sander Maran
A pedestrian encounters a rooftop shooter.
A pedestrian encounters a rooftop shooter.
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2013
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Veiko Õunpuu
An optimistic anti-western about the possibility to attain the inscrutable and benevolent indifference towards all mundane affairs even here, in the midst of the pointless and sad life of contemporary Europeans.
Fred is a young writer who instead of living a dull everyday life is indulged in daydreaming. He believes that romantic freedom is possible and the writer's status provides greater liberation in life for him. All of a sudden, Fred is not free any more. His girlfriend is pregnant and he has to take the consequences, adjust himself to the society, and give up the idea of romantic freedom. Fred is a free range man whose freedom is being restricted by society. He is asking himselt whether is is possible to live his life the way he won't suffer later ...
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1961
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
Ilja Fogelman, Reet Kasesalu
The lyrical comedy directed by Ilja Fogelman tells the story of an authoritarian head of a collective farm, unable to understand the value of folk culture.
Tõnu, student of agronomy, is a trainee at a flourishing collective farm. He finds out that there are many talented singers there among whom there is Malle with a specially beautiful voice. However, the local community club is closed and the singing ground has been turned into a pasture. Malle's father is the manager of the collective farm and considers singing a waste of time. When the collective farmers hear about Tõnu's conducting skills, they will act against the manager's will. The big song festival is going to be held soon and people want to go there. Preparations of the ...
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2018
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
Mihhail Pogosov
The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.
Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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1985
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Leida Laius, Arvo Iho
The feature film directed by Leida Laius is based on the youth novel "Stepmother" by Silvia Rannamaa. The socially sensitive drama is telling the story about the children growing up in an orphanage and about parents' responsibility for their children's fate.
Mari's mother is dead and her father is a drunkard. Life in an orphanage seems impossible but she has nowhere to go. She must get used to live without a home full of warmth and love, together with rough fellow orphans. Fortunately, there is Tauri who behaves well but for some reason other children don't favor him. Robi is a guy who likes to break the rules, thus being popular among the kids; Mari thinks that Robi should be hated instead. Mari finds it almost intolerable to learn the lesson how to see other people around her and how to ...
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2007
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Peeter Simm
The drama directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the life of Georg Ots - one of the most well-known Estonian opera singers of all times. The screenplay by Mati Põldre and Aleksandr Borodyanski is based on the memoirs of Asta Ots.
The life of Georg Ots (1920-1975), the most well-known Estonian opera singer, was full of changes and difficulties. He started with the career of an engineer; later during the times of war he found himself as a musician in Yaroslavl. Georg Ots's extraordinary talent and dedication made him a nationwide star in the whole Soviet Union; however, there are two sides of every coin. It is a very personal story about love and marriage, celebrity and jealousy, self-realization and self-destruction.
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1998
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Sulev Keedus
The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.
Story about the silent Boy who is sent for medical treatment to Jakub, a former colonial missionary living on an island that is also a military training area. Jakub is the only civilian there. He has to make observations during the bombing at night and phone the headquarters about the results. The observation spot is located in the tower of a church in ruins where Jakub makes silage. The missionary - an old horse - tramples silage in the church tower. There are beehives inside of the church. Jakub plays the organ, singing chorals and the Boy pumps the organ ...
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2015
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Feature film, Full length feature, Youth
| Director:
Urmas Eero Liiv
Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.
Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor), who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. ...
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1969
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Veljo Käsper
The personal drama directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the novel series "The Windy Shore" part III by Aadu Hint where the events take part during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The basic principles of both human lives and society are put to the test.
Joonas and Tiidrik are two men from the island of Saaremaa who recklessly escape from the German prison during the First World War. Yet, there are no peaceful times in their home country. Joonas has hard times when coming back home - his efforts to improve the living conditions of his family will fail. It is namely the successful people who betray Joonas so that he has to face a real gladiator fight in order to understand the important things in life.
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1930
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Feature film, Short, Musical films, dance
| Director:
Boris Jaanikosk
Song and sound film by Konstantin Märska and Boris Jaanikose about the expatriate Estonians' jolly visit to their homeland.
The first Estonian film with the recorded sound, advertised as a song-sound film. The film is about the visit of the expatriate Estonian man and his daughter to their homeland. The man has become well-off in USA, the land of dry law. When they arrive at Estonia and search for exciting activities, they'll find the harbour tavern called The Gold Spider. Then the story will unravel with singing, instrument play and uplifting alcoholic drinks. It was prohibited to show the film to the young audiences because of the tavern scenes as well as alcohol and tobacco advertising in the film.
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2006
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Feature film, Full length feature, Melodrama
| Director:
Jüri Sillart
The drama directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the play "The moment of truth" by Hans Luik, telling about the generation of people whose
Jüri Sillarti draama Hans Luige näidendi „Tõe hetk“ ainetel inimestest, kelle noorus lõpeb 2000ndate Eestis võitjate või kaotajatena.
The reunion of a former successul pop group will take a horrible turn when an uninvited guest appears among the rich and the beautiful, bringing messages about the return of Sodom and Gomorrah. This makes everyone recall things that no one wants to remember.
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2001
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Crime
| Director:
Peeter Simm
The crime comedy directed by Peeter Simm is based on the story "Arnold" by Toomas Raudam. It is an adventurous tale about friendship, humanity and discovering love.
Professional pickpocket Margita from Riga fails in stealing a car and hides out in an Estonian small town. She wants to leave soon but her accomplice in Riga won't pick up the phone. She meets three Estonian men in the small town, all of them attracting attention and sympathy in Margita despite of their odd manners. To crown it all, an eight-year old Pavo is entrusted to Margita. She starts to feel that this place could be her new home, but then crime news appear in local newspapers.
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2020
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Drama
| 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.
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. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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2021
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Feature film, Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance
| 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.
At the center of the short film we find an ordinary family struggling with generational differences about what it means to love and live a full life. The main character Virve (Tiina Mälberg), a middle-aged perfectionist, has gone to great lengths to make sure her mother’s (Ines Aru) jubilee would be a perfectly traditional family celebration. Her plans are interrupted by her niece Silvia (Grete Konksi) who arrives to the party with her same-sex partner Mary (Jaanika Arum).
Grandma and grandpa are clueless and welcome Mary to the table because they remember her as a childhood friend of their granddaughter.
The ...
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2011
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Katrin Laur
The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.
Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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2017
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
Andres Puustusmaa
You have to be wise to see the difference.
The story of two old folks, who have spent the most time of their
lives behind prison walls. Now seventy years old men have been granted an amnesty.
Both men have a passionate desire to change their lives in according to a certain plans. Time is one of the main characters in this story. The time that passes from one point to another and how it changes and influences human spirit and thoughts.
Old prison friends Markus and Eduard are not murders and do not have blood on their hands, from young age they have revolved in circles around thieves and other rouges, ...
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2015
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Leeni Linna
Short film directed by Leeni Linna about the struggles of a pilot who has lost one eye in Afghanistan war.
In the war in Afghanistan, the helicopter pilot Raul (34) loses sight in one eye and is stripped of his wings. The depressed Raul infuriates his wife and she moves away from him with their child. Raul feels like a useless cripple and decides to end his life. He builds a flying machine from helium balloons and decides to take the last flight of his life in it.
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1997
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Andres Puustusmaa
Short film by Andres Puustusmaa about a blind girl, her father, a strange motorcyclist and human relationships.
Stranger is looking for gas for his motorbike and finds himself in a remote forest farm where neurotic Father lives with his blind Daughter. The Stranger hears from Daughter that Father once got into an accident when being drunk, that resulted in killing of mother and made Daughter blind. Burdened with the feelings of guilt, Father sees himself in Stranger who has deserved a punishment.
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1929
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Feature film, Short, Comedy
| Director:
John Loop, Konstantin Märska
Burlesque directed by Konstantin Märska and John Loop, based on the popular funny story "Handicapped brides" written by Eduart Vilde. The story is about getting rid of the unwanted suitors.
The owner of Lipuvere farm wants his daugthers Leena and Minna to marry well off men but the young women's hearts are fond of other young men, so they have to figure out something witty.
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1999
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Feature film, Short, Science fiction
| Director:
Rainer Sarnet
Short film directed by Rainer Sarnet bringing the viewer to the world through the looking-glass, or behind the mirror, where our copies live. They reflect us back, at the right time, in the right place.
The mirror image of a variety show artist falls in love with his wife. While refusing to obey the strict order, he breaks through the mirror to the human world. What's the plan when the reflection becomes fatally dangerous? When the real life and the world behind mirror mingle, it will be confusing to understand who is "real" and who is "the other". The other self of a person can be tempting and confusing, it can become angry, lie or burst out uncomfortable truth. Nobody is protected from the other self.
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