Films

The daughter of a religious leader enters into a secret extramarital affair, which collapses her life arrangements. Years later, at a family wedding anniversary celebration, he receives a message that rips open old wounds.

Sebastian's workday is shaken up by an unexpected friendship. A film that follows youth as they figure out life in their twenties, dealing with uncertainties and searching for purpose. Film of the Year by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

After being abducted by aliens for 20 years, tough-guy Valdis returns to a hometown that’s nothing like he remembers. With his memory restored but the world transformed, his old friends Märt and Ott help him navigate the chaos, rediscover life’s joys, and make sense of his bizarre new reality in this time-lapse comedy-drama.

In a working-class neighbourhood of the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, in early 90-ies, brawny 17-year-old Rimants is playing rugby, listening to eurobeat and tries to earn some money on the black market - as nearly everyone at that time. His friend Minde does the same and they are practically sure, that physical strength and money are the essentials for success in this changing, competitive, capitalist society. But when Rimants meets and falls in love with the beautiful, middle class Monika, he is introduced to a new world of literature, culture and alternative possibilities which he explores with guarded enthusiasm. A portrait of a 90’ies generation with a lot of humour, music and the special slang of Šiauliai.

Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the “Wild West” of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious castles of German nobility that have sworn allegiance to the Czar, and to the depths of ancient for- ests where witchcraft is still practiced. Juhan is fighting crime and his own inner demons. He is considered mad and pronounced crazy. But by standing for justice and truth, at the end of the day, he is the sanest of them all.

Under the pressure of meeting the expectations of film school, twin filmmakers Raul and Romet attempt to make a movie that will be their path to fame and glory. Everything gets more difficult when one of the brothers falls in love. It is a story about brotherhood, childhood and growing up through the eyes of twins.