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  • Minsk
    Minsk

    2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Boris Guts

    Minsk. August 2020. Pavel and Julia, a young couple, go out at night…During 1,5 hours, their life changes completely.

  • Captain Volkonogov Escaped
    Captain Volkonogov Escaped

    Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

    2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

    Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

    Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

  • The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road

    Original title in Finnish: Ikitie

    2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

    Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.

  • Ghost Mountaineer
    Ghost Mountaineer

    Original title: Must alpinist

    2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

    Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.

  • Rat Trap
    Rat Trap

    Original title: Rotilõks

    2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

    The adventurous drama directed by Andres Puustusmaa is based on true events. Both Estonian and Russian actors are involved, including Marina Aleksandrova, Nikolai Fomenko and Kirill Käro, a rising film star with Estonian roots.

  • In the Air
    In the Air

    Original title: Õhus

    2009 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Martinus Daane Klemet

    The telecommunication between the wolf and humans leads to a situation where the law of gravity changes to the unknown.

  • Cabbage Head
    Cabbage Head

    Original title: Kapsapea

    1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

    It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman.

  • Theatre Papa Carlo
    Theatre Papa Carlo

    Original title: Papa Carlo teater

    1988 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

    A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlos a path to the doors of freedom is laid.

  • The Gang
    The Gang

    Original title: Bande

    1985 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

    Political detective film directed by Arvo Kruusement based on the novel "The Glass Key" by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It tells the story of an election campaign in USA in 1920s.

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