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Nightingale

Original title: Ööbik

2023 | Short, Feature film | 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.

Autumn 1944 in Tallinn, Estonia; German forces retreat as the Russian army settles in. Young soldier Aleksei is sent from the frontline to work in a prison filled with Estonian political prisoners. While doing his rounds at night Aleksei is stirred by the beautiful voice of Saale, an Estonian girl singing to the prisoners from the other side of the prison walls. He learns that the Russian military police plans on capturing Saale; Aleksei must risk his own safety to warn her before it is too late.
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Islam Eesti südames

2020 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Madis Reimund
Kratt

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...

When children are left at Grandma's without smartphones they’re bored to tears. That is until Granny finds them loads to do. She also tells them about a magical creature named KRATT that’ll do whatever its master says. When they stumble upon an instruction on how to build one they don’t hesitate. All they have to do now is to buy a soul from the devil...
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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True

Original title: Omad

2018 | Short, Feature film | Director: Marta Pulk

In this cold world one innocent joke is enough to release an avalanche of an argument.

In a transforming country between old and new, an old man drops an inappropriate joke in the doctors waiting room. This releases an avalanche of debate between five perfect strangers, full of unexpected twists. With a dark sense of humour the movie deals with living in a changing world where absolutely no one gets to feel comfortable.
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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The bachelor and Volga

Original title: Poissmees ja Volga

2014 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Story about loneliness. Documentary comedy about a man looking for a wife.

Comedy about a lonely man from Narva (border town next to Russia). Main protagonist is a 32-year-old man who lives alone in a very small apartment. He works as a history and participates in a trainings of dance club with the interest in Middle Ages. Misha also collects model cars. Moreover, he is passionate about buying his own Soviet car Volga 3102. Also he dreams of finding himself a wife. To do that Misha tries to meet girls through Internet. Meetings take place in different venues. Misha wants to have a wife and a family, but on the other hand ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Reet Kasesalu