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  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | 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 Idiot
    The Idiot

    Original title: Idioot

    2011 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Rainer Sarnet

    The feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet is based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The filmmaker interprets the well-known classic in a contemporary film language with talented Estonian actors and actresses who perform in the enchanting yet intimidating beauty of a sacral space.

  • The Phenomenon of Eha
    The Phenomenon of Eha

    Title in Estonian: Eha fenomen

    1999 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

    A story about a very brave and positive woman fighting cancer.

  • Private life
    Private life

    1998 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

  • Woman Heating the Sauna
    Woman Heating the Sauna

    Original title: Naine kütab sauna

    1978 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

    The monodrama directed by Arvo Kruusement is based on the novel "Winter Holiday" by Villem Gross. The film tells the story of Anu Soldam, a working class woman, during a few winter days while she is being told by her boss to go to the countryside to heat the sauna for foreign guests.

  • Indrek
    Indrek

    Original title: Indrek

    1975 | Full length feature, Feature film | 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.

  • The Milkman of Mäeküla
    The Milkman of Mäeküla

    Original title: Mäeküla piimamees

    1965 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius

    The first full-length feature film directed by Leida Laius is based on the novel "The Milkman of Mäeküla" by Eduard Vilde, contemplating the moral choices of a man and a woman in an Estonian village at the end of 19th century.

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