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  • All Musicians Are Bastards
    All Musicians Are Bastards

    Original title: Kõik muusikud on kaabakad

    2012 | Full length feature, Students film, Feature film | Director: Heleri Saarik

    The full-length feature is the debut film directed by Heleri Saarik. The film is a visual love-letter to music, an impressionistic drama about the deams of young generations. Besides the bitter love story, the film expresses protesting against the confusion both in society and in the protagonists of the film.

  • Red Mercury
    Red Mercury

    Original title: Punane elavhõbe

    2010 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

    The thriller is an Estonian-Russian co-production directed by Andres Puustusmaa, based on the debut novel by former criminal investigator Andres Anvelt. The film tells a story based on real events about the work of Estonian police in early 1990s. Film valmis Eesti ja Venemaa koostöös.

  • The Wish Tree
    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.

  • Call-girl´s Christmas
    Call-girl´s Christmas

    Original title; Ööliblika jõulud

    1994 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Artur Talvik, Rein Kotov

    Documentary about 19-year-old Kerstin who has come to look for happiness and sell her body in Tallinn, Estonia.

  • Three Baltic Love Stories: Vytautas and Juozas. Lithuanian Autumn 1991
    Three Baltic Love Stories: Vytautas and Juozas. Lithuanian Autumn 1991

    Original title: Balti armastuslood: Vytautas ja Juozas. Leedu sügis 1991

    1992 | Short, Feature film | Director: Peeter Urbla

    Three seasons, three love stories from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the era of great changes in 1991 when the Baltic states freed themselves from the yoke of Soviet Union and regained independence.

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