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Since 1912 about 530 fiction films have been done in Estonia. The number of full lenght movies is about 300. In addition, about 90 fiction films have been produced for television, and more than 725 short fiction films have been done by film students.
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2003
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Esa Illi
The first full-length feature film directed by Finnish filmmaker Esa Illi tells about love and death, the feeling of guilt and salvation. The majority of the Finnish-Estonian co-production has been filmed in Pärnu, Estonia.
Young Finnish man Joni decides to move to Pärnu with his Estonian girlfriend Rimma. Joni's brother, photographer Sami who is 15 years older, is so busy working that he is about to lose his girlfriend Sanna. Sami is told by Joni's doctor that Joni should be quickly found. Sami has the feeling that Joni is not well and feels responsible for bringing Joni back to hospital in Finland. Yet, Sami finds out that Joni is in love and happy with his life in Pärnu, not thinking about death. When the brothers meet abroad in a strange town, they will rediscover ...
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1982
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Olav Neuland
Psychological romantic drama directed by Olav Neuland. The film is based on the novel "Corrida" by Teet Kallas.
Osvald Rass is an aging literary critic who makes up his mind to leave the town and move to a lonely island with his young wife Ragne, hoping to find inspiration and harmony there. Their idyllic summer is interrupted by uninvited guests. Photographer Tarmo, Ragne's ex-boyfriend, appears from the sea. A sinister-looking bull starts to bother them, followed by the whole cattle. This leads to the bull fight where the two men are ready to prove their love towards Ragne.
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1981
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Feature film, Full length feature, Musical films, dance, Fairy Tale
| Director:
Helle Murdmaa
The debut feature film directed by Helle Murdmaa is based on the children's story "Bumpy" by Oskar Luts. It is a musical fairy tale about the good and the evil, represented by sister and brother, Iti and Kusti, and by the family of forest ogres. The songs written by Olav Ehala for the film have become nationally known and beloved while being chosen also to the repertoire of Estonian song festivals.
One beautiful morning the toddler of the forest ogre family gets a babysitter, a little girl named Iti. She and her brother Kusti have been decoyed into a deep forest by a witch who wants to make them work in her ogre's household. Despite the extremely hard times she has with the toddler, Iti won't lose her patience and the little Bumpy starts to behave like a normal child. His name - Bumpy - comes from the tiny horns he has on his head. When the children find the opportunity to escape, Bumpy won't hear of letting Iti go. Iti ...
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2009
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
Rasmus Merivoo
Musical adventure comedy is the second feature film directed by Rasmus Merivoo. It is based on the children's book "The Golden Key or the adventures of Buratino" by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film is a co-production of Estonia and Russia.
Buratino and his mother Maria Carlo live on the poor side of the town called GoodBad that is split into two by a wall. Buratino goes to an awful school. Most of his days are filled with acting fools and making music together with his friends Artemon, Pierrot and Toivo. Maria has not told her son the mystery behind his strange origin yet. Evil Carabas Barabas lives in the highest skyscraper of the rich part of the town and searches for the boy who has magic powers with what one can govern the world. The chase brings Buratino together with ...
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1958
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Feature film, Full length feature, Epic, historical
| Director:
Aleksandr Mandrõkin
The feature film directed by Aleksandr Mandrokin is based on the novel "Captain of the First Rank" by Aleksey Novikov-Priboi, the author of well-known naval fiction. It is the first widescreen feature film produced by Tallinn Kinostuudio. Next to well-known Russian actors, Olev Eskola, Eve Kivi and other Estonian film actors perform.
Young sailor Zakhar Psaltoryov knows what he wants. Throughout the events of the film, his mental self-image will go through lots of changes. While getting involved in various situations and relationships, the sailor has to make all kinds of conscientious decisions. A simple Soviet sailor becomes a captain of the first rank. The others around him will be less successful.
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2021
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Feature film, Full length feature, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
| Director:
Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov
Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...
The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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2020
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Feature film, Short, Comedy, Drama, Horror
| Director:
Kaspar Ainelo
When truth goes missing,
lies start to grow,
leaving no room for miracles
to be born.
An ode to the post-truth world.
A short film directed by Kaspar Ainelo about a lost dog, a crime and victims.
Meelis, a modern countryman in search of his lost dog, comes upon a village where a mysterious crime has taken place. While trying to figure out the truth behind the strange events, a growing suspicion tempts to claim another victim.
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2016
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Youth, Road movie
| Director:
Rain Rannu
This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.
This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States. This movie touches us all, as summer work in the US has become something of a phenomenon among students in Europe - everyone knows someone who has spent a summer in USA - some experiences good, some not so good, each a story in it's own right. This movie is your chance to experience their adventures firsthand. Without sacrificing 3 months of your life. Filming took place in September 2015. It was all ...
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2019
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy, Road movie
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Rain Rannu
Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.
Based on true stories, this is comedy-drama about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world. Õie, an accountant from a small town accidentally stumbles into the tech scene of her home-country Estonia — a place where startups are a “national sport” and almost everyone has one. She is joined by a serial failure Tõnu, who is always trying one more time. Fast-paced and fun movie, based on true stories of startup founders, gives an authentic picture of the highs and lows of the crazy tech world, from Estonia to Silicon Valley — and back.
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2014
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Feature film, Full length feature, Relationship drama
| Director:
Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik
Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.
Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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1932
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Feature film, Full length feature, Melodrama
| Director:
Theodor Luts
The film full of songs and dances is directed by Theodor Luts, telling the story of the enchantment and pain of young love that takes place in an idyllic Nordic summer. It is the first Estonian-Finnish co-production and the first Estonian sound film.
Arno is a painter having an idyllic summer romance with dancer Helja on the picturesque coast of North Estonia when an unexpected visitor appears – a well-off young woman Margot. She tempts Arno to join her to have a good time at a resort town. Helja stays where she is and starts missing Arno. Northern summer is short – but long enough in order to realize one's feelings.
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2020
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Feature film, Full length feature, Adventure, Family
| Director:
Jaak Kilmi
In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.
Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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1980
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Feature film, Full length feature, Epic, historical, Drama
| Director:
Mark Soosaar
The innovative author's film by Mark Soosaar with excellent camerawork combines documentary and fiction, telling the dramatic story during the Revolution of 1905 about the tragic destiny of Bernhard Laipmann, a reforming farmer who teaches people the ideas of enlightenment.
The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not the peaceful holiday. The manor house has been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavouring towards freedom and equality and alarmed by the violence of the revolution. He has not taken part in pillaging the manor house, so he should be found guilty. Nevertheless, Laipmann ...
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2004
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Andrus Tuisk
Short drama directed by Andrus Tuisk about the Oedipal conflict between father and son.
What does a teenager do when sitting behind the computers all day and all night? Is he studying, gaming, watching porn or doing something bad? A short film about the rivarly in family where father things his son is secretly observing his parents' sex life through a web cam. Prejudices, being silent and secrets that influence family life.
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2011
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Feature film, Short, Melodrama
| Director:
Peeter Simm
Short film directed by Peeter Simm about lonely people in the blood circulation of society.
Actress Ruth has been abroad for a long time and gained fame. When arriving at her homeland, she is broken and devastated. Local producer invites her to present at the TV broadcast on an international donors' day. Ruth is on drugs and her condition won't let her to be filmed. The angry producer sends his assistant to look for Ruth. When unexpectedly meeting Sven, a former co-student, Ruth will regain her energy and starts to shine. Sven's mother tells Ruth about his son's real life. It hurts to hear the truth.
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1993
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Feature film, Full length feature, Thriller
| Director:
Ilkka Järvilaturi
The action film directed by Finnish filmmaker Ilkka Järvi-Laturi tells the story how the national gold reserve arrives at Tallinn after Estonia has regained its independence and how the local mafia has extensive plans to steal it.
Soome režissööri Ilkka Järvilaturi märulifilm Eesti kullavarude jõudmisest Tallinna pärast taasiseseisvumist ja kohaliku maffia suurejoonelisest plaanist kuld röövida.
It is the year of 1991. The pre-war gold reserve of the Republic of Estonia is being sent back to its homeland from Paris. There are gold bars worth billions that are about to arrive at Estonian Bank after fifty years of concealment. The local mafia is planning a great gold robbery. Extensive blackout would help them to switch off all security systems - young electrician Toivo is offered a huge sum of money if he will cut off electricity in the whole city. Toivo's pregnant wife Maria tells him to accept the job. At the same night, she gives ...
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2016
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
René Vilbre
It’s been 25 years since graduation and three friends are headed to their big class reunion. On the night before the reunion, the guys go out to party and feel like they are 18 once again. But the world around them, as well as their physique, has changed drastically over the past 25 years...
The three buddies Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Genka) are invited to the 25-year anniversary of their high school graduation. Actually, Mart and Andres are inclined to stay home, but Toomas talks them into going. He has organized a great weekend with drinks, ladies and sauna as a warm-up event to the class reunion. The question is whether they actually survive the Tallinn nightlife... and if they ever arrive to meet their old class-mates! The film takes a close look at the modern man at the very moment when he discovers that he is no longer 18, ...
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2018
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
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René Vilbre
The sequel to one of the most loved Estonian comedy films sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead.
This is a blunt comedy in the best sense with treasured Estonian actors, telling a story about life itself and much more. The sequel to film "Class Reunion" sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Henry "Genka" Kõrvits). This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead. It has been two years since the first Class Reunion film and our three friends have all reached new stages in their lives. The rock star Toomas has finally ...
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2019
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Feature film, Full length feature, Comedy
| Director:
René Vilbre
Having unwillingly agreed to become the Godfather to his ex-wife’s newborn baby, Andres falls deep into the pool of self-pity. Luckily,he has his best friends Mart and Toomas by his side who take Andres to tantra camp to find the most beautiful woman to accompany him at the baptising.
The final film in the trilogy takes us on another wild ridewhich will stop at nothing and will leave no time to feel shame. The three best friends –Mart, Andres and Toomas, are back! And as always, they offer genius solutions to both their personal problems, as well as the audience’s spare time. When we last saw the trio, it seemed that all their problems had been solved –Toomas got married, Mart found his way back to his wife’s loving arms and Andres finally got a potential date. At the beginning of thisfinal chapter of our story, we find the ...
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2010
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Feature film, Short, Drama, Supernatural
| Director:
Elo Selirand
A single mother races against time while trying to manage with supporting two children, working, dialy routine and herself when suddenly a mysterious Coach Driver knocks at her door.
Marju, a violinist living in a provincial town and mother of two, tries to face raising her children, everyday routine and inconsolable loneliness. As an instrumentalist playing in an orchestra, she has to work under the guidance of his ex-husband who is the conductor of the orchestra. Her life seems to come to a dead end. One morning, a stranger is standing on her doorstep, calling himself Coach Driver. Marju has to ask herself what can be done with her life.
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1971
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Kaljo Kiisk
The drama directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the first part of the novel series "Coast of Winds" by Aadu Hint, depicting the events before and during the revolution of 1905 on the island of Saaremaa.
The people of Kaugatoma fisherman's village start to build their own ship in order to earn a living independently from the local baron who does everything to prevent the collective action. Despite that the new ship "Kaugatoma" will hoist its white sails. However, the power of money becomes decisive for organizing the collective action and for the captain, Tõnis Tihu, and his relationship with the local community and his family. He leaves his wife Liisu with whom he has a son and marries a well-off widow. As a captain, it lies in Tõnis's power to take care of his seamen, ...
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2007
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Andrés Joaquin Sendino
Elena has decided to end everything, but the violent intrusion of a stranger to her apartment will make her change her mind.
Elena, who is quite confused because of her recent separation, is determined to end with all. Yet, the intrusion of a stranger into her apartment makes her see things in a different light.
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1974
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Virve Aruoja, Jaan Tooming
The poetic film directed by Virve Aruoja and Jaan Tooming depicts the fantasies and the world of play of a little girl and the beauty of nature.
Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole countryside - animals, flowers, the wind and stones. Kati conjures up the sun and floats above the fields of flowers and the whole universe. There is no borderline between reality and the magic world. Is it possible to play the same game also at her home in the city?
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1992
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Feature film, Full length feature, Youth, Drama, Family
| 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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2021
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Juho Kuosmanen
As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection
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2017
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Zaza Urušadze
There is no space for secrets.
Priest Giorgi, a former film director, is sent to serve a small parish in a mountain village. To bring the villagers closer to the church, he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture, "Some Like It Hot", the audience imply that local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi’s balance between the cleric and secular worlds starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is very hard to resist.
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2020
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Feature film, Short, Drama
| Director:
Eeva Mägi
When love has become revenge and a little child has left in the middle of it. When love has become revenge and a little child has left in the middle of it.
A short film by Eeva Mägi is packed with absurdity and tells a rather
conventional story in a rather unconventional way. The film reflects a court drama where a mother and a father, two ex-spouses, fight over the custody of their 5-year old son in court. The whole court process takes place in the middle of a grain field and on that field the courtroom
has no boundaries much like the mother and father whose actual goal is to exact vengeance on each other with no regard to the means used.
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1992
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Feature film, Full length feature, Drama
| Director:
Jaan Kolberg
The film directed by Jaan Kolberg is based on the play "Creditors" by August Strindberg tells about the dangerous storms involved in the relationship between men and women.
Adolf is an artist who has the feeling that he has given too much of himself to his wife Tekla and is unable to paint any longer. His friend Gustav assures Adolf that there is more emotional debts in Tekla's history than Adolf can ever compensate. Settling accounts will release the hurricane of feelings and one can lost life in such disbalance.