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  • Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary
    Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

    Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

    2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

    An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

  • Dear passengers
    Dear passengers

    Original title: Kallid reisijad

    2022 | Feature film, Short, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Madli Lääne

    A restless longing creeps around the city bus.

  • Drifting Apart
    Drifting Apart

    Original title: Triivides kaugusse

    2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Rebeka Rummel

  • Hit Big
    Hit Big

    Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

    On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

  • Lovable
    Lovable

    Original title (in Latvian): Milulis

    2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Stanislavs Tokalovs

    Matiss is way too young to be suddenly left to care for his partner’s nine-year-old daughter. A responsibility like this reveals Matiss’ true nature, inner demons and a lack of relationships based on pure love.

  • Estonian Funeral
    Estonian Funeral

    Original title: Eesti matus

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

    Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

  • Reverse Gear
    Reverse Gear

    Original title in Estonian: Tagurpidikäik

    2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

    The film is about a selfish guy who is inattentive to other people. Nevertheless, he receives help and a sense of life.

  • Sewing Machines
    Sewing Machines

    Original title in Estonian: Õmblusmasinad

    2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Alesja Suzdaltseva

    A short film by Alesja Suzdaltseva tells a story about relationships, a spiritual awakening and one pretty hot summer day in Soviet Estonia.

  • Wednesday
    Wednesday

    2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Eeva Mägi

    Jaanus spends the last day with his wife Karin at home. In the midst of common eiders, seagulls, fishing nets and summer breeze, they send Karin's soul to the eternity. An everyday life full of bitter sweet love falls with the setting sun into the depths of the sea.

  • Blue
    Blue

    Original title: Sinine

    2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

    When two strangers’ paths cross after a car accident, the woman hijacks the situation and gets into the man’s car, demanding that he take her away from the scene. As the man tries to find a way out of the situation, fragments from the woman’s past start painting a picture of the tragic events that happened to her.

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