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Deserted

2021 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

In the desert you’ll find your soul.

On an assignment to the abandoned, lawless and apocalyptic Sinai coast a Swedish photo journalist Ingrid (Frida Westerdahl) is kidnapped by a gang of Palestinian men and hidden in the desert. Soon Ingrid finds herself falling in love with the most sympathetic of the abductors, Ali (Ali Suliman). Ali's boss Moussa (Firas Taybeh) suspects that something is going on and becomes increasingly dangerous and violent. This is a film about an all-conquering love between people from completely different cultural backgrounds who find each other in the desert. It is in the desert where the soul becomes naked and ...
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Rain

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Janno Jürgens

Feature film directed by Janno Jürgens follows 12-years-old Ats, whose older brother Rain unexpectedly returns to the family home in a small seaside town to face their authoritarian father Kalju and their mother, a woman on the verge of losing love. Ats is a witness of the clash between his father and brother, two stubborn men from different generations with radically different views of the world.

Feature film directed by Janno Jürgens follows 12-years-old Ats, whose older brother Rain unexpectedly returns to the family home in a small seaside town to face their authoritarian father Kalju and their mother, a woman on the verge of losing love. Ats is a witness of the clash between his father and brother, two stubborn men from different generations with radically different views of the world. When father tries to push Rain, who has lost his footing, into the boundaries of his world, Rain finds hope in Aleksandra, a mysterious woman with a shady past.
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Fire Lily

Original title: Tuliliilia

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

Life finds a way.

The mystical drama thriller tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength.
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Love Is Blind

Original title: Kertu

2013 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilmar Raag

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.
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Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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Taxi-Driver

Original title: Taksojuhid

2004 | TV feature | Director: Ingomar Vihmar, Jussi Niilekselä
The Firewater

Original title: Tulivesi

1994 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Hardi Volmer

The adventure film directed by Hardi Volmer tells about the alcohol smuggling between Estonia and Finland in 1920s. The story is made contemporary through depicting the corrupted authorities.

When Eerik and his companions go to another night sea trip, they are aware of the danger to get caught by the border guard. Spirit smuggling to Finland during the era of the Dry Law pays off so the risk has to be taken. After all, he needs a house to live in with Hilda, and a boat in order to work at the sea. And even if something goes wrong, an old man Nymann will help out with his money. Yet, Aleks, the new chief at the borderguard office, has different views. Having fought at the Estonian War ...
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The Joys of Midlife

Original title: Keskea rõõmud

1986 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Lembit Ulfsak

The debut feature film directed by Lembit Ulfsak is a road movie about people who have reached their midlife crisis. One summer they take a trip to a healer through the picturesque landscapes of Estonia, in order to regain happiness in their lives.

Two well-off married couples (Pille and Tõnu, Silva and Hubert) have reached the understanding that something is wrong in their lives. They pin their hopes on NIgul, the famous healer living in southern Estonia. Together with Helena, who is better equipped with esoteric knowledge, the couples set off for a cross-country car trip on a nice summer day. They are being warned during their journey that the healer won't change their lives in a second. When arriving at their destination, the couples will face an unexpected surprise.
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Kaks päeva Viktor Kingissepa elust II jagu

1981 | TV feature, Series, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask
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