Neitsi Maali Award for the best film of the year

    Matches: 36
    • About being human and remaining human even in the most hopeless moment.

    • In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

    • An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust.

    • A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

    • Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.

    • 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.

    • Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

    • Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

    • The Days that Confused is a story of a young man trying to make sense of life in the summer heat of late 1990s in Estonia.

    • A dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home who is just one day not coming any more..

    • It is 3 AM on June 14, 1941. More than 40,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are deported to Siberia by the authorities of Soviet Russia.

    • The film is an Estonian-Georgian co-production about a wise Estonian man living in an Abkhazian village during the turbulent times of Abkhazian-Georgian military conflict in the autumn of 1992. The Estonian takes care of two wounded enemies, trying to help both men to find a human solution in this ruthless war.

    • The debut feature film directed by Toomas Hussar is a horror comedy about a politician who loses his direction both when picking mushrooms in the forest as well as in the social system.

    • Portrait documentary by Sulev Keedus about the scum of the Russian community in Narva - the young people with asocial background who lack courage, hope and will to get out of their hopeless situation.

    • Jaan Tootseni dokfilm jälgib ühe idealistliku liikumise, Uue Maailma Seltsi sündi, elu ja valu viie aasta jooksul.

    • Is it possible to reach the moon in one breath? Yes, it is if you have the will to fly and the appropriate training. This is the case with postman Rain.

    • The symbolistic grotesque directed by Veiko Õunpuu is telling the story of a successful man in his mid-life crisis who is suffering moral issues. One of the most successful festival films in Estonia.

    • Documentary with the elements of animation directed by Mait Laas about the founders of Eesti Nukufilm, film directors Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars.

      • 2008
      • Documentary, Animation, Biographical
      • Mait Laas
    • The drama directed by Veiko Õunpuu is based on the novel "Autumn Ball" by Mati Unt, telling the story about the residents of a dormitory suburb who are more or less connected to each other. All of them suffer from loneliness and complicated relationships. This is Õunpuu's first full-length feature film that has received several acknowledged festival awards and was chosen the best Estonian film of the last 20 years.

    • Documentary directed by Sulev Keedus about the harsh daily life of people living in a small place called Mustjala, the island of Saaremaa; about the construction of a deep port at the coast of Saaremaa; and about the arrival of the bright white German cruise ship.

    • Debut film of director Veiko Õunpuu, based on the short story of the same title by Mati Unt.

    • Documentary by Enn Säde portrays Jüri Müür - an important filmmaker in Estonian culture whose films are among the best ones in Estonian national filmography.

    • The second feature film directed by Sulev Keedus is a phychological drama about human fear of tomorrow and about hopeless pursuits in order to keep one's spiritual balance in Estonia that has been recently occupied.

    • Three men, three different stories about work and being lazy, dignity and despair, struggle for existence and self-pity in a ruthless society of success.

    • First full-length film by Marko Raat tells the tragic story of an espionage agent thrown out from his company, with the aim to criticize the cult of wily business theorists.

    • An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.

    • Little baby bird Pippo falls behind his flock on their way south for the winter and lands in the chimney of little girl dog Lotte. Lotte decides that Pippo must be taken south to be reunited with his flock. The exciting journey south begins.

    • The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.

    • Portrait documentary about Grigori Kromanov - a film and theatre director - directed by Jüri Sillart.

    • The animated cartoon “1895” is dedicated to the centennial of cinema. “1895” is an animation about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière.

    • The adventure film directed by Hardi Volmer tells about the alcohol smuggling between Estonia and Finland in 1920s. The story is made contemporary through depicting the corrupted authorities.

    • In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously