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The Wish Tree

Original title: Soovide puu

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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.

Liina comes to the city while hoping to find opportunities to start her own life there. To work as a cashier in the supermarket is definitely not Liina's dream job but she won't fit for those her relative Ave can offer her. Liina meets more and less strange people at her work and in the dormitory - and all of them have got wishes. Saara, Liina's neighbour, says that somewhere there is a tree of wishes - but how to recognize it among all other trees? And how can one realize what is the thing they wish the most? Liina ...
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Circle

Original title: Ring

2004 | Feature film, Short | 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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Revolution of Pigs

Original title: Revolution of Pigs

2004 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi, René Reinumägi

An adventurous youth comedy directed by Jaak Kilmi and Rene Reinumägi takes place in an enviroment resembling Woodstock where a fifteen-year-old protagonist takes part in a revolt against the system, during which he identifies himself as a person and finds love.

In the summer of 1986 thousands of Estonian youngsters go to the gathering of Estonian Students' League in order to spend three days full of adventures, romance and partying. Yet, the pressure of the System is here - one has to follow ideological rules and keep one's mouth shut, notwithstanding the fact that the slogans are not valid any more and the graduates can be sent to the war in Afghanistan. Pressure creates anti-pressure and the struggle against the System explodes.
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Tristan and Isolde

Title in Estonian: Sellised kolm lugu: Tristan ja Izolde

1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Askolds Saulitis

Confusing and crazy story about the adventures of two lovers in the underworld in Latvia.

Contemporary version of the story of Tristan and Isolde dipped in dark humour. The story takes place in the bars and streets of Riga, Latvia. The film with the components of absurd includes killing and chase, love and sex, common people and underworld characters. But the protagonists of the film, unlike in the famous legend, won't die and go on with their lives.
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Georgica

Original title: Georgica

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.

Story about the silent Boy who is sent for medical treatment to Jakub, a former colonial missionary living on an island that is also a military training area. Jakub is the only civilian there. He has to make observations during the bombing at night and phone the headquarters about the results. The observation spot is located in the tower of a church in ruins where Jakub makes silage. The missionary - an old horse - tramples silage in the church tower. There are beehives inside of the church. Jakub plays the organ, singing chorals and the Boy pumps the organ ...
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The Febris

Original title: Febris

1997 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

Feature film debut by director Andres Puustusmaa, a fantasy sketch based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel"The Dwarf"– a story about dwarf in a man.

Film director Andres Puustusmaa has advised the audience to watch his film as a plotless poem composed by colours. The sketch full of fantasy is based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel "The Dwarf", telling about the dwarf hidden in a human soul. The dwarf as the embodiment of perversion is fed by estrangement, envy, narrow-mindedness, violence and the passion of manipulation. A human being starts to seek for salvation only when chaos has broken out.
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Deserters

Title in Estonian: Väekargajad

1993 | Feature film, Short | Director: Talvo Pabut

Film about the choices made in the name of continuation of life during the Great Northern War in Estonia plundered by plague.

Estonian villages have become almost deserted as a result of plague and the Great Northern War. However, one woman has survived in a farm. Two starving deserters arrive to her farm – a Swede from the King Carl's army and an Estonian from the Imperial Russian army. There is not enough food for two men in the house so one has to leave, but which one? The woman has to make the decision.
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The Battlefields of Love

Original title: Armastuse lahinguväljad

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik

Drama directed by Valentin Kuik tells about a young couple whose life will be changed by recruitment. The film is based on the author's short story "The Deserter" (1987). The shooting process started in late 1980s and ended after Estonia regained its independence. The film is the director's retrospect to the Soviet times.

When the doorbell rang late night during the Soviet times, if was often the sign of military recruitment. The chain of events in the film begins from the fatal ring at the door, putting the marriage of a young photographer and his beautiful wife to the test. Being afraid of the army, the young family try to escape the situation. However, they are drifting away from freedom.
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Those Old Love Letters

1992 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Three Baltic Love Stories: Mattias and Ann. Estonian Spring 1991

Original title: Balti armastuslood: Mattias ja Ann. Eesti kevad 1991

1992 | Feature film, Short | 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.

The Estonian love story takes place in spring when people were dreaming and singing about freedom and took down the monuments of Lenin, but there were still Russian fighter airplanes flying in the sky. A young Estonian dissident is released from prison and returns to his hometown Tartu. When he arrives at home, the man finds out that life has changed and his loved one has found a new man.
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