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The Missile

Original title (in Finnish): Ohjus

2024 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Miia Tervo

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina (28), a single mother drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border. A drama-comedy of personal and national borders and boundaries

Finnish Lapland, 1984. Niina, is a single mother of two children . After an absurd jumble of events, Niina ends up as an archiver in the local newspaper Niina hears an enormous bang from the sky – the radio says that the Soviet Union has shot a missile across the Finnish border to Inari: soon the whole village is filled with reporters from all over the world. Niina knows the area and its people, so she is drawn into the investigation of the missile incident and the threat of nuclear war. Niina meets Kai, a fighter pilot who knows ...
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Ninja

2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Reinup

Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a life-threatening motorcycle trick in order to set a world record and bring attention to Keity so she could go to the trial motorbike World Championships.

Keity Meier, one of the few female stars of Estonian motor sports, has been dreaming of going to the World Championships for years. In order to raise the necessary funds, Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a complicated and life-threatening motorcycle stunt to set a world record and to bring more attention to Keity. Keity has to physically practice with her motorbike for days on a ramp built in the garden of her friends to make sure that the trick is a success and personally oversee the details of construction, safety and the organising of it. Doing the stunt also ...
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The Last Ones

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

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

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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All the Sins

Original title (in Finnish): Kaikki synnit

2019 | TV Serial, Elisa | Director: Mika Ronkainen

Crime thriller about complex relationships, small town prejudices and alternative lifestyles.

S1. Detective Lauri Räihä returns home after 10 years to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern town where he grew up. His marriage is in trouble and going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him. With partner Sanna Tervo he works to solve the case only to discover other truths about himself, his hometown, and whether one has the power to forgive all sins. S2. The year is 1999. Jussi Ritola, police officer in a small town in Northern Finland, starts to investigate the death of two of ...
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Ice

Original title: Jää

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

A father and son story set on the enchanting ice road across the frozen sea.

Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea. On the vast snowy desert past memories collide with the present.
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The Dissidents

Original title: Sangarid

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Adapt or run!

Fast-paced action comedy “The Dissidents” takes us back to the 1980s. Three Estonian guys flee Soviet Union, because they want to have as awesome life in the free world as they’ve seen in TV series “Miami Vice”, “Knight Rider” and “Santa Barbara”. Swedes welcome friends as real heroes, who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, our dissidents discover that they’ve become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table, they have to do something as lame as... work! But the boys are no quitters, so they come up with new crazy ...
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Lake Bodom

Original title: Bodom

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Taneli Mustonen

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls decide to rewrite history.

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, turns out not all of them are there to play... Tonight... it's girls against boys. Let the killing games begin.
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Somnambulance

Original title: Somnambuul

2003 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

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.

The Coastal Swedes have left their village in Estonia to flee from the war. Only Gottfried the lighthouse keeper has stayed there. His young daughter Eetla decides to stay with his father. Here she is now together with his father - facing her own stress and the Soviet soldiers in the village. Fear of unknown makes Eetla escape to her dreams. While standing on the edge of the sky, the earth and the sea, Eetla struggles between reality and dreams, life and death. Kasper, the doctor who hides himself in the lighthouse, tries to support the girl but even he ...
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Murder on the 31st Floor Part I

Original title: 31. osakonna hukk, I jagu

1979 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The political detective film directed by Peeter Urbla is based on the sci-fi novel "Murder on the 31st Floor" by Swedish writer Per Wahlöö, warning against the social effects of media corruption.

Police officer Jensen tells to evacute the whole building of a leading media group after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion; however, the media group sustains big losses because of the work stoppage and the management requires investigation of the case and makes no public notice about it. Officer Jensen identifies six suspects, then finds out that he is being followed himself, especially when he gets involved in the obscure activities of the 31st floor. Investigations lead to confessions and the case will be closed. The one who pleads himself guilty suddenly dies in the detention ...
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