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Lili

Original title: Lili

2008 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?".

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?", is it a memory picture of the first love of passed times or the first intercourse with a prostitute earning her regular income. Lily is not only a distant hero from a song. Every soldier has his own Lily, would it be the first love from school, front prostitute or simply phantasm. But always, however, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate.....
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Fed up!

Original title: Kõrini!

2005 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The adventurous and funny road movie directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the way love and hate are interconnected and how positive solutions are possible even when one is completely fed up with everything.

Kaminsky is a long-distance driver disappointed both in life and other people. His last duty as a drives takes him to Estonia where he decides to fulfill an old promise. By chance, Kaminsky meets an Estonian cellist Stella on his road. Her career in Germany has ended already before it ever started. Kaminsky's trailer truck is being steadily followed by a catafalque where an Estonian beginner bank robber Wolf is chasing his eluded prey. Undertaker Manfred with dark past tries to lead Wolf closer to God. In Estonia, everyone's wishes will come true, even if not exactly the way they ...
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Good Hands

Original title: Head käed

2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The crime comedy directed by Peeter Simm is based on the story "Arnold" by Toomas Raudam. It is an adventurous tale about friendship, humanity and discovering love.

Professional pickpocket Margita from Riga fails in stealing a car and hides out in an Estonian small town. She wants to leave soon but her accomplice in Riga won't pick up the phone. She meets three Estonian men in the small town, all of them attracting attention and sympathy in Margita despite of their odd manners. To crown it all, an eight-year old Pavo is entrusted to Margita. She starts to feel that this place could be her new home, but then crime news appear in local newspapers.
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An Affair of Honour

Original title: Lurjus

1999 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Valentin Kuik

The tragicomedy directed by Valentin Kuik is based on the story "An Affair of Honor" by Vladimir Nabokov, telling about honor and dignity in the contemporary world.

Hendrik is a responsible public servant who is deeply in love with his beautiful wife Evelin. Evelin, however, finds their protected life boring; she wants Hendrik to do something more exciting. When he returns from his business trip, Hendrik will find his schoolmate Berg in their balcony and will furiously throw his gloves to Berg's face. Soon it will turn out that this has been the challenge accepted.
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Indrek

Original title: Indrek

1975 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mikk Mikiver

The first feature film directed by Mikk Mikiver is based on the play "Man and God" staged by Voldemar Panso in 1962 in Estonian Drama Theatre. The story is based on the second part of pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton Hansen Tammsaare.

Indrek Paas studies in Maurus private grammar school and is the tallest and oldest boy in his class. This does not seem to interest Mr Maurus though. An Estonian boy must get an opportunity to study if he really wants to. However, it turns out that it is not the most important principle at that school. In fact, there is no principle that cannot be escaped under certain conditions here. Indrek gets to know truths that may turn out to be wrong, and lies that may lead to truth. Indrek meets a girl whom he can give a name himself ...
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Little Requiem for Harmonica

Original title: Väike reekviem suupillile

1972 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

The film directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the short story "Little Requiem for Harmonica" by Enn Vetemaa, telling the story about understanding between different generations.

Jaan and Heiki are two students crossing the river of time in 1972. On the other side of that river is the occupied Estonia in the autumn of 1944. The film is about the painful collision between two eras and two mentalities. The young men have to make difficult decisions in order to stay alive. The film conveys the message that is against war, Fascism, Bourgeois nationalism, and abstract humanism; it supports the idea of understanding between generations and the unity of ideals and objectives.
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Traces

Original title: Jäljed

1963 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk tells the story about the destinies of former fellow students in an Estonian village during the era of postwar collectivization. The screening of the film was banned until 1988.

Heino Raagen and his war comrades begin a new battle while arriving at their home village - establishing a collective farm. The sufferings and fears of the war have exhausted people; nevertheless, they still stick together and protect their close ones. Heino's girlfriend Valve hides the plans of her brother Robert hiding in the forest from him; as a result, their relationship will fall apart. Life goes on, but disappointment and anger will take their toll even when years have gone by.
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