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Not too hard and not in the face

Original title in Estonian: Mitte näkku ja mitte väga valusalt

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

An adaptation film by students of the second year of cinematography, the script of which is inspired by P.I. Filimonov's short story “Not too hard and not in the face”.

The 30-year-old protagonist Slava wakes up in a strange place with missing memories from last night. He’s taken to a hospital where Slava learns that in this odd, even dystopian world he has awakened, all the men have gone extinct long ago, leaving him the only man left in the world. Experimental fever-dream-like voyage through the mind and emotional turmoil of a young man trying to make sense of life as well as accepting the end of his relationship.
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The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

The Manslayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear ...
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Nightbirds

Original title (in Latvian): "Naktsputni"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Darta Putnina

The family from the 4th floor are reasonably sane people. Krists is a brash teenager who lives in his dreams more than in real world and has a keen interest in the neighbor girl Unda. Ineta, Krist's mother, is a moderately hysteical being, a primary school teacher who devotes all her awake hours to obsessively watching shows on TV. The tranquil balance of this family is disrupted one night when it turns out Krist's world of sleepwalking has began to endanger the life in awake.
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Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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Pimedad aknad

2008 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask
Jade Warrior

Original title: Igavese armastuse sõdalane

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

The romantic martial arts film by Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila brings together the myths of the epic "Kalevala" and Buddhist ethics while telling the story about human yearning for love that can conquer the ancient evil.

The warrior facing the final battle between the good and the evil must be spiritually pure, bright, and cold - like a diamond. Master Sinai, however, falls in love with a beautiful young woman whose heart belongs to another man. Sintai's enemy will be defeated, but not destroyed. This way, Sintai creates a possibility for himself to be happily in love at another time in another place. But he has revived evil forces that will be the menace for the world in 21st century.
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Kevad südames

1985 | Musical film, TV feature, TV feature | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Lack of Wind

Original title: Tuulevaikus

1970 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

The film directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the novel "The Seven Days of Tuisu Taavi" by Einar Maasik.

Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. Neither he nor other fishermen like that the fisheries inspector Olev has banned using motorboats on the lake, because of the possible injuries of fingerlings. Taavi is also concerned of the fact that Olev is often seen together with nurse Leili whom Taavi holds dear. But he is definitely not the guy who would just sit and wait for the better days.
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Pimedad aknad I seeria

1968 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Tõnis Kask
Pimedad aknad II seeria

1968 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Tõnis Kask