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Nora’s Sisters is a video that combines archive photos of Kreenholm Textile Manufacture (Narva, Estonia) and a voice over text from the play „What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband or Pilars of Society“ by Elfriede Jelinek.
Pirkko Fihlman was only a child when she had to flee her home in Karelia. Later, she began exploring her family's old tradition of crafting lamentations; creating cries for people in different circumstances. After a few decades, Fihlman started holding courses on the topic, which many people have found healing, and helping some connect with their old Karelian roots.
Shot over a single day — after learning of the death of her grandfather, documentary director Katrina Lehismäe and her family take a road trip across a frozen Estonia in the middle of winter to the small town where he lived to take care of his affairs and start to come to terms with their own grief. An intimate portrait of bereavement, life and what is left after it has departed.
A thriller short film about two teenagers bound by a bizarre obsession with a Geocaching hobby, navigate the treacherous social minefield of teenage life.
More than anything, I want to rise into the air with you and share an arena – this could describe the choreography of Latvian dancers Artūrs Nīgalis and Mārīte Supe, where nearly two lifetimes are danced out. In the Riga Circus building, opened in 1888 and now reconstructed, endless longing, tears, emotionally charged equilibristics, truth, and duality revolve. Have our relationships also reached a circus-like amplitude? Estonian director Pulk seems to have found the answer to that.
Homecoming is a two-track visual poem following Akio Yuguchi’s journey back into his childhood and his quest for coming to terms with living abroad far from his former home. Facing up to past and future challenges, the protagonist decides to send a letter of condolence to his father, who lives in Japan in a high-risk area for earthquakes and tsunamis. Through the rhythm of his reflective soliloquy, the desire for homecoming sounds a bell for the departed while heralding the dawn of a new life.
An exploration of the city of Sillamäe, During the Soviet period, from 1944 until Estonia’s independence in 1991, Sillamäe was a secret and closed town built to house Russians scientists and workers who would extract uranium and do nuclear research.
When 6-year-old Mandy learns that her father is a drag queen, she takes it as a positive surprise. However, her mother wants them to move out of the house and start a new life. Always positive, Mandy finds this difficult to understand and sees the world from her own perspective.
The story of an exhibition piece in a museum that belongs to Natalia, who came from the Udmurt Republic, and now works at the Estonian National Museum. She tells a story how it feels when some of the exhibited items in the museum once belonged to a person she knew. Bringing into light the connections between memory, materiality and cultural identity - exploring the seeming dichotomy of artefacts and living stories. The film is in Udmurt language.
Like every year, the swifts are returning to their homes in the "sleeping districts". This time, they don't find any humans. The space is filled with spirits.
A karakat is an unsinkable vehicle that every self-respecting resident of the Peipus shore assembles with his own hands. Originally intended to drive the owner to a fishing spot in the winter, today the karakat has become a unique “ice-taxi.” By observing several karakat-men’s routines, we aim to portray a fascinating culture of old-believers, self assembled hybrid vehicles and ice fishing in this part of Estonia.
Documentary about two Estonian Forest Brothers, Ülo and Aivar Voitka, who ran from soviet recruitment and went on to live in underground bunkers for 14 years. They were captured in 2000, and their punishment became a controversial topic.
We are standing in front of the old theater in Narva. It is still winter and snowing. An old man comes out of one of the theater doors and speaks to us in a deep, warm voice in Russian. We only understand his gestures. We don't know his name, so we call him Vassili, like the great old theater.
The film is about Tartu and its enormous capacity for innovation over the decades. Tartu vs Tallinn characterizes the theme of the film that tells the story of how the Western world came to Estonia.
Three women, unrelated to each other, live their usual day. Anya is getting ready for her prom. Lena spends her day at work managing plumbers and janitors. Pensioner Lyudmila preaches the Word of God. Only subtle visual parallels connect the heroines of the film. They are somewhat similar to each other. An action begun by one seems to be completed by another. Step by step, from dawn to dusk, from youth to old age. And a lived day turns into a lived life.
You don't have to know someone for long to feel their mark on your life. Sometimes all it takes is a few minutes or an hour to make a difference. Even those who pass through our lives only for a short time can later turn out to be as important as the loved ones we meet every day. Success doesn't always depend on how long someone is with us, but rather on the mark they leave.
Creation connects not only time and like-minded people but also the seemingly unconnected ones. Striving for a common goal or allowing non-targeted hits, we create bridges between worlds. “I came to visit you yesterday and... I will cherish tomorrow's memories.” Does living another day prove I can see the future?
The Green Bangers are two police agents, Peeter Apple and Ruuter Frog, who solve the most complex mysteries. They always wear green clothes. Their boss is Colonel Kaater Cream. This time their mission is to solve the theft of Mr. Masbadageritaferdinandinovich’s safe, the value of which reaches millions. During the investigation, suspicious circumstances and family ties come to light but no mystery is too difficult for the Green Bangers. Chases ensue and guns are fired. Of course, they also get into funny and absurd situations that no one can expect.
In a world where names have been banned and the young generation doesn't know what books are, a group of teenagers find an old house and something they shouldn't find. Now they have to decide whether to be loyal to the government or investigate the matter further.
A harsh twist separates Karl and Sebastian early in life. The older brother Sebastian feels the loss of his little brother particularly harshly, and its impact remains with him even in his late teens. The viewer sees him in this stage of life and Sebastian's inner world more closely. But the film is not just a story about the suffering of a teenager – it also presents philosophical themes regarding the complexity of the human psyche.
Tauri is turning 18 tomorrow. Tauri doesn't really care about his birthday, but his friends Kerli, Berit and Sten still want to celebrate it. Upon arrival to his doorstep, Tauri finds a package with a message: “Don't open until you're 18”. Tauri goes inside, eats, watches TV and falls asleep. At midnight, the package starts ringing, but the surprises are not over yet...
Books are special. Magical. Wonderful. They hide the world that cannot be seen with the naked eye. They become visible only in you. You just have to know how to look. The animated film “Through the Gate of Wonders” takes the viewer on a journey into the magical world of books. Through the eyes of the main character, you can experience an adventure that takes place outside of time and space – in the reader's imagination. It all begins one day with an old book in the library…
On her way to Berlin, high school student named Maria starts a conversation with a stranger, never anticipating it would change her destination. The arriving and departing trains are the only witnesses to the birth of an unlikely friendship between two young people from two very different worlds.
There is a couple. Two bodies. Two beings. 1+1. Sometimes it feels like only one. An exploration of a relationship through movement, through the bodies of the performers. The unfathomable distance between two people. Broke but never broken.
Male alienation and isolation are recurrent themes in Raidpere’s work. Ten Men shows a series of prisoners flexing their muscles and flaunting their tattoos for the camera, but also smiling in embarrassment and looking away in hope of solidarity. The film leaves us wondering which of the prisoners are brutal criminals and which are simply victims of society
John McCombs shares outrageous stories about surviving the United States Marine Corps, dating a foreigner who loves Taco Bell, and how living in Chicago is a mix of dodging bullets and enjoying brunch. Shot live in Tallinn, Estonia!
A world where everything is created by humans. Deforming their own bodies, they calculate ways to increase the efficiency and convenience of their lives. If there are people who use their deformed bodies as tools for the purpose of labor, there are also those who are transformed into equipment for the purpose of just pleasure. A world entirely controlled by people, where they change form to become the things they want to be.
Fellow classmates decide to spend time together by going camping in the forest before the autumn break. In the forest, the teenagers begin to disappear one by one without a trace, and in the end only Markus remains alive.
Main character Kalev is convinced that his girlfriend is cheating on him with Mati Vänt. He angrily takes up extreme measures to find Mati Vänt and get his revenge. Kalev has come up with a plan to do that but everything doesn't work out as he hopes.
A man wants the last pair from a sale. But there is a catch to getting it.
I’m on the island, thinking of you, trying to find something familiar that will make you feel less far away. For centuries, a surveying method using triangulation has been used to find the location of a point too far away to measure. By determining the relative angles between near points of a triangle, one only has to be able to see the distant third point in order to plot where it is on a map. Using this method, complicated coastlines have been mapped, arcs of longitude established, and the shape of the earth itself discovered.
I grew up in Estonia in a swamp forest called Kõverdama. At the moment Kõverdama is being prepared to be cut down by a mining company. The film consists of broken and incomplete 3D scans of beings from Kõverdama. They tell stories of the place that used to be, is and will be.
My Mother, the Sea is a short animated film, which explores and symbolically expresses the grieving process for a mother's loss, from her passing until today.
In the film, Ada is talked about by her friends and companions, as well as Ada herself. The camera accompanies Ada in many different situations. Memories reach the viewer through photographic and film materials of past times.
Tallinn after the March bombing, filmed in April and May 1944.
A short film by Igor Glazistov
A short film by Igor Glazistov
Felix is an ordinary high school student who has many interesting friends, but his girlfriend Dasha does not like them. With their friend Mark, they decide to do a prallet with their friends in a house on the outskirts of town, but at one point something goes very wrong. The forest around town is full of special secrets. After that, their lives will never be the same as before. This party may be the last for them. Can they handle the blow of fate or not?
Each nameless person has to get their name. There’s no place where you can get such an acute feeling of the world and life as in a small neglected town on the edge of the earth. We collect intimate and genuine stories of the nameless people living between the wild northern taiga and an old Gulag prison, which still casts its grim shade on their joys and griefs.
The film about Merle Karusoo, the Estonian stage director and collector of local biographies, takes a look at the stories of her own life, reflecting on her personal beliefs and the role of remembering throughout life.
An Estonian documentary made during the WWII about the Bolshevik terror in Estonia during the period 1940- 41. Unfortunately only 21 minutes of footage survived – the rest was destroyed by the communists after the war.
12-year-old Shahad is studying at Tartu Descartes School. The film looks at the girl's everyday life, which is not quite everyday. The Shahadi family fled Syria six years ago. Four years ago, they arrived here, in their new home. How are they?
Tallinn's Kalev journey to the last USSR basketball champions.
The Flood touches upon the cryptocurrency mining that is inseparable from the environmental damage exerted by the intense use of electricity needed to carry out the process. The film is based on footage shot in various cryptocurrency mines in Estonia combined with footage from Estonian oil shale mines. Virtual currency, such as Bitcoins, offer an attempt to withdraw from the existing financial system, because it offers the idea of releasing money production from the central bank’s control. Every utopian idea is inevitably accompanied by the risk that new centers or “bubbles” could arise. Small crypto mines are being replaced by increasingly bigger ones. Despite the fact that some Estonian crypto mines are located in the territories of ex-power stations, this does huge environmental damage because of the vast demand for energy needed to mine virtual currencies.
Documentary by Andres Sööt about the years of 1996 and 1997. The film chronicle covering two years can be viewed as a continuation to Sööt's earlier films "Year of the Dragon" and "Year of the Horse". All three documentaries are the portraits of years, modelled by the director himself. There is neither a systematic nor exhaustive approach towards the selected times in history - what has been followed is the chronological order of events. Andres Sööt documents and comments both from a neutral as well as his personal point of view.
Boris Malinowski is the legendary judge in boxing and equal notorious judge within the criminal the world in Russia and Estonia. The Director Fredrik Undevik has followed Boris life on a four year journey thru a life in the criminal the world in Estonia.
A simple mans life who lives very close to the Estonian main transportation railroad. The constant vibrations that slowly disintegrate his house and the incredible loud noise are just a few things he has to deal with.
In honor and memory of conductor Eri Klas on his 80th birthday the documentary looks back on his life by using archival materials and conducting interviews.
During the harsh Estonian winter, fifteen-year-old Liis joins a group of teenagers for an unusual hunting game in the forest. She hopes to fit in with them, and opportunely she is paired with the boy she likes. The wild nature surrounding her awakens the strength to confront her feelings, yet conflicting emotions surface as the game unfolds.
Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld, under one condition - Orpheus must reach the land of the living before looking to see if his love is following him.
Since Estonia did not fly its own flag in World War II, Estonians had to choose between bad options at the time. We dedicate our film to all the young people of the time, whatever choice they made, and to all the Estonians who made a decision - past and future. The film is a mixture of memories, historians' views and the authors' historical fiction.
The 5th round is where it all comes together. But the lessons can be harsh and getting to the heart of the matter is just the beginning.
Boredom, existential void and the yearning for something different permeate the lives of a couple who are reaching an end of sorts.
Short, Comedy 2003
A symbolic staging of the complex dance of rapprochement between a man and a woman. A mechanical ballet flitting between black and white, light and dark and countless mirroring motions - until at last contact is made and a relationship develops.