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The Wish Tree

Original title: Soovide puu

2008 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Liina Paakspuu

The first full-length feature film directed by Liina Paakspuu gives a cartoon-like description of the way the dreams and reality of common people clash. In order to escape this, one has to have confidence in themselves and some luck.

Liina comes to the city while hoping to find opportunities to start her own life there. To work as a cashier in the supermarket is definitely not Liina's dream job but she won't fit for those her relative Ave can offer her. Liina meets more and less strange people at her work and in the dormitory - and all of them have got wishes. Saara, Liina's neighbour, says that somewhere there is a tree of wishes - but how to recognize it among all other trees? And how can one realize what is the thing they wish the most? Liina ...
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Autumn Ball

Original title: Sügisball

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

The drama directed by Veiko Õunpuu is based on the novel "Autumn Ball" by Mati Unt, telling the story about the residents of a dormitory suburb who are more or less connected to each other. All of them suffer from loneliness and complicated relationships. This is Õunpuu's first full-length feature film that has received several acknowledged festival awards and was chosen the best Estonian film of the last 20 years.

According to the director of the film, Veiko Õunpuu, "Autumn Ball" tells about seclusion, lack of contact and inability to reach other people. At the same time, there is humour and absurd in the film; it is possible that some people among the audience can have a really good laugh. When speaking about the genre of the film, it can be said that "Autumn Ball" is a pitch-black comedy about solitude, despair and hopelessness.
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Golden Beach

Original title: Kuldrannake

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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Set Point

We Will Not Sleep Tonight

2004 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilmar Taska

The debut film directed by Ilmar Taska is a criminal drama about people who are about to lose themselves for luxurious life. Starring supermodel Carmen Kass and Finnish film star Peter Franzen.

The financially secured marriage of Harri and Evelin is about to fall apart. One summer night, Evelin happens to witness a murder when she is strolling around the city with her friends Älis and Kristofer. Harri who investigates the crime tries to calm them down. Suddenly, Evelin and her friends discover that they are being chased by the criminals. Harri seems to be involved with illegal activities so no one can be sure that the following night won't be doomed.
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St. Mercedes' Day

Original title: Püha Mercedese päev

2003 | Short, Feature film | Director: Hendrik Toompere jr

Short feature film by Hendrik Toompere jr about idiotic love for cars, human stupidity and divine intervention.

David is a businessman with the suspicious past. He is an arrogant loser who is used to keep situations under his control. He loves his car, Mercedes, more than his wife. His love for car aquires religious measurements and becomes so absurd that there will be divine intervention. A miracle is born and David's wife will get herself a faithful and reliable partner – a car.
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Suite for Two

Original title: Sviit kahele

2003 | Short, Feature film | Director: Marko Raat

Short film by Marko Raat about the power games between two women in a hotel suite.

A maid comes to clean a hotel room and becomes enchanted by the possessions and life of its resident. She visualizes herself to be in the world of that unknown woman while putting on an elegant evening gown and becoming that other lady in order to enjoy the moment of having the taste of upper class life. When the resident returns her room, she finds a sleeping young woman in her bathroom. Things take a cruel turn where the hotel maid plays the part of Cinderella and the game rules will be set by the middle-aged lady disappointed in life.
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The Redemption

Original title: Lunastus

2000 | Short, Feature film | Director: Mare Raidma

Costume and theatre artist Mare Raidma's director's debut. A short film about the transferral of the teenager girl's childhood traumas to adulthood.

Sanna has been put to the girl's boarding school where she suffers because of her mother committed to prison because of manslaughter. An intrigue arises in the dormitory, a relationship triangle between introvert Sanna, her practical roommate Anni and shy young man Toni who works in a laundry store. Toni grows very fond of Sanna. Sanna has difficulties in coping with the real world because of her fears that emerge from the memory images from her childhood. The budding sexuality of the teenage boy makes Sanna confused and she is dragged into the whirlwind of a relationship. While following her ...
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Too Tired to Hate

Original title: Ma olen väsinud vihkamast

1995 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Hannes Lintrop, Renita Lintrop

The first full-length feature film directed by Hannes and Renita Lintrop is a crime thriller telling the story of young people being in tight corners. The film has been awarded numerous festival prizes.

Siim is a seventeen-year-old boy who wants to get his girlfriend a christmas present but his mother will guzzle away his money for getting drunk. Siim who has become tough while growing up in the streets now decides to fight against other fellows in the street and this will lead him to prison. Siim has made up his mind that he will resist the depths of unjustice and violence; however, he cannot first realize the deceitful and cruel situation he is in.
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Jüri Rumm

Original title: Jüri Rumm

1994 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaan Kolberg

The romantic adventure film directed by Jaan Kolberg tells the story about a 19th century noble knight whose fearlessness and elusiveness have made him a national hero.

Jüri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the Russian czar, barfights or disobedience to his master's orders. Mari, a gentle peasant girl, loves Jüri despite the fact that he is very popular among young women. Evelin is a quick-tempered baron's daughter who is used to get everything she wants, including a peasant boyfriend who considers himself a free man. Yet, the free man becomes an outlaw. Where will the runaway's love lead him?
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Come Back, Lumumba

Original title: Tule tagasi, Lumumba

1992 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Aare Tilk

The family film directed by Aare Tilk is based on the story "A Tale About Rein" by Toomas Raudam. The film tells about the lost and the found, friendship, caring for each other, and the events of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The culture centre of a small Estonian town is the place where the local people gather - where schoolchildren come to see popular films of 1960 previewed by the newsreels imbued with Soviet ideology to, and where young people meet in cinema and at dancing nights and fall in love. Aurora, the new head of the culture centre, and Lumumba change the lives of Rein and his father who are crushed with grief. Together with their friend Elsa, the boys decide to introduce Rein's father to Aurora in order to make them feel less lonely. It will turn out that ...
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