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- DirectorVasili MassStarsAurelija AnuzhiteLiubomiras LauceviciusAlgirdas PaulaviciusA young woman agrees to model for an artist as Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.
- DirectorAivars FreimanisStarsAkvelina LivmaneIvars KalninsLives of two young people change after they fall in love.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaA documentary film crew arrive at a Latvian garbage dump to investigate reports of a giant mutated worm living in the garbage. When the worm story proves to be a myth, rather than waste their trip, they decide to film the dump itself. Far from being a lifeless wasteland, the dump proves to be home to a multitude of birds and animals and a handful of people, all struggling to survive in an endless cycle of death, decay and rebirth. Insects and snakes, beavers and deer, men and machines play out their roles against the backdrop of an expanse of gently steaming garbage which, thanks to deft camera work, at times seems surreally beautiful.
- DirectorFred KelemenStarsEgons DombrovskisNikolay KorobovVigo RogaMatiss Zelcs is trying to find woman which he did ignore and who was about to jump off the bridge last night. Police don't want to continue investigation as no body was found, however Matiss is on his way to start his own investigation.
- DirectorDevin HoranA document of a landscape and its inhabitants near the Latvia-Russia border.
- DirectorUldis BraunsBiruta VeldreLaima ZurginaAn emotional and visually attractive portrait of timeless moments in human life. 235 000 000 was made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. Without any commentary, allowing images to speak for themselves to music.
- DirectorTheodor LutsStarsArnold VainoJuhan NõmmikRuut TarmoThe film depicts the adventures of three students who enlist in the war when their small country is invaded by the Russian Bolshevists during the Estonian war of independence (1918-1920).
- DirectorSulev NõmmikStarsAnts LauterEndel PärnLeo NormetA group of sleepless nerds should be taken into sanitarium for hard-therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. Suddenly turns out that the nurses have kidnapped the men and are about to give them the only useful medicine they need - fresh air and work. But the patients decide to disobey. There's only one solution - to escape. The film is absolute cult in Estonia.
- DirectorGrigori KromanovStarsUldis PucitisJüri JärvetLembit PetersonPolice gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.
- DirectorVirve AruojaJaan ToomingStarsJaan ToomingAmong Tooming's filmic works, Endless Day provides perhaps the most eloquent material for investigating the radical renewal of visual and narrative form, as well as the shifting registers of spatio-social portrayals and critiques in Estonian cinema.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsEvald AavikMait MerekülskiÜlle TomingQuiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.
- DirectorSulev KeedusStarsKatariina UntEvald AavikIvo Uukkivi1944, Estonia. An impending Russian invasion forces thousands to flee. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of autumn, she returns to the lighthouse manned by her father Gottfrid.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsRain TolkTaavi EelmaaJuhan UlfsakA film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsTaavi EelmaaRavshana KurkovaTiina TauraiteA mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsLina BraknyteValeriy ZubarevBronius BabkauskasMovie about a friendship of two children - a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday.
- DirectorAlgirdas DausaAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsRegimantas AdomaitisJuozas BudraitisRegina PaliukaityteThe Second World War is ending. Widower Kasparas moves in with his brother Andrius, who lives on the other side of the bay where the German occupation has already ended. Andrius' wife Egne is still in love with Kasparas. Her relatives and a group of Lithuanian nationalists are planning on fleeing to Sweden. Egne persuades her husband that they should all go together, hoping to once again regain Kasparas' affection after crossing the sea. But Kasparas opts to return home and border guards detain Andrius. Nine long years pass before the brothers see each other again.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsJurate OnaityteAntanas SurnaVidas PetkeviciusStory set in a Baltic fishermen's settlement at the turn of the 20th century. The film's heroine keeps losing one husband after another, but there's always someone from the family to come and take care of her children and her house.
- DirectorSharunas BartasThe film is a day in the life that passes by, even if it seems neverending.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsYekaterina GolubevaRimma LatypovaArunas SakalauskasIn Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsDaiva KsivickieneMantvydas JaneliunasViacheslav AmirhanianThe atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsAlex DescasYekaterina GolubevaPiotr KishteevSilent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsFrancisco NascimentoValeria Bruni TedeschiAlex DescasA ramshackle mansion in the woods: individuals of all type, age and condition eat, roam or rest inside. But always in strict silence.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsValentinas MasalskisFatima EnnaflaouiAxel NeumannTwo men and a woman are stranded in the Moroccan desert after a failed smuggling trip.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsDmitriy PodnozovRita KleinAleksandre SaulovA group of drop-outs, losers and criminals are travelling in a stolen Mercedes seemingly aimlessly along numerous derelict houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old decaying state farm in Crimea, the southern tip of the former Soviet Union, where the mother, wife and daughter of one of them live. The men kill time with smoking, drinking and staring in front of them, but an undercurrent tension is brewing. On the last night they have a party that is equally destructive as their life.
- DirectorRaimundas BanionisStarsAugustas SavialisGabija JaraminaiteJurate OnaityteRebellious Lithuanian teenagers in early 1970s are immensely influenced by Western culture, especially Radio Luxembourg, the Rolling Stones and Woodstock. After taking part in a hippie camp at the seaside, problems start to ensue.