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  • Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter
    Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

    2023 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

  • Mother. In the Name of The Millions
    Mother. In the Name of The Millions

    2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

    When a mother hides another mother's son, she faces her destiny, same way the millions of mothers did so in those remarkable days we shall never forget.

  • Blue is deep purple
    Blue is deep purple

    Original title in Estonian: Sinine on sügavlilla

    2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Triin Ruumet

  • Broken connections
    Broken connections

    2008 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Asko Kase

  • Awakening
    Awakening

    Original title: Äratus

    1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

    The debut film by director Jüri Sillart depicts an Estonian village on the fatal day of March 25, 1949, when ten thousands of people were deported to Siberia.

  • Ice Run
    Ice Run

    Original title: Jääminek

    1962 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

    The debut film by director Kaljo Kiisk is based on the short story "Ice Run" written by Aadu Hint in 1943 in Yaroslavl, Russia. The feature film depicts the tragic destinies of two fisherman families on a small Estonian island occupied by Germans during the World War II.

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