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  • Hit Big
    Hit Big

    Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

    On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

  • Let’s Do It!
    Let’s Do It!

    Original title: Teeme ära!

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets

    In 2007 an Estonian entrepreneur was illuminated by a beautifully simple idea: our planet is full of garbage - let’s start with our own backyard and clean it up! Exhilarated by success, the time seems ripe to accomplish something of true magnitude…

  • Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love
    Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

    Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

    A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

  • The Persistence of Memory
    The Persistence of Memory

    Original title in Estonian: Mälu püsivus

    2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

    This is a film about telling stories. How we approach them, feel them and where they intersect. It is a drama about creating a drama. A matrioshka of stories.

  • Dawn of War
    Dawn of War

    Original title: O2

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margus Paju

    A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

  • Fire Lily
    Fire Lily

    Original title: Tuliliilia

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maria Avdjuško

    Life finds a way.

  • Viru. Embassy of Freedom
    Viru. Embassy of Freedom

    Original title: Viru. Vabaduse saatkond

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Margit Kilumets, Andres Lepasar

  • 186 Kilometres
    186 Kilometres

    Original title: Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse

    2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

    The pitch-black comedy directed by Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk about well-known Estonian actor Jan Uuspõld. Having reached a dead end with his life, Jan starts a dramatic journey full of adventures from Tallinn to Tartu. Numerous public figures in Estonia participate in the film, including the president of the country.

  • I am not a Tourist, I Live Here
    I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

    Part 1 and 2

    1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

    The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

  • Tudengiloss
    Tudengiloss

    1979 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Elmo Lööve

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