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  • He knows what I did last summer
    He knows what I did last summer

    Original title in Estonian: "Ta teab, mis ma tegin mullu suvel"

    2019 | Short, Students film | Director: Viktor Marvin

    A magical tale of a simple holiday among five friends that takes an astonishing turn for the uncanny.

  • Hold Onto Me
    Hold Onto Me

    Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

    Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

  • 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.

  • Mont Blanc
    Mont Blanc

    Original title: Mont Blanc

    2001 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Priit Tender

    An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.

  • Ühe talu lugu
    Ühe talu lugu

    1998 | Documentary | Director: Mati Viiul

  • Letters from the East
    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.

  • American Mountains
    American Mountains

    Original title: Ameerika mäed

    1994 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Peeter Simm

    Feature film by Peeter Simm about a man who is mysteriously released after a long imprisonment. When he comes home, it turns out that the price of freedom is high.

  • Estonian limestone
    Estonian limestone

    Title in Estonian: Eestimaa paas

    1988 | Documentary | Director: Gennadi Meleško

    Documentary commissioned by the committee of construction of USSR introducing the Estonian national stone – limestone.

  • Kasvuaeg                    (Ellerhein)
    Kasvuaeg (Ellerhein)

    1978 | Musical film | Director: Maie Kivita

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1959 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Ülo Tambek

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