Comedies from the Baltics

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mart is a tough no-nonsense farmer who likes things the way they’ve always been, loves his daughters and despises the locals. Meaning son-in-laws have to come from elsewhere. When he announces to Miina and Leena the “great news” that they shall be married to their wealthy cousins Enn and Jaak, it makes perfect sense to Mart, but no sense to his daughters. Especially with their own secret suitors, farm hand Joosep and miller’s son Juhan, in the picture. A plan is made to force unwanted guests to leave, no matter the cost. Even if it means Joosep and Juhan camouflaged and Miina and Leena, giving their worst to paint a picture of the living nightmare a marriage with such “faulty brides” would bring.