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Little bird Pippo fell behind the flock of birds. Lotte decides to go after a flock to take Pippo to relatives. Together with her dad Oscar, inventor, who has just invented a flying machine, and old traveler Klaus.
Current anthropological anima-doc focusing on the world’s cultural heritage, one of the most “vital” and tangible outputs – the cemetery architecture. Film attempts to capture everything related to the traditions of commemorating the deceased in Europe over the past 5,000 years and creates a pseudo-life with the help of the magic of anima technique hyperlapse.
Tallinn winter scenes.
An Estonian dance movie.
The story of superhero Donatella Privada from birth to rebirth
Unustatud rahvad (1970 - 1989) by Estonian composer Veljo Tormas is based upon six Balto-Finnic peoples traditions. Collegium Musicale choir brought the songs to different sides of Baltic coasts to liven current citizens connections for fleeting past and strengthen their identity.
The director's parents Tiina and Ülo have saved more stuff in their home throughout the years than they have space to live. Useless piles of clothes, old newspapers and dishes block the way to the dinner table or bed. This is a story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.
A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.
Documentary about man's place in society based on life of Georg, Peeter, Arto.
Tells the story of the challenging second journey of Estonia's first space project from research laboratories to space.
This is a story about the responsibility our heads of state have to nature. Money and power will make a person so greedy, until they don’t realize the damage it has done to nature.
Tartu is a city in southern Estonia, whose streets and walls are awash with colorful pictures and thought-provoking messages. Who are the mysterious shadows lurking around at night with spray cans, and why do they do what they do? CANVASCITY is a story of Tartu street art through the eyes of its two most prominent rebels - MinaJaLydia and Edward von Lõngus.
Tim plans revenge on the judge who sentenced his innocent brother for murder. Waiting for a suitable opportunity, the young man hides in an abandoned church on the judge's land. One day, Tim's hiding place is discovered by a strange girl, Good. The two young people thirsting for love find a partner in each other.
A stand-up production by Peeter Oja, Erik Moora, Mart Normet and Monoteatri. Jamast is moving across Estonia like a new popular movement. Peeter Oja is standing as a candidate for mayor of every rural municipality and every city. Jetzt Tõesti Aitab Jamast is a sign of a new era on the Estonian entertainment scene, timeless, topical and, in a good way, striking. A text created for a one-off nationwide tour. Peeter Oja is coming to the audience to pull off the masks and to talk and show the Estonian people what goes on in the bowls of politics and in the politician's head.
Middle-aged perfectionist Virve has made sure that her mother's 80th anniversary party goes exactly as planned, but suddenly her niece Silvia appears at the party with a surprise guest.
Sitting alone in a cattle wagon full of people, a lonely boy finds new hope through a fleeting smile from a girl, and he does everything he can to make contact with the stranger.
As every evening, the Ghost goes to work – to haunt and frighten. Even in his worst nightmares the Ghost hadn’t imagined he’ll meet such a ‘terrifying’ girl who is not afraid of him. But it happened...
Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate relationship with the world that writers expose. So when we keep our poets in a special house and observe them like we watch animals in the zoo, listen how they shout and howl their poetry, we are partly freed from our everyday identity and become romantic poetry desperadoes too. Take a closer look at Estonian writers in their private zoo. Their revolts and vanity, philosophy and drinking life style. Cheap accommodation is a way to escape, but it can be a trap too.
Andrus Tammemäe's adventure with a rhinoceros.
The Cat Orchestra performs "Concert for Carrot Pie". Grandma decides to bake a carrot pie and sends grandfather and her granddaughter to bring carrots from the field.
A short experimental film by the legendary punk group Päratrust, inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
A photographer is too proud to take money from a friend, but accepts a deal instead.
Fecalist Erkki, portaloo renter Toomas and sewage plant expert Andra are active and cheerful Estonian people who have chosen a profession that is usually considered dirty, shameful and which none of us would dream of in childhood. At the same time, absolutely all people need the work of these people in modern times. The toilet is still a taboo subject, and people feel embarrassed and falsely ashamed even when talking about satisfying their natural needs. The film follows how Erkki, Toomas and Andra have turned faecal work into their own business, livelihood and profession.
A young man decides to break in to the hospital, when he is told he cannot go see his sick little sister due to new laws that have been passed in response to a pandemic.
A young and attractive woman, Sandra, inherits an old house in the countryside from her aunt, Wildemar. The house is located in a beautiful nature environment, and there is only one neighbor living close by. Sandra has planned to sell the house, but before that, she decides to spend there one last weekend, just to relax and get some fine photos for the upcoming house add. But the short vacation doesn’t go as planned. It turns out that her new neighbor, Albert, who at first seems really friendly, starts to show weirdly increasing interest towards her.
This animated short looks at the relationships between humans and other living creatures where life can be more diverse and sometimes more unexpected than it first appeared. The film is about the individual's right to choose his or her own path in a complex world.
Valeria Anderson's fourth documentary is a dramaturgically and conceptually complete visual-musical work comparable with the best British industrial documentaries of that era. The strict frame sequence gives a figurative overview of the birth of reinforced concrete wall panel.
The age-old icebreaker Suur Tõll has lived a long life, having survived wars, storms, wounds, having honestly served five countries under different names, now he is forced to work as a museum in the harbor of Tallinn.
A humorous mockumentary set in 2007 Estonia for all the nostalgic viewers who were fans of reality tv shows at the time. The story follows an amateur reporter looking to find a cool story for his brand new TV show. His thirst for fame brings him face to face with an ancient Estonian mythological being, desperate for answers. It’s dangerous and stupid and even weird at times, but you know what they say: the show must go on!
Portrait of a rebel expat Estonian filmmaker Vladimir Karasjov-Orgusaar.
Documentary about actor Arvo Kukumagi.
Sunny, a young skater from a small village, dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder and escaping the place he once called home. Society puts an end to his dream.
In the midst of the most horrid stagnation era in the Soviet Union – at the end of October 1982 – the Monk (Ivo Uukkivi), Allan Vainola, Peep Männil, and Villu Tamme gather for band practice in a room above the garage of a private house in Pääsküla and form one of the most (politically) heavyweight punk bands in history – Velikiye Luki. For the 60th jubilee of the Soviet Union, Ivo and Villu bake a voodoo ginger cookie and while they gobble it down, they demonstratively establish their programme of action: to destroy the Soviet Union.
Archive-based documentary that follows Arnold Rüütel's activities during the period of 1971-1992. This era included the new wave of Russification policies, perestroika and Estonia regaining its independence. In order to stay alive and be successful during these times one had to be flexible and adaptable.
The film is a memory of the author’s childhood. “It is a rainy summer day and the whole earth is wet from the rain. No one goes outside except one little girl who wants to water the apple tree because that's what she does every day. As she walked with her red rubber boots and yellow watering can, she also noticed various apples that seemed to be dripping from the heavy rain. She approached the tree and watered it with great love, even though she came back drenched and with a watering can full of rain.” The apples symbolize all the dancers who appear on the screen. Like every apple, every dancer has a history, special look, and style.
How would a clown react if he felt threatened? The problems between Beto and his father are settled on the circus stage. Eno is a Circus's clan leader. The circus is in trouble and Eno receives the visit of Beto who comes to help out. The problem is that Eno and Beto can't exist in the same room. Eno is Beto’s mentor and his father, but above all, Eno is a clown.
Ramon gets off early from work and something is going on at home.
This is the first fiction movie filmed in Estonia, although there is some disagreement whether it can be considered the first Estonian movie, as the names of some of the vital authors, such as the director, are currently not known.
Liina has been planning for several years to unpack the artworks that have accumulated in her storage over time and document them. When she finally takes on this task, she encounters her own works, revealing to us the background of her art, social realities, and various ways of navigating society as a woman.
Mermaids and humans have crossed paths throughout millennias.Their generally peaceful coexistence is described in naiadological literature, as well as in the folklore of many nations. Our mermaid people are poetic and mysterious - we meet these gentle and femininely charming creatures in nature and in the everyday life around us. The film follows the principles of scientific lyricism, and takes the viewer through the history of naiadology and introduces the main types of mermaids. The mermaids were captured in beautiful places in Estonian waters.
With the onset of the Russian invasion, Erko resolves to help in Ukraine as a volunteer medic. And yet the longer his mission goes on, the more removed he grows from his family back in Estonia. An Estonian perspective on the war in Ukraine and the burden that volunteers have to shoulder in its shadows.
In the first week of February in 2005 the mailboxes of those belonging to the art world got the following message: "The most famous Estonian metal girl group F.F.F.F will quit! After their last performance held in Ireland, January 2005, group F.F.F.F. (members: Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Berit Teeäär, Ketli Tiitsar and Maria Valdma) decided that there was no point of continuing the same way." The documentary portrays the artists who belonged to the group F.F.F.F (Fun for Five Females) that was active for almost ten years as well as opens up the reasons for their breakup. As it goes for every divorce, there is going to be lots of talking and confused feelings.
Film about Giufa, the spoon, who is lucky to find a great treasure.
Documentary about building the large hotel Viru as Soviet Union / Finland cooperation.
It's a mysterious story about a black stork, some frogs and a terrible danger lurking deep in the Estonian swamps.
Documentary about the work of the Estonian cartoonist and animation director Priit Pärn
An experimental documentary about the process of opening up to oneself and others. An old actor is trying not to act. How to be yourself?
A young traveler unravels the truth of his past on an epic, poetic journey across the northern landscape uncovering artifacts and tales of his forgotten ancestors.
The documentary film „Touched by the Ocean“ tells a story of a man who has loads of willpower, a big heart and is crazy enough to swim from Europe to Africa in order to cross the punishing Strait of Gibraltar. All that for a good and gallant cause.
"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the shooting of the documentary "The Winds of the Milky Way". The Nganasan Shaman Demnime (1913-1980) was 64 years old at the time. The documentary about Demnime's incarnation ritual was completed 20 years later. The fifth and final documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Uricarum" series.
"Sunrise" delves into the depths of the human soul, where traditional notions of good and evil dissolve into the infinite diversity of subjective perception. The film tells the story of a young girl, Iris, who grew up in a 20th-century Estonian Christian family. Driven by a thirst for love and a longing for material beauty, she commits a minor crime that becomes the catalyst for an internal struggle and a reevaluation of her former moral principles. This act inevitably leads to a profound conflict: as she reflects on everything she knew about Christianity, God, and morality, a question arises… What place do her desires hold within the dogmatic frameworks she once accepted? The second important character, a boy named Knut, grew up in a troubled family under the tyranny of a cruel father. Yet, despite retaining love for his mother, he is tormented by emotions accumulated from years of endured brutality. Upon encountering Iris’s impoverished family, he finds a way to release his anger…
Avoiding responsibilities, men run to the ice cream van. Meanwhile women scream. But the daily routine pattern breaks because the Old Lady dies. Fortunately the Priest finds a fish. … happy end.
The filmmaker follows a girl, Roosi, for 10 years from age 8-18. She grew up as the child of an activist. She struggles to cope with climate grief and guilt. Roosi is torn between the path of activism and that of creativity and teenage ecstasy, while her complex and often tense relationship with her parents unravels. Struggling to find her place in the world, she navigates uncharted landscapes, revealing unlikely facets of contemporary cosmopolitanism through the eyes of a generation coming of age in an increasingly fluid reality.
The work explores the transgender body in transition through the alternative photographic process Mordançage. The mordançage, using its tremendous chemical pressure alters the silver gelatine prints, causing them to undergo slow, gradual transformation. The tissue of the body and of the print breaks and a new life, new forms are born.
How much we actually fall for and are influenced by opinions. How much of what I do is what I actually want and how much do I do for norms and a sense of belonging – do a lot and stand out! Work! Work! Work! Then you are good and worthy of recognition!?
Documentary covering three years in the life of composer Arvo Pärt.
An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.