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- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsMärt AvandiUrsula RataseppHendrik Toompere Jr.Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
- DirectorMoonika SiimetsStarsHelena Maria ReisnerTambet TuiskYuliya AugIn 1950 the Soviets are trying to crush a budding resistance movement in the countryside of Estonia. A girl doesn't understand why her mother was arrested or why her father was upset when she cheered on the young pioneers as they marched.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsKaspar VelbergKristjan ÜkskülaMaiken PiusIn 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsVallo KirsPärt UusbergLauri PedajaAn average Estonian high-schooler decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
- DirectorAndres MaimikKatrin TegovaStarsMaris NõlvakGert RaudsepGetter MeresmaaCherry Tobacco is about a small-town girl, Laura, who is constantly bored. Her mother gets on her nerves, boys her age are stupid and everything anyone wants to do seems childish. One day Laura's energetic friend Merit invites her on a hike to a bog led by a middle-aged nature-lover called Joosep. The beginning of the trip is anything but promising: the relation- ship between the reserved girl and the outgoing Joosep, who tries to impress the hiking party with his hillbilly style and bizarre rituals, becomes tense. But much to her own surprise, Laura discovers that as the hike continues she is enchanted by the rugged charms of Joosep. The quest is coming to its irrefutable end and Laura has to decide whether a relationship with an older man is a mere step along the winding road towards becoming a woman or whether it is her very first love.
- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsAleksandr GoloborodkoIgrida AndrinaElza RadzinaA medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
- DirectorAndres MaimikRain TolkStarsGuido KangurRoman BaskinJüri VlassovKaiser, the lead singer of a former rock group won't put up with approaching old age and decides to call his old band members together. Kaiser's ambition is to return to the big stage with his buddies. Despite the initial resistance of other fellows, Kaiser will be successful, at least partly so. It is a fast-paced comedy full of humor and consolation, telling the story about people who despite all obstacles strive for their goal.
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorAntti J. JokinenStarsLaura BirnLiisi TandefeltAmanda PilkeA tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsJuhan UlfsakMirtel PohlaEva KolditsA small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsKatariina UntEvald AavikIvo Uukkivi1944, Estonia. An impending Russian invasion forces thousands to flee. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of autumn, she returns to the lighthouse manned by her father Gottfrid.
- DirectorTanel ToomStarsPriit LoogEster KuntuPriit VõigemastAndres settles in a new farm. With rose-tinted lenses, he sets out to transform the farm into a prosperous paradise - all he needs is a healthy harvest, cooperative neighbors and a son. But, life turns out to be cruel and treacherous.
- DirectorLauri RandlaStarsNiklas KouzmitchevNika SavolainenÜlle KaljusteA coming-of-age story of Johannes, who was born prematurely to a prematurely-single mother on the dramatic background of the collapsing Soviet empire.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsRain TolkTaavi EelmaaJuhan UlfsakA film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsRasmus ErmelMarko MatvereAarne SoroThe life of a young boy and his grandparents in small-town Soviet Estonia.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsArno LiiverRiina HeinAare LaanemetsSemi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsPriit VõigemastIndrek SammulHele KõrveThis movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).
- DirectorLiina TrishkinaStarsReimo SagorNora AltrovEmily ViikmanWhat would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it.
- DirectorErgo KuldStarsKarl Robert SaaremäeHenessi SchmidtFranz Malmsten"Where the Heart Is" is a passionate love triangle story between the young people of Paunvere.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsMargus LepaLiina TennosaarAnne ReemannIn the follow-up of "Kevade" and "Suvi" the same characters have reached their middle-age. Everybody are living quiet family-life but Kiir the tailor who one more time decides to become a farmer and get married.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsAare LaanemetsRiina HeinMargus LepaCharacters familiar from "Kevade" are now in their 20s. In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too.
- DirectorSulev NõmmikStarsLia LaatsErvin AbelRenate KarhuOn a nice summer day a funny little car rolls over a peaceful farm yard of Muhu island. The family that withdraws from the vehicle is quite odd-looking: an overbearing madam, a henpecked stammering husband and a mystical red-head. They announce that they want to spend their vacation in the farm ... "We are from capital, we will pay". This quiet vacation turns out to be a frantic day with romance, unexpected turns and fisticuffs between suitors.
- DirectorJaak KilmiStarsMärt PiusKarl-Andreas KalmetVeiko PorkanenAn upbeat comedy about three boys who escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
- DirectorTriin RuumetStarsHendrik Toompere Jr. Jr.Kait KallKristjan LüüsA young man trying to make sense of the world in the summer heat of late nineties Estonia.