Maria Avdjuško Movies

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...

The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and...

In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good...

After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's...

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in...

Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seems that he has to wait forever. One day an alien...

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

The film based on Eno Raua's stories "Päris kriminnene lugu" and "Telepathic lugu" takes the viewer to a summer town in Estonia, where boys and...

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

The Soviet Union teeters on the verge of collapse in 1990 and tiny Baltic nations struggle to take back their independence. A rising tide of public...

Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion,...

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati...

Candles 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...

On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation...

After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother...

Maria Avdjushko’s documentary Good People offers a heartfelt look into the work of the Hille Tänavsuu Cancer Treatment Foundation...

A lot has happened in a quarter of a century, but the Salmons have remained who they were - Estonia's first family, who have been viewed with both...

A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him...

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married Russian nurse taking care of him.

Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only...