Baltic | East Europe

Portrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.

Uldis goes to marry rich landlady's daughter Zane but he sees orphan Baiba in her backyard and falls in love with her. The restrained Baiba also loves Uldis but cannot become happy if Zane, Gatins and Orta suffers.

A group of men fishing in the icy lake Peipus (Estonia) find themselves trapped when the ice breaks away carrying them with it. As the ice breaks into smaller and smaller pieces the behavior of the men gets more desperate and class-driven.

A story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.

Una's aunt is not evil, she's just lonely. Wise little Marta, who longs for her puppy just as much as Una's aunt longs for a husband, decides to help.

The Svensson family lives in farm called Katthult in Sweden - father, mother, daughter Ida and son Emil. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him but the results are usually not what he initially wanted.

The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. The intriguing black-and-white is a contemporary retro tale about Cinderella's slipper, which, in this variation, is found on the beach in a border zone. Russian soldiers take on the role of the prince. But who is Cinderella?

A nine-year-old boy awaits the return of his sailor father, unaware that he is missing presumed drowned. The boy's mother starts an affair with a local woodsman, causing his wife to embark on a vendetta. Then the boy runs away.

A 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.

Police 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.

Kertu s life is totally spoiled by an overbearing father, until she opens her heart to an unlikely dream lover.

After being denounced as an outcast in school and frightened away from home by his mother's developing schizophrenia, there is no other way out for Johannes but to start improving his life by reforming himself.

Semi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s.

"Risttuules" is a very emotional, tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on the memories of Erna. It all started on June 14, 1941, when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to the train station and later by animal wagons to Siberia. "How to survive hunger, cold, humiliation, losing friends and freedom, but still keep living on, when almost all hope is lost?"

The story of a ten year old girl who escapes from a deportee train and goes on a 6000 km long journey back to her homeland.

The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown.

A 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.

In 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 façades 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.

A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.

17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.

The Hijacker forces the plane to land at the Riga Airport. 7-year old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional demands, the Hijacker adds the demands of the little hostage - beginning with some local chocolate and a self instruction tape for learning the native language, and ending with organizing a Song Festival and a special bi athletes performance - all ideas originating from a CD on Latvia. But someone decides to use Song Festival and bi athletes in solving the hostage crises.

Quiet 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.

A 17-year-old boy becomes a drug dealer and the decision that draws him into causes turbulent events he can't control.

A mature nurse helps a young patient to regain mental balance and male self-confidence. She brings him to one of the treatment rooms at night and cures him of his suicidal urges in the simplest of ways, for which she pays a heavy price.