BERLINALE - Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)

    Matches: 23
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      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.

      • Festival Year: 2025
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Berlinale Classics
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
      • Leida Laius, Arvo Iho
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      A sad day in Eva’s life...

      • Festival Year: 2023
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Berlinale Shorts 2023
      • Animated film, Cartoon, Drama
      • Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak
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      • Festival Year: 2023
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Animated film, Cartoon, , Family
      • Enzo d'Alo
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      Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

      • Festival Year: 2019
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Film market screenings
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Adventure, Family
      • Anu Aun
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      Cowardice is the greatest sin on earth.

      • Festival Year: 2017
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Berlinale Special
      • Documentary
      • Askold Kurov
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      Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

      • Festival Year: 2016
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Co-Production Market - Special Mention (from the Eurimages Jury)
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Family
      • Moonika Siimets
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      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.

      • Festival Year: 2014
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Section: Forum
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
      • Veiko Õunpuu
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      Immigration, Love and Music! Lisa Limone is first S3D animated opera in stop-motion. Topics of immigration, love and money are handeled theatrically in musical sauce.

      • Festival Year: 2013
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Animated film, Puppet, Adventure
      • Mait Laas
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      • Festival Year: 2012
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Generation
      • Animated film, Cartoon, , Family
      • Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits
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      The adventurous drama directed by Andres Puustusmaa is based on true events. Both Estonian and Russian actors are involved, including Marina Aleksandrova, Nikolai Fomenko and Kirill Käro, a rising film star with Estonian roots.

      • Festival Year: 2011
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Film Market Screening
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Thriller, Drama
      • Andres Puustusmaa
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      • Festival Year: 2007
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Generation KPlus
      • Animated film, Cartoon, , Family
      • Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits
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      Freedom is looking for a form to manifest itself. Allegoric story of Architect-Matchstickman – who helps to give the life for the new Generation...

      • Festival Year: 2005
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: As one part of the film cassette Lost and Found
      • Animated film, Puppet
      • Mait Laas
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      The debut film by director Elmo Nüganen is based on the novel "Names in Marble" by Albert Kivikas. The film is a patriotic war drama telling the story of schoolboys in the Estonian War of Independence and of the days and nights of these young volunteer fighters. The film is full of dangers, challenges, pain and exaltation, entwined by a beautiful story of young love.

      • Festival Year: 2003
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Film Market screening
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Epic, historical, Drama, War
      • Elmo Nüganen
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      The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.

      • Festival Year: 2002
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
      • Arvo Iho
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      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.

      • Festival Year: 2002
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Won the "Panorama" Programme and Manfred Salzberg Award
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Crime
      • Peeter Simm
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      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.

      • Festival Year: 1993
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Kinderfilmfest/14 Plus
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Youth, Drama, Family
      • Aare Tilk
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      • Festival Year: 1993
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • TV feature film, TV feature, Melodrama, Biographical
      • Mati-Jüri Põldre
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      The first full-length feature film directed by Roman Baskin is an allegorical drama about power, compromises and conformation. The film was one of the six best European debut feature films in 1992.

      • Festival Year: 1992
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
      • Roman Baskin
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      • Festival Year: 1988
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Programme: Panorama
      • Documentary
      • Andres Sööt
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      Documentary directed by Mark Soosaar about the island of Kihnu, its residents and the social problems of the local society.

      • Festival Year: 1988
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Panorama
      • Documentary
      • Mark Soosaar
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      The filmmaker meets children who have been abandoned or placed in an institution, and tries to find out their experiences and their dreams. A humanistic film carried by superb cinematography.

      • Festival Year: 1988
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Panorama
      • Documentary, Problem oriented
      • Peeter Simm
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      This documentary is a critical analysis of the severe negative consequences of the centrally planned agricultural policy. A policy which imposes a new technology without taking into account the specific needs and conditions of the farming-land in Estonia.

      • Festival Year: 1988
      • Participation/Award: Participation
      • Description: Panorama
      • Documentary, Problem oriented
      • Enn Säde, Jüri Müür
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      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.

      • Festival Year: 1987
      • Participation/Award: Award
      • Description: Berlinale UNICEF Prize
      • Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
      • Leida Laius, Arvo Iho

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