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Äraneetud linn

1996 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Too Tired to Hate

Original title: Ma olen väsinud vihkamast

1995 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hannes Lintrop, Renita Lintrop

The first full-length feature film directed by Hannes and Renita Lintrop is a crime thriller telling the story of young people being in tight corners. The film has been awarded numerous festival prizes.

Siim is a seventeen-year-old boy who wants to get his girlfriend a christmas present but his mother will guzzle away his money for getting drunk. Siim who has become tough while growing up in the streets now decides to fight against other fellows in the street and this will lead him to prison. Siim has made up his mind that he will resist the depths of unjustice and violence; however, he cannot first realize the deceitful and cruel situation he is in.
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American Mountains

Original title: Ameerika mäed

1994 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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.

A former goldminer who had run foul of the law is made an unusual offer by mafia. When he arrives at his home country after a long absence, he won't be able to face his fears and gets into odd situations. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him step down from the rollercoaster in order to make right decisions. Fulfilling his childhood dream will make his life even more complicated.
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Kodust punaste pihlade all - Kalju Lepik

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Russian Metal and US $-Kiss

Original title of the film "Vene metalli ja US $ suudlus"

1993 | Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov, Artur Talvik

Documentary about Russian metal smuggling via Estonia.
Come Back, Lumumba

Original title: Tule tagasi, Lumumba

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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Three Baltic Love Stories: Vytautas and Juozas. Lithuanian Autumn 1991

Original title: Balti armastuslood: Vytautas ja Juozas. Leedu sügis 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.

Lithuanian autumn. A young man studying in a Catholic seminary stands at the crossroads of his life: he has to decide whether to choose serving the God or living civil life. His uncle, a priest, tries to explain the young man the meaning of religious love, but leaves the decision making open for him. The young man meets an Estonian girl who takes part in striptease performances. The young couple decides to leave their former life; however, destiny has its own way.
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A Game to Vanya

Original title: Geim Vanjale

1991 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Elo Tust

Portrait documentary about volleyball coach Ivan Dratshov who can be undoubtedly called the Father of Estonian volleyball.

Russian soldier Ivan Dratshov came to Estonia on a military ship during the World War Two and stayed to live here. He turned out to be a important person in the development of Estonian sports. Dratshov founded Estonian school of volleyball and led the male volleball team to the victory - they became the champions of the Soviet Union in 1968. The documentary shows archival materials about the history of Estonian male and female volleyball sports. Former players share their memories about Ivan Dratshov (1921-1989), his life's work and complicated destiny.
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Aken aja liikumisse. Viivi Luik

1991 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Escape

Title in Estonian: Põgenemine

1991 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Historical documentary by Andres Sööt and Jaak Lõhmus about Estonians and Estonian Swedes who fled from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.

Historical retrospective to the escape of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet Red Army to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944. The documentary begins and ends with the episodes of crackling logfires and rippling waves in summer 1990 by the Estonian coasts where 46 years ago the boats filled with refugees left Estonia across the stormy Baltic Sea. Photographs, rare film footage and personal recollections of refugees express their journey and the further destiny of the refugees during the first post-war years. The film is an emotional mosaic about the great saga of escaping the war.
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