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- A platoon of soldiers are stranded in an abandoned military base on a near future Earth waiting for the relief or the enemy, whichever comes first.
- In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- A small group of Russian soldiers have the task of taking Hitler's discovered remains back to Stalin in Moscow.
- Andres settles in a new farm. With rose-tinted lenses, he sets out to transform the farm into a prosperous paradise - all he needs is a healthy harvest, cooperative neighbors and a son. But, life turns out to be cruel and treacherous.
- Follows detectives Mariana Hermansson and Ewert Grens, as they get into a mysterious and increasingly dark series of events.
- In a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.
- In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government.
- A young drifting woman finds love that is not what it first seems.
- The Soviet Union is likely to collapse and Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. Soviet Union's basketball championship is set to begin while Public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation
- Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
- After being denounced as an outcast in school and frightened away from home by his mother's developing schizophrenia, there is no other way out for Johannes but to start improving his life by reforming himself.
- A retired Georgian film star, used to playing heroic leads, embarks on a cathartic odyssey after being offered a supporting role of an unpleasant elderly man.
- First document about a tibetan meditation that preserves the body from days to weeks after traditionally considered death.
- In this taut and violent noir thriller, the lines between reality and the game blur as two teenagers become absorbed into a computer game's cryptic and increasingly morbid world.
- On the shimmering shores of Europe's otherworldly edge, two teenage girls, Hanake and her best friend are discussing their first love interest while gazing out at yachts sailing to Kyoto. They whisper prayers and poems, the language of their longings. But the magic is fading in their isolated fishing village as they come to terms with a recent disaster, with some indulging in acts of erotic art, some in spiritual spells. It becomes clear that intimacy alone won't help them process their loss. In a deeply visceral tale, acclaimed Estonian director Marko Raat explores themes of love, illuminating the lives of a community who still believe that they are connected to the universe.
- Ed Vaar (1929 Estonia, Kuressaare-2015 Canada, Toronto), freelance cinematographer, who earned his nickname 'Fast Eddy' by reaching the scene of events before police and CBC crime reporters. Majority of his filmed footage has aired on TV through CBC. The rest of the footage, over hundreds of thousands of film stock, that he didn't manage to sell to news broadcasters, are piled up in Eddy's downtown Toronto penthouse rooms and basement. Do old news have value to be sold? What does Ed himself remember and what do these film stocks reflect about his own interests in this world? When do people reach the limit of preparing for their death and when do they turn into a ward, a flower, a piece of furniture?
- "Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. "The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together ... not only tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands ... to gather and to sing and to give this nation a new spirit," remarks Mart Laar, a Singing Revolution leader featured in the film and the first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Estonia. "This was the idea of the Singing Revolution." James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's "The Singing Revolution" tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom--and helped topple an empire along the way.
- Two romantics wonder if their perfect life has become predictable. They take chances to find excitement.
- What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it.
- A life affirming drama following four generations of an extended family searching for the perfect fulfilment of life, which proves to be a near impossible task
- A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years - she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
- Priest Giorgi, a former Film Director, is sent to serve the small parish in the mountain village. To bring villagers closer to church he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture - "Some Like It Hot" - the audience imply that the local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi's balance between cleric and secular world starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is difficult to resist.
- A movie about the life of legendary Estonian singer Georg Ots.
- Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.
- When we die, there are still some practicalities needed to be taken care of before our time among the living is finally over. Meanwhile on Earth enters the world around our end station, an industry of death. A place where the existential meets the mundane, and the sacred meets the profane.
- Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging the torture and murder of his family - on the streets of Tallinn.
- Una's aunt is not evil, she's just lonely. Wise little Marta, who longs for her puppy just as much as Una's aunt longs for a husband, decides to help.
- 3rd OCTAVE F is a daring and stylized opera-western that tells the story of a broken family, revenge and standing up against injustice towards women. As Mario, a bit short-fused but righteous outlaw, gets out of prison, his only wish is to get back home to his mother and sister Ada. It's not long until life drags him into trouble again. Witnessing a woman being attacked, Mario is forced to pull his gun on the perpetrator, leaving the man with just one hand. The Sheriff hears about Mario's deed and sets off to catch him. The Sheriff couldn't care less for the woman attacked or the man whose hand Mario just shot off. He wants Mario in order to avenge his father once and for all. At home, Ada gets the word that Mario is on the train on his way home with the Sheriff after him. Ada must act quickly to get Mario off that train before the Sheriff does. Luckily, she has a motorcycle and her voice to help her. Can Ada reach the right note to stop a train and disarm even the most brutal of men?
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- The famous composer Broch receives the assignment to compose a cantata on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of Adolf Hitler. However, the SS officer Gottlieb knows that Broch is not a Nazi sympathizer and sends someone to keep an eye on him, namely his mistress Ursula, who has everything to become a famous composer. Broch gets it after a while to have doubts for Ursula about National Socialism, her great hero Hitler, and even her Aryan origin.
- A portrait of a giant garage complex, located in the largest blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men's club, and vary from those who just keep their cars and those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex becomes even more unique with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.
- A family comedy about a 7-year-old boy, who's a devoted viking fan.
- The NO99 Theatre announced in March of 2010 that it would use all the tricks commonly used in politics and communications over the following two months to create a new successful and energetic super-party. The theatre organised a party convention and staged it with the participation of 7000 people. The documentary film produced about the project and its influences is a study of the state of affairs in democracy, the media and grass-roots society in the Republic of Estonia.
- Nobody knows what anybody knows.
- Oliver is a 12-year-old boy whose mother, Mari has stage IV cancer, and together they are preparing for her death. Mari tries to show Oliver how to fly around as a spirit, how to talk to her when she's an angel in the sky or how they will play football together even after she has passed away. At the same time, Mari must fight for her daughter's custody, to have a chance to see her before she dies. In the midst of it stands Oliver, whose main wish is that he could simply live happily forever together with his mother and sister. WHO AM I SMILING FOR portrays a young boy dealing with the delicate matters of losing his mother to a fatal illness and the probability of losing his sister as well. This is a film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.
- A journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife.
- Utopian ideals fall victim to the foibles of human nature in this feature documentary from Estonian director Margit Lillak.
- Thirty five year-old Ekke is a burnt-out real estate agent who is deliberately alienating his wife and daughter and picking fights with his mother, mistress, and his clients - all in the hope of breaking free from the monotony of his everyday existence. Desperate to spice up his life, his quest for kicks gets more and more out of control. He destroys and provokes until one night he gets hold of a knife and finds himself unable to let go.
- A film about containment. A film of people in a container. All afraid of the unknown.
- If you've been hit, one day you'll hit back. If you aren't loved, you won't love anyone, either.
- Young Mai finds herself alone in the last bus to the city with 2 drug addicts, one of them in a quickly deteriorating situation. Failing to win the attention of the driver or the fellow passengers, she decides to intervene herself.
- Horse girls, classes, and trainers: remnants of the glory days at the racecourse in Tallinn, the Pearl of the Baltic. Women in hats and men in tweed testify to the sophisticated glamour of a city that is now becoming like all cities.
- What's a person's life like without hearing? No traffic outside, no dogs barking, no music, no birdsong... Is this world a world of unbroken silence? Is that mental space, devoid of constant irritants, therefore spiritually more receptive - say, to the voice of God? Margit, Vitali, Raivo and Riho are deaf; they're devoted Pentecostals. Having once felt the touch of Christ themselves, their aim is now to spread the message. From one deaf person to another. The task is enormous, as there are over 346 million people in the world who are completely or partially unable to hear. "The call of silence" is a story of Margit's, Vitali's, Raivo's and Riho's journeys in the most distant and exotic locations in the world - from Kazakhstan to Greece, from Russia into China. What is their message? What joys, hardships and risks does their missionary work bring?
- After the furious battle Thomas doesn't bury his twin brother, hoping for his resurrection - the second coming.
- The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself. Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips through the fingers like handful of dust.
- A multidimensional story about being a woman or a man. An emotional pilgrimage into the world of soul archetypes. She the Russian artist. He, her husband.
- The triumphs and struggles of renowned road bicycle racers Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe, both from Estonia.