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- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsMantas JanciauskasLyja MaknaviciuteAndrzej ChyraRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsPriit VõigemastIndrek SammulHele KõrveThis movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism).
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsMärt AvandiUrsula RataseppHendrik Toompere Jr.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 difficult choice.
- DirectorDiane PerelsztejnStarsSamuel BakLiliane Cordova KaczerginskiDavid E. FishmanThe moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states.
- DirectorArvo KruusementStarsArno LiiverRiina HeinAare LaanemetsSemi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s.
- 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).
- DirectorInara KolmaneLooking for truth through accounts and memories of the three main characters of WW II events that diverge between Jews, Latvians and Russians.
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsJaan KrossVello SaloSeptember is a film about the complicated choices of simple people. The internationally renowned Estonian author, Jaan Kross (1920-2007) was arrested in 1944 by the Nazis. A year after the Soviet forces entered Tallinn and he was arrested again. The accusation was the same both times: conspiracy with the underground independence revolutionaries. Based on the author's journal, pieces from his oeuvre and interviews, the film creates a story about a few monumental weeks in Tallinn, in September 1944.
- DirectorRené VilbreStarsÜlo JõgiIn 1943 the Finns set up an undercover radio intelligence group and send it to Estonia, which at the time is a part of Nazi occupied territory. When the Germans retreat the intelligence group falls into a trap of Soviet counterintelligence, betrayed by the Western allies, Finnish headquarters and their own men.
- DirectorMargus PajuStarsPriit VõigemastKaspars ZnotinsAgnese BudovskaA spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.
- DirectorMarija StonyteThree young girls decide to do military service on a voluntary basis after the conscription for men is reintroduced in Lithuania as a response to possible threats from neighboring Russia. The girls live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base for 9 months. By observing the physical and emotional transformation of our characters we witness the bearing of an independent woman, responsible for her own faith and happiness.
- DirectorMarian BushanStarsPavlo AldoshynMaryna KoshkinaAndrey MostrenkoAfter suffering a tragedy at the hand of invading soldiers in Donbas, an Ukrainian physics teacher seeks revenge. He sets his sights on an elite Russian sniper whose elimination could change the tide of the conflict.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsMakar TikhomirovVyacheslav DovzhenkoAndrey IsaenkoIt is a story of a several-week-long military duty in September 2014. A group of military volunteers comes to Donetsk Airport for the first time - the Airport has been held by Ukrainians for more than four months of war.
- DirectorTymur YashchenkoStarsDmitriy SovaEvgeniy LamakhRoman SemysalThe crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsMykola BerezaOleg ShulgaAleksandr MavritsIn 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of criminal leaders, treachery, and despair. Despite the repression of the prison-camp commander, Danylo finds the strength to resist and makes a desperate attempt to break free, sparking the first rebellion in the camp.
- DirectorRoman BrovkoStarsDmytro YaroshenkoDiana RozovlyanEvgeniya GladiyThis is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsDmitriy TuboltsevStanislav BzhezinskyiPetro MykytyukIn 2014 Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine turns hot. An engineer, actor, soccer coach and florist volunteer to fight on the front line. Unaware of the pivotal role they will play in the war, they discover the meaning of true leadership.
- DirectorMyroslav LatykStarsVasiliy KukharskiyOlga MakeevaVladimir YushchenkoUkraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.
- DirectorIvan TymchenkoStarsTaras KostanchukOleg DrachAleksandr MavritsBased on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle.
- DirectorOles SaninStarsStanislav BoklanJeff BurrellBoris GeorgievskiyAmerican boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-1930s Soviet Ukraine.
- DirectorTaras TkachenkoStarsTaras TsimbalyukPavel MoskalDaniil MireshkinBeing a full-blooded Ukrainian, Ivan possessed qualities such as courage, and the flow in his veins forced him to support a movement. Being a loving person, he cannot look the other way for what is happening in his hometown. He, along with like-minded people, begins a desperate fight for the freedom of his homeland and loved ones.
- DirectorGiedrius TamoseviciusVytautas V. LandsbergisStarsDonatas ZelvysDainius GavenonisIndre PatkauskaiteA talented poet who was expelled from the Lithuanian Soviet Writers' Union for his anti-Soviet literature is recruited by the NKVD, to establish contact with the partisans. In return he is promised a return to the elite of Soviet writers.
- DirectorAskolds SaulitisHistorical and chronological depiction of how formed the first volunteer Latvian Riflemen battalions and their battles in World War 1, Latvian war of independence and Russian civil war.
- DirectorAskolds SaulitisStarsAndris KeissHartmut LangeIvan ShvedoffThe chronological story of how newly freedom proclaimed Latvia secured it's freedom in Latvian war of independence in the most significant 1919 autumn period from Berlin puppet army from the west and Communist regime from the east.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis ReinisElita KlavinaGirts KruminsThe First World War is over. Martins, after many years spent in war abroad, returns to his bride Elza in Latvia. He does not realize that the decisive battle for the heart of Elza and for the newly founded Latvian state is yet to come.
- DirectorJonas OhmanVincas SruoginisStarsAndrius MamontovasDarius UdrysIn 1944, Soviet forces occupied Lithuania for a second time in less than five years. The Invisible Front tells the story of Lithuanian resistance and love between Luksa and Nijole .
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsAlyssa MilanoChad LoweGünther Maria HalmerCandles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that her father is part of the dissident anti-soviet underground. She soon find her self engulfed in the struggle with her father and a lot of new friends, and finds herself being hunted by the KGB.
- DirectorLauris AbeleRaitis AbeleStarsKaspars AninsKristaps BedritisLauma BalodeThese are religious rituals, magical and true, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles, our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe?
- DirectorAntoni BednarczykStarsAntoni RózanskiJan KarpowiczStanislaw JasienskiThe north-eastern Polish province of Vilnius is after WW1 plundered by savage Bolsheviks. The heroic Polish army is bound to stop them.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsAlgirdas BrazauskasMikhail GorbachevVytautas LandsbergisDocumentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union. Because of the peaceful protests with much singing, this period was later also called the 'singing revolution'. As one of the founders of the independence movement, Vytautas Landsbergis was at the heart of the historical upheaval. His incisive reflections are complemented by extensive archive footage of demonstrations, party congresses and the Soviet military intervention.
- DirectorKen GumbertLithuanian survivors of Soviet occupation post WWII tell how they survived and struggled against this formidable foe.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsKarlis Arnolds AvotsKristiana BerzaBaiba BrokaAn aspiring filmmaker tries to search for who he is against the backdrop of Latvian independence in this dark but dreamy coming-of-age story.
- DirectorJaak KilmiStarsMärt PiusKarl-Andreas KalmetVeiko PorkanenAn upbeat comedy about three boys who escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s to fulfill their dreams in the free world.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsBel PowleyLisa Loven KongsliMartin WallströmIn 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsMantas JankaviciusAgnia DitkovskyteTatyana LyutaevaA romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsAnastasija MarcenkaiteIgor SavochkinKseniya RappoportThe 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.
- DirectorDonatas UlvydasStarsIeva AndrejevaiteGabriele AnicaiteSaulius CiucelisEmilia.Breaking Free is a suspense drama about the fight for freedom in Soviet-repressed Lithuania - in a society where a more satiated life seems more important than honour, a clear conscience or humanity. It is the spring of 1972, when young people take to the streets of Kaunas to demand freedom for Lithuania, and Emilia - a future actress and the hero of this intriguing drama - is marching with the protesting crowd towards the life of their dreams. But everything takes an unexpected turn. Having come to Kaunas with what is perhaps the greatest secret of her life, Emilia has to fight not only for her own fate, but for that of her friends as well. And life in Kaunas is far from what she had dreamed of. She is not sure the lies, betrayal and the love that struck her like lightning will help her keep her secret or even her life. But she is prepared to take on anything for the sake of what she believes in.
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsSarunas MarciulionisArvydas SabonisRimas KurtinaitisThe incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and - with help from the Grateful Dead - triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
- DirectorMartti HeldeStarsLaura Peterson-AardamTarmo SongMirt Preegel"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?"
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
- DirectorDzintars DreibergsStarsOto BrantevicsGreta TrusinaMartins VilsonsAfter losing his mother and his home, Arturs finds some consolation in joining the army. However, war is nothing like he imagined.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsUldis DumpisGundars AbolinsMaija ApineSet in Riga, the capital of Latvia, the film tells a tragic love story before and during the Soviet invasion of Latvia in 1940 and the early stages of World War II.
- DirectorViesturs KairissStarsSabine TimoteoEdvins MekssIvars KrastsBased on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941.
- StarsIgors SelegovskisJuris ZagarsAurelija AnuzhiteHomeland love, spies and betrayal. On true events based drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation.
- DirectorKristine ZelveStarsDaiga KazocinaMarina JanausAt the end of the Second World War, when the German army retreated from Latvia, it also took along 700 boxes of materials from Latvian museums. If not for a young woman named Merija Grinberga, the exhibition halls of many museums in Latvia would be empty today. Grinberga was the only volunteer who in 1944 went along with the train carrying the treasures of Latvian art in order to return with them back to Riga. The German occupying forces tried to take them away; the Soviet occupation forces brought them back; Merija completed her duty. As gratitude for her journey, Merija was sacked from her job at the museum and incessantly viewed with suspicion.
- DirectorJuris PodnieksStarsJohn McAndrew
- DirectorJuris Podnieks
- A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
- DirectorMstyslav ChernovStarsMstyslav ChernovEvgeniy MaloletkaLiudmyla AmelkinaAs the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
- DirectorMaksim LitvinovIt follows the people who spent the first month of the invasion in the city of Mariupol.
- DirectorElmo NüganenStarsKaspar VelbergKristjan ÜkskülaMaiken PiusIn 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.
- DirectorAku LouhimiesStarsEero AhoJohannes HolopainenJussi VatanenA film adaptation of Väinö Linna's best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel's unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani.
- DirectorMoonika SiimetsStarsHelena Maria ReisnerTambet TuiskYuliya AugIn 1950 the Soviets are trying to crush a budding resistance movement in the countryside of Estonia. A girl doesn't understand why her mother was arrested or why her father was upset when she cheered on the young pioneers as they marched.
- DirectorLauri RandlaStarsNiklas KouzmitchevNika SavolainenÜlle KaljusteA coming-of-age story of Johannes, who was born prematurely to a prematurely-single mother on the dramatic background of the collapsing Soviet empire.
- DirectorOlesya MorgunetsStarsJanina RudenskaAndrey IsaenkoAlla BineevaChildren who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevStarsEvgeniy LamakhAndrey FedinchikNadiya KoverskaUkraine, 1918. As a Bolshevik army of about 4.000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers -about 300 of which are students- is resisting near the railroad station of Kruty. The clash between the opposite and unequal forces rages, with terrible fury. Young people, like Spartan soldiers, sacrifice themselves in a struggle against aggressors.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsGalina SulimaGeorgiy MorozyukAleksey GorbunovThis film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.
- DirectorJuris PodnieksPortrayal of rebellious teenagers growing up under Communist rule in Latvia.
- DirectorEdvins SnoreStarsJon StricklandVladimir BukovskyVladimir LeninThe Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.