Explore all films represented by Baltic crime

Sebastian, working as a store clerk, finds his ordinary workday shaken up when he meets Silo, a free-spirited wanderer. Together, they smoke weed and dream of a one-way ticket to Brazil. "This is a film about young people who don't know what to do with their lives," said the film's director, Meel Paliale. The dialogue and characters in the screenplay are based on many real-life situations and people.

In the early 1990s, in a working-class neighbourhood of Šiauliai, Lithuania, rebellious 17-year-old Rimants spends his days playing rugby, listening to Eurobeat, and hustling on the black market like everyone around him at that time. He is looking for a better life for himself. His best friend Minde shares the same belief that strength and money are the keys to success in this tough, fast-changing world. But when Rimants meets Monika, a cultured middle-class girl, he discovers a new universe of books, music, and ideas that challenge everything he knows. A humorous, nostalgic, and vibrant coming-of-age story capturing the spirit, slang, and energy of 1990s Šiauliai, showing the awkwardness and struggles of a teenager growing up.

IT specialist Taavi (Märt Pius) and his teacher wife Liisa (Steffi Pähn) are suddenly faced with a question of “what to do”, when one morning there’s an absurdly large sum of money in their bank account – no less than 50 million.

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.

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.

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.