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  • Love Deception in Suite 21
    Love Deception in Suite 21

    2024 | Short, Students film | Director: Kelli Andermann

    In an episode of the TV series, a married couple has a heated argument that turns violent. Antoni leaves the room after hitting Larissa. The maid Agnieszka, who overheard the altercation, takes a moment and decides to enter the room.

  • Vertical Money
    Vertical Money

    Original title: Vara küps

    2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Martti Helde

    Where have the Estonian forests gone?

  • Legends of Winding Roads
    Legends of Winding Roads

    Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

    Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

  • Over the Line
    Over the Line

    Original title in Estonian: Üle piiri

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

    The focus of the short film is on people struggling with their darker side, hiding their lies from others and themselves.

  • Smalltown Miss
    Smalltown Miss

    Original title in Estonian: Kolhoosi miss

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alexandra Pärn

    The short film is made by second year film students. It is based on a Lilli Luuk's novella “Kolhoosi miss” following a story of two young girls, their friendship and growing up in a 1988 Soviet smalltown in Estonia.

  • The Red Fairy Tale
    The Red Fairy Tale

    Original title in Latvian: SARKANĀ PASAKA

    2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Frederiks Sebastians

    A story about the time of the Soviet occupation.

  • Sewing Machines
    Sewing Machines

    Original title in Estonian: Õmblusmasinad

    2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Alesja Suzdaltseva

    A short film by Alesja Suzdaltseva tells a story about relationships, a spiritual awakening and one pretty hot summer day in Soviet Estonia.

  • Guilt
    Guilt

    Original title in Estonian: Süütunne

    2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Silver Õun

    The film depicts an fictive interrogation scene in Estonia during the 1940s.

  • Taagepera
    Taagepera

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm

  • The Little Comrade
    The Little Comrade

    Original title: Seltsimees laps

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

    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.

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