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The Sleeping Beast

Original title: Tagurpidi torn

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

A gang of five children – two boys and three girls – spends their summer in an abandoned factory complex. The gang leader, Kristjan (10), would really rather hang out with his older brother’s friends but still enjoys the games and tests of courage with his peers. One day, factory owner Teet bans them from going to the complex for safety reasons. Kristjan, Ariel, Laura, Mia-Margot and Siim decide to ignore the ban and return to the complex secretly. One day Elmar catches the wandering Lisandra, Loore's 3-year-old sister, and locks her in his guard booth for her own safety. ...
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Firebird

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Rebane

Firebird is a touching love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War.

Firebird is a touching love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War. Sergey, a troubled young private, is counting the days till his military service ends. His life is turned upside down when a daring fighter pilot, Roman arrives at the base. Driven by curiosity, Sergey and Roman navigate the precarious line between love and friendship as a dangerous love triangle forms between them and Luisa, the secretary to the base Commander. Sergey is forced to face his past as Roman's career is endangered and Luisa struggles to keep her family together. Amid the fears of ...
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The Heroes of TLU

Original title in Estonian: TLÜ Kangelased

2021 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Janek Maantoa

The Heroes of TLU is about a concerned and stressed businessman, who searches for solutions from a mysterious comic book.

The Heroes of TLU is about a concerned and stressed businessman who receives a mysterious package that contains a comic book. In the comic book, our businessman discovers the solution to his problem. He calls a mysterious number that comes with the package and learns that heroes are real after all and ready to help.
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REC

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Linda Ekaterincheva

A short thriller about a security guard, who has to get out of the CCTV room to investigate why copies of the same man are wandering around an office building after hours.

The movie features a security guard who has to confront multiple copies of the same person walking around hallways, figure out the “true” reality and break free from the “CCTV map” that he has built in his mind.
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Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

2018 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt ...
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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Mihkel

Original title (in Icelandic): Undir Halastjörnu

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ari Alexander Magnusson

In the film, Mihkel and Veera dream of moving from their home in Estonia to Iceland. Events take an unexpected turn and Mihkel dies a painful death in Iceland, betrayed by his oldest friend, Igor.

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an  Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into ...
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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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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.

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.It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor), who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. ...
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