Magnus 2008
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Sauna Day invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.
Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Paul's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in the gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case. Based on the novel "The Glass Key" by Dashiell Hammett.
If you’ve put a cast on a broken bone, do you then wonder why you can’t just spring to your feet and dash off? It turns out it’s the same with swinging - more precisely, with hoping that a little (but never entirely innocent) partner-swapping will magically solve all your relationship problems.
The action takes place in post-World War II Estonia. An old man lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young neglected boy, who has become mute, is banished from the mainland and sent to the island to keep the old man company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about the years before World War I he spent as a young missionary in Africa
Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choices in the name of her true love, home, and the continuation of life.
A life is difficult even for children during the forties in Estonia...
Legendary Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov's book "The Compromise" was published at the time of the author's emigration in USA and describes the period that Dovlatov himself has called "Interior emigration" - that is the years that he spent in Tallinn, Estonia as a journalist (1972-1976). The documentary interviews the prototypes of the book, including Dovlatov's former colleagues and friends who comment on the literary work. They share background information that helps to interpret both Dovlatov's destiny as well as the essence of the Soviet era.
The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself. Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944.
A mixture of popular stories are reversed and adapted to the Barbie universe. Queen Tiina (that's what these Barbies are called) asks who is the most beautiful in the city of Las Tiinas and someone dares to say that there is someone more beautiful than her. Immediately afterwards, Queen Tiina decides to kill the beautiful doll, who ends up in the sewers surrounded by forgotten toys (such as a melancholic Pinocchio and a charming rag doll).
Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled.
A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The action of the films takes place in the 1930s in Estonia.
In a marathon running, a criminal hides among the runners, after blowing up a statue in the central square.
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back.
When the doorbell rang late night during the Soviet times, if was often the sign of military recruitment. The chain of events in the film begins from the fatal ring at the door, putting the marriage of a young photographer and his beautiful wife to the test. Being afraid of the army, the young family try to escape the situation. However, they are drifting away from freedom.
A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.
A gang of five children spend their summer in an abandoned factory complex. When they are forbidden to go there by the factory owner for safety reasons, the children decide to ignore the ban. This decision changes their lives forever and the friends face a grim confrontation.
Freak inventor Jaan's far fetched dreams about ascending to the clouds are about to materialize when he's joined by the great Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci's spirit. Instead, Jaan's wife Lisa, neglected by the crazy genius, gets metamorphosed into a winged creature and is "catapulted" into the blue skies, where dreams meet.
A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation homogeneous for a long time, but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
In Kalamaja, Estonia, two couples—Olli and Sofi, and Moonika and Jan—find their relationships tested by love, trust, and the unpredictable nature of being in your 20s. As Olli struggles with the weight of her parents' disapproval, cracks begin to form in her once-idyllic romance with Sofi. Meanwhile, a sexual health scare throws Moonika and Jan into uncertainty, pushing Moonika to seek comfort in unexpected places—including a chaotic speed dating event. As tensions rise and hard truths come to light, both couples must decide—will facing reality bring them closer or tear them apart for good?
Süü is a family drama exploring the themes of retribution, justice, guilt and forgiveness. Gripping, paced and tense, the series leaves a lot of open questions until the final reveal.
A series of four young women of very different characters who are complete opposites of the worldview. Due to the twists and turns of life, they have to live under one roof.
Baltic Robinson was a popular television show that aired in the Baltic region of Europe from 2000 to 2004 and was the first pan regional edition of Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. During its five-year run, the show was hosted by Emil Rutiku for Estonian, Vytautas Kernagis for Lithuanian and Pauls Timrots for Latvian audience. Due to the show's success, at least one contestant, Kristine Koļadina, was given her own spin-off show which aired and was popular with viewers in her home country of Latvia. The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.
A family with two smart twin boys has lived in the most amazing places in the world and tried to fit in as locals while surviving in Siberian ecovillage of a religious leader Vissarion, setting up a yurt village in China, building unlikely friendships in Australia and now trying to fit in Muslim community in Iran.
TV host Tuuli Roosma decides to leave her comfortable life behind and follow her filmmaker husband Arbo Tammiksaar to a remote Siberian eco-village to live among a cult community lead by a religious leader Vissarion. They move to Siberia with their 3-year-old twin boys to spend a year fully off grid.
TV host Tuuli Roosma takes his family - a documentary director Arbo Tammiksaar and their twin boys Andres and Kristjan - to live in People's Republic of China. They try to fit in as locals, learn mandarin Chinese and help set up a yurt village in Yunnan province. The inevitable culture crash is a basis for a situational comedy. The 5-year talkative twin boys add to daily fun.
Estonian dating reality show in which young men and women all move into a beach house with the hope of finding romance.
This story is about drawing dashes. The dashes are pulled down, the dashes are pulled on, and the dashes are pulled on the doorknob to see how much these children have grown again. How does this growing up work? And why doesn't it always work?
The sailing ship Admiral Bellingshausen is on its way towards the Arctic to bring the Estonian flag as close to the North Pole as possible.
The sailing ship Admiral Bellingshausen sets off from Sillamäe Harbour towards the Arctic to take the Estonian flag as close to the North Pole as possible. On the one hand, the team is faced with anticipation for the exotic polar regions; on the other hand, they are fearful since they are embarking on this adventure in the conditions of the pandemic. Expedition leader and host Tiit Pruuli; director and operator Christian Johannes Kask.
The huge, scary Atlantic calls to the crazy few who dare sail it. An unforgettable, life-shaking adventure awaits.