Georg
Georg is a 2007 biography drama film about Estonian singer Georg Ots. It was directed by Peeter Simm and written by Mati Põldre and Alexander Borodyansky. They used interview material from Georg Ots’ second wife Asta Ots. The film stars prominent Estonian actor Marko Matvere, Russian actress Anastasiya Makeyeva and Latvian singer Renārs Kaupers. The […]
Year of the Wolf
Sari is a talented literature student who outwardly looks like controlled and confident self. Women envy the beautiful and intelligent Sari, men admire from afar for the same reasons. However, there is a beast lurking inside Sari that isolates her from the rest of the world. Sari suffers from epilepsy, a dreaded, often mysterious disease. […]
9th Company
The events of the film take place between 1988 and 1989, when Soviet troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan. Two eighteen-year-old youths meet each other in the barracks. Both boys have signed up as volunteers for “operation in Afghanistan” and both have their own reasons. They are sent to a training camp from where they are […]
FC Venus
Anna (Minna Haapkylä) and Pete (Petteri Summanen) are a newlywed couple in love. Both are crazy about each other and the future looks bright. The only shadow in the relationship is Pete’s hobby: Pete plays soccer in the seventh division, a miserable but overzealous team. Men only play, watch and think about football. Anna, on […]
Mother of Mine
Mother of Mine is the story of the fate of a little boy in the middle of a warring world. War breaks out and 9-year-old Eero’s father goes to the front. Even though the father promises Eero that the war will soon be over, nothing will be the same again – just a little while […]
Promise
The promise is the story of three young women who, when the war breaks out, decide to join the Lotta-Svärd Association. Anna ends up in air traffic control, Mona in veterinary medicine and Ruth in the field hospital. Each of them receives training for their task, but cannot fully prepare for war. None of them […]
Land of Love
Tuomas Linna is doing research for his dissertation on the treatment of foreigners in Finland. For the field research, he borrows the identity of his friend, Ingush man Omar Ghaala. Disguised as Omar, Tuomas meets and falls in love with Hanne, who teaches Finnish to immigrants. Hanne also falls in love with Omar, and Tuomas […]
Pearls and Pigs
The Hirvonen family, four brothers and father-Ukko, live in Joensuu’s Rantakylä and run a small-scale business: “Dark liquor and little salt”. One day, a full load of booze is destroyed down to the last bottle, and the Hirvonen family fall heavily into debt to the local thugs, Sia and Limppu. In order to keep their […]
Mosku – The Last of His Kind
The film tells the true story of the lord of the northeastern wilderness, the reindeer emperor and the terror of the reindeer bandits, Mosku, who lived in Lapland in the early 20th century. (Aleksi from Hihnavaara) Mosku is a tough-minded forest guerrilla who learned the skills of the group early on from his father. Already […]
Names Engraved in Marble
The First World War has ended. The Russian and German empires have broken up, the Soviet Union has been established and Estonia has become independent. In November 1918, the Red Army attacks Estonia, despite its peaceful speeches. The Estonian government announces a general motion, but to no avail. Those invited do not line up. The […]