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  • The most beautiful smile in the world
    The most beautiful smile in the world

    2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Sophia Albrecht

    Short film about Viktor, a boy who is on the verge of death in a train wagon and finds a new will to live through his young love for a strange girl.

  • 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.

  • On The Water
    On The Water

    Original title: Vee peal

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

    The film talks about boyhood, friendship, first love, loss of loved ones, self-discovery, and coming of age. Despite the brutality and tragedy, it is a warm and humorous story of caring, humanity, and love.

  • Vseviov
    Vseviov

    2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Elen Lotman

    It's David Vseviov's birthday - a day that becomes a journey through stories of time

  • Inga Can Hear
    Inga Can Hear

    Original title in Latvian: Inga dzird

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspars Goba

    A girl trapped between two worlds.

  • Taarka
    Taarka

    2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ain Mäeots

    The drama directed by Ain Mäeots is based on the play "Taarka" by Kauksi Ülle and tells the story of the Mother of Song - Hilana Taarka - who was despised as a woman and worshipped as a singer.

  • The Redemption
    The Redemption

    Original title: Lunastus

    2000 | Feature film, Short | 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.

  • The Lost Road
    The Lost Road

    Original title: See kadunud tee

    1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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.

  • Daisy Petal Game: Tattoo
    Daisy Petal Game: Tattoo

    based on the short novel "Gipsies" by Kalju Saaber

    1977 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

    Short film directed by Peeter Simm based on the short story "Gypsies" by Kalju Saaber. Artistic director of the film Andrei Tarkovsky.

  • Minu naine sai vanaemaks
    Minu naine sai vanaemaks

    1976 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Virve Aruoja

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