01
The Silent Mountain
Why this pick
Like Tangerines, it finds fragile human connection across wartime loyalties, using an isolated rural setting and restrained, compassionate tension rather than battlefield spectacle.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2013 1h 27m EST
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Tangerines
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
If you loved Tangerines, try these.
01
02
No Man's Land
Why this pick
A tightly contained Balkan-war moral standoff, balancing bitter absurdity with escalating suspense and sympathy for people trapped behind opposing identities.
03
Land of Mine
Why this pick
Its postwar Danish setting turns former enemies into an uneasy, intimate group dynamic, with the same plainspoken humanity and mounting ethical pressure.
04
The Ascent
Why this pick
A stark, wintry war drama whose austere landscapes and close attention to conscience echo Tangerines' grave, deeply humane view of conflict.
05
The Patrol
Why this pick
This intimate drama observes soldiers and civilians in a conflict zone with unshowy realism, emphasizing moral uncertainty and interpersonal tension over action.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a rural village of ethnic Estonians in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed separatist region in the newly independent Georgia (country), Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) and his friend Margus (Elmo Nüganen) are the only two of their once large community who have not fled for Estonia after the outbreak of the War in Abkhazia (1992–93). Margus has delayed leaving until he can harvest his lucrative tangerine crop. Ivo, a carpenter, is attempting to make enough wooden crates to hold all the unpicked tangerines, but doesn't reveal his reasons for staying.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Elmo Nüganen
Margus