“Lotte and Moonstone Secret” is a full length animation film about the adventures of the joyful dog girl Lotte and her friends in search for the mysterious Moonstone. In their exciting journey Lotte and Klaus meet many extraordinary characters, and each of these encounters teach Lotte something new about life.
Directed by: Heiki Ernits, Janno Põldma
Marta (8 years) and little Linda (4 years) need a nanny for a short period of time. Girls' parents have gone elsewhere to earn living for the family. Mother's sister Una is asked to come and take care of the girls. This summer Marta wants to get a puppy of her own. The plans of the mother's sister are even more ambitious. This summer she hopes to get finally wed. Both of them have found the candidates. Marta - the neighbours' puppy, but the aunt - jeweller Ivo. However, Una forbids Marta to even dream about the puppy… because she dislikes dogs. This is the begging of Marta's and Una's fight to see their dreams come true.
He fought in Afghanistan and went missing in action there. 21 years later he returns to Estonia to attend his father’s funeral. Estranged from the Western society and converted to Islam, his only bond to life there is the memory of his daughter, Angel, whose crying he believes he once, long ago, heard on the telephone. Ever since he has been writing letters to her into his dog-eared notebook. The town that used to be his home and where he begins to look for his daughter and his wife now feels like a ghostly and alien place. Slender young women dictate its life and rhythm, yet something has gone hopelessly astray in their lives. When the man whom they thought for years to be dead arrives, the women see him as someone who could resolve their troubles.
Cast: Tõnu Oja, Tiina Tauraite, Ragne Pekarev, Mirtel Pohla, Katariina Lauk
Directed by Sulev Keedus
Scriptwriter: Sulev Keedus
A business executive lays off hundreds of harbor workers after they go on strike. He and his wife plan to escape the stress by taking an Italian vacation. On the evening before the trip, one of the fired workers, dressed in an orange harbor worker safety jacket, slips into their home. Although his immediate actions reveal a murderous intent, revenge is only the initial step.
The director Elmo Nüganen has created a feature film about the events of war in Estonia in 1944. The action of "1944" spans from the Battle of Tannenberg Line in July to the occupation of the Sõrve peninsula by the Red Army at the end of November. The war is depicted through the eyes of Estonians fighting on either side, in the German army and in the Red Army.
The film DAWN heralds a morally confused world in the recent past – the Soviet era, when adults and children alike lost their bearings in the name of so-called ideals. Son betrayed father; father betrayed son.
Unfortunately DAWN is not only about the past, as the desire of totalitarian regimes to turn people into dull cogs-in-machines seems eternal – limited neither by time nor space.
Film in Latvian with subtitles in English.
Three guys escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s. Swedes welcome them as real heroes who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, dissidents discover that they've become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table they have to do something as lame as... work! So they come up with new crazy plans that should guarantee success in the Western world. That's when things go totally insane!
A condom found on an African beach is an impulse for a black man to set off on a dangerous sea journey to Europe, in search of a better life. Meanwhile, Villa Antropoff hosts a typical international wedding party which, with every drink and every drug fix, is becoming increasingly pretentious.
The oak tree in Seja is roughly 700 years old. Around this monumental tree, the peaceful and repetitive life goes on in the village, a group of houses in the middle of the forest. It is an almost unworldly existence in a condition of absolute simplicity where people are grateful for a hot cup of coffee and a good potato harvest.
The two sisters' parents have gone abroad to earn the living, so the girls Marta and Linda needs someone to take care of them. For that they have their dictatorial spinster aunt Una, who desperately wants to get married, and has a sympathy for the jeweler Ivo. Meanwhile, Marta is working hard to get a promised puppy, but her plans are ruined, as her aunt feels a strong despise for dogs. So, the relations between the girls and their aunt becomes really tense. Until the perfect plan of the sisters - to help the aunt to get married, to get rid of her.