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  • Maalietüüd 2023
    Maalietüüd 2023

    2023 | Exercises (Fiction), Students film | Director: Art Nõukas, Carmen-Louise Suuroja, Rauno Laikjõe, Kristjan Poom, Mathias Albrecht, Martin Koldits

    Based on the research work, imitating the painting "Dining Room" and creating etudes with different variations.

  • Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter
    Melchior The Apothecary. The Executioner's Daughter

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar

    2023 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the third film of medieval thriller, Melchior's wife Keterlyn witnesses a brutal attack. The life of an unknown young man is saved, but the victim who has lost his memory does not know who he is and how he ended up in Tallinn.

  • Melchior the Apothecary
    Melchior the Apothecary

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior

    2022 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

  • Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost
    Melchior the Apothecary. The Ghost

    Original title: Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus

    2022 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    In the second film of medieval thriller, the night watchman is frightened by a terrible ghost - the tragically drowned daughter of a rich merchant.

  • Actually
    Actually

    Original title in Estonian: "Tegelikult"

    2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Mart Sander

    Three people, who meet at a wayside hotel one stormy night, seem to share both past and future.

  • The Eternal Road
    The Eternal Road

    Original title in Finnish: Ikitie

    2017 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

    Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.

  • 1944
    1944

    Original title: 1944

    2015 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Elmo Nüganen

    The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

  • Tangerines
    Tangerines

    Original title: Mandariinid

    2013 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Zaza Urušadze

    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.

  • December Heat
    December Heat

    Original title: Detsembrikuumus

    2008 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Asko Kase

    The first full-length feature directed by Asko Kase is an enthralling action drama based on true historical events about the Communist rebellion in Estonia held on December 1st, 1924.

  • Awakening
    Awakening

    Original title: Äratus

    1989 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jüri Sillart

    The debut film by director Jüri Sillart depicts an Estonian village on the fatal day of March 25, 1949, when ten thousands of people were deported to Siberia.

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