Stories Set in Estonia

After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip she is put against a mother who…

Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt who neglects her. Lilja hangs out with her friends Natasha and Volodya who is suicidal. Desperate…

An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class.

In a poor Estonian village a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

Estonia 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.

At the height of the Cold War a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.

Fleeing from the Russian secret police a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a…

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia she lives alone in an isolated house. One night she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has…

This droll tale of longing and awkward romance follows two misfits - a coffee addict and a vodka-soaked mechanic - as they hit the road in their Soviet-built Volga. Along the way they manage to pick up two women the…