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  • Nightingale
    Nightingale

    Original title: Ööbik

    2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

    Russian guard Aleksei risks his life, to save an Estonian girl who the KGB is planning to capture for singing outside the prison where he works.

  • Melchior the Apothecary
    Melchior the Apothecary

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

  • Patarei partii
    Patarei partii

    2022 | Other categories | Director: Liisa Rita Viitung

  • Guide of Torture
    Guide of Torture

    2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ville Niemi

    Exhibition manager of the KGB prison cells ponders how telling stories of the tortured in his daily life affects to him, in a story that flickers between reality and the past of the tortured prisoner.

  • Maria ’s Paradise
    Maria ’s Paradise

    Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

    The angel will guide us.

  • Another
    Another

    Original title: Teine

    2005 | Feature film, Short, Musical film, Dance | Director: René Vilbre

    Dance film about the people being in a love triangle. In order to free themselves from their personal prison, they have to understand what holds them back to be happy.

  • Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed
    Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed

    Original title: Metsavennad voodi ees

    2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

    Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.

  • Estonian Prison
    Estonian Prison

    Original title: Eesti vangla

    2003 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

    The main subject of the history documentary is Patarei Prison - a unique architectural and historical building.

  • Visitors from the sky
    Visitors from the sky

    Original title: Külalised

    2002 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rein Kotov, Piret Tibbo-Hudgins

    Documentary about the life and mission of the foreign espionage agents of Estonian origin in the Soviet Estonia in 1950s.

  • Three Stories About ...
    Three Stories About ...

    Original title: Sellised kolm lugu: Aida

    1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

    Short film directed by Peeter Simm is inspired by a shipwreck that took place near Sõrve Peninsula, Deember 1994.

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