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Whatever, Aleksander!

Original title: Misiganes, Aleksander!

2007 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Maiju Ingman

The road film for young audiences is the graduation thesis by Maiju Ingman (Tallinn University), telling the story of Aleksander, a young man graduating from the high school, of his weltschmerz and his self-discovery.

Aleksander is a talented young man who has no idea what to do with his life after graduating from the high school. Choosing a career, a family, a university degree, or joining the army seem out of question. It is like he had no interest in anything. Unfortunately, neither Aleksander's parents nor his friends can give him advice. For years, Aleksander has observed the way other people live their lives. This has led him to an understanding that he does not want to become one of them. He wants a different life. Only that he does not know what kind ...
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Stranger than kindness

2006 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ian Cottage
Dear Mister Moon

Original title: Kallis Härra Q

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rao Heidmets

The debut feature film directed by Rao Heidmets is based on the children's story "Dear Mister Moon" by Aino Pervik and tells about children's yearning for genuine family relations.

When two stepsisters - 13-year-old blonde Sigrid and 7-year-old dark-complexioned Saara - meet each other for the first time, it will turn out that their grandmother has been taken to a retirement home. The girls make up their minds to steal grandma from the home and hide her in an attic-room where they could be all together. Everything goes unexpectedly well until drunkards, hoodlums and blackmailers interfere and the girls have to know exactly what they are doing in order to escape the gang.
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Letters from the East

Original title: Kirjad idast

1995 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Andrew Grieve

The film directed by Andrew Grieve tells about families that have been broken during the war and about the reunion of family members in the independent republic of Estonia.

Anna travels from England back to her native country Estonia in order to find her mother whom she has lost during the war. While getting in the middle of the events of restoration of Estonian's independence, Anna meets people full of yearning for freedom. She will discover that despite of having been abroad for a long time she is still having a deep connection to her native land.
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The Firewater

Original title: Tulivesi

1994 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Hardi Volmer

The adventure film directed by Hardi Volmer tells about the alcohol smuggling between Estonia and Finland in 1920s. The story is made contemporary through depicting the corrupted authorities.

When Eerik and his companions go to another night sea trip, they are aware of the danger to get caught by the border guard. Spirit smuggling to Finland during the era of the Dry Law pays off so the risk has to be taken. After all, he needs a house to live in with Hilda, and a boat in order to work at the sea. And even if something goes wrong, an old man Nymann will help out with his money. Yet, Aleks, the new chief at the borderguard office, has different views. Having fought at the Estonian War ...
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Victoria (A Story of a Love Affair), Part 1

Original title: Victoria (Ühe armastuse lugu) I jagu

1994 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jüri Sillart

The lyrical love story directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the novel "Victoria" (1898) by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The film tells the story about different adventures in the lives of young people being in love, brought into the 1930s in Estonia.

The love story with nostalgic atmosphere begins with the innocent affection of childhood between Johannes, son of a miller, and Victoria, daughter of a well-off landowner. Their affection grows into a burning flame of love that will be extinguished by the social status of the wealthy and bourgeois false morality.
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Teardrop of Evil

Original title: Saatana pisar

1993 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Marek Piestrak

The feature film is an Estonian-Polish co-production directed by Polish filmmaker Marek Piestrak. It tells about the struggle against an evil conspiracy in Estonia in August 1939.

In 1939, once again Preimann, a Baltic German baron, and Leppikson, a native Estonian, confront each other in Estonia. In this game evil forces arise - Soviet counterintelligence, the diplomacy of the Fascist Germany, involuntary dreams and black magic, satanists and traitors. The evil forces are opposed by the courage and love between Polish writer Joanna and Estonian detective Gunnar. Will they succeed in preventing a magic ritual where the Satan itself is being invited? Will this be enough in order to save Europe from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
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The Prompter

Original title: Suflöör

1993 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre.

You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies and jesters - and don't expect to hear a symphony but a single delicate sound of a flute.
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Everyone gets his own

Original title: Igaühele oma

1990 | Short, Feature film | Director: Hardi Volmer

Grotesque allegorical film directed by Hardi Volmer that tells about a little man, his fears and stagnation in the world.

Grotesque allegory about a little man who is afraid of everything new and unknown. This prevents him to live his life fully. Despite having dreams and yearning for being just like other people, the man cannot break through the wall of manic doubts and suspicion surrounding him. While being unable to adjust to the world outside, the man creates his own, illusory world.
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The Lost Road

Original title: See kadunud tee

1990 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jaan Kolberg

The symbolistic-allegorical drama directed by Jaan Kolberg is based on the novel "The Good Harbour" by August Mälk (published in 1942) and other works of the same writer. The events of the film have been adjusted to the contemporary times.

Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to know the daily life in the fisherman's village, falls in love for the first time, and realizes the complexity of the relationships between those of older generation. While leaving for a stormy sea of life from the village he has still some hope in order to come back to his love and his home port.
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