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  • Truth and Justice
    Truth and Justice

    Original title: Tõde ja õigus

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

    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.

  • Piano
    Piano

    Original title: Piano

    2015 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

    A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.

  • Mai
    Mai

    2013 | Feature film, Short | Director: Maria Reinup

    Short film directed by Maria Reinup about the wall of indifference inside and around us.

  • Lonely Island
    Lonely Island

    Original title: Üksik saar

    2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

    The lyrical and grotesque mosaic directed by Peeter Simm depicts people as lonely islands; from the further distance they look like an archipelago. The film is an Estonian-Belorussian-Latvian co-production.

  • Letters to Angel
    Letters to Angel

    Original title: Kirjad Inglile

    2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

    The drama directed by Sulev Keedus tells about Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja who has been sent to the Afghanistan War many years ago and who has converted to Islam there. While returning to Estonia, he will face a completey different kind of war.

  • Divers in the Rain
    Divers in the Rain

    Original title: Tuukrid vihmas

    2009 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn

    This is a story about an everyday diver and a night dentist.

  • Magnus
    Magnus

    Original title: Magnus

    2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

    The debut feature film directed by Kadri Kõusaar tells the story about alienation and absence of emotions through the relationship of a depressed youngster and his father. The film with excellent cinematography has received awards at several acknowledged film festivals. The film is currently banned for protecting the private life of a prototype.

  • Message for the Neighbours
    Message for the Neighbours

    Original title: Sõnum naabritele

    2005 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Tender

    Anti has worked as a TV-set repairman all his life. One day he realizes - it is the world that needs to be repaired.

  • Kaks paari ja üksindus
    Kaks paari ja üksindus

    1984 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask

  • Murder on the 31st Floor Part II
    Murder on the 31st Floor Part II

    Original title: 31. osakonna hukk, II jagu

    1980 | 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.

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