Catalogue

Fiction

The Verging

The Verging follows an autum day of a young boy in a remote farm, where he lives with his father. The monotonous everyday rhytm is interrupted, when the boy has to kill the lamb, to mature as a man.

This retro-futuristic cyberpunk short film takes place in Neo-Berlin in 2079. A dark, rain-soaked city held by mega corporations where the only enjoyment in life is connecting to cyberspace and taking “Binary Trip” a cyber drug that fries your neurons but promises a feeling better than a hundred orgasms at once.

The Mausoleum

Lauri Randla’s short film tells a tragicomic story of the patologist Aleksei Abrikosov, who embalmed Lenins body and in theory managed to overcome death… so his further existence has been permanently attached to Lenin’s corpse.

Ice

A father and son story set on the enchanting ice road across the frozen sea.

Butterfly Man

Young lonely Anselm is working in a famous Boruslawsky’s circus as a cleaning boy. He exercises secretly tricks and wants to become a magician, but is never recognized. Anselms' chance comes when the best magician of the circus enchants himself vanish and nobody can find him.

LIVING IMAGES

Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl.

GRACIAS A LA VIDA

Patrik, the guitarist with remarkable imagination, lives an easy and modest life. He is unusually sensitive to beautiful women and cars. His charming spouse Rita causes him an unintended jealousy attack. Unexpected follows. Patrik meets a lonely footless aristocrat, Roland Zagreus.

A COACHMAN KNOCKS THREE TIMES

What happens, when an unexpected guest comes to your life?

A FRIEND OF MINE

Mati (Aarne Üksküla) doesn't want to live anymore after the loss of his wife. She was everything to him and he thinks that life has no point without her. He has a job in a library and there is Ruth (Rita Raave), who has secretly loved him for years.

THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF

A young actress gets Tiina's role in "The Werewolf". But it haunts in the theatre, the curse lies on the rehearsals, a fake blood becomes a real one. The actress starts to investigate a ghost story, which takes her back in time to the old theatre legends and intrigues.

MALEV

The action of the adventurous historical comedy "Malev" takes place in the beginning of the 13th century Estonia and Livonia. The powerful troops of German Order try to conquer and baptise local nature people.

SHOP OF DREAMS

Alice, 25-year old stylist finds after returning from the holiday that TV-studio, where she worked, was in bankrupt. With her friends Ada and Jana she starts a costume renting company, what would offers everything that one can dream of...

WHERE DO THE SOULS ESCAPE

A young girl Ann (Ragne Veensalu), who feels lonely among her own family and is jealous to his unborn brother, turns in desperation to the Satanists to curse the birth of the child. Although Ann doesn't believe in the curse and takes it as a game, doctors discover an incurable heart defect.

A PECULIAR FAIRYTALE

A Peculiar Fairytale is a funny and very surprising modern fairytale about two countries- Poor Kingdom and Militant Kingdom, which have been at war with each other for a long time.

STRANGER

This is a poetical story about lonely life of a 10 year old boy and his mother, which at one point is distracted by an unknown wounded person, who brings messages from the father who is sitting in jail.

TAARKA

The first movie in the world in Seto language is about a lucid hero of a small nation - a minstrel Hilana Taarka. Woman who lived her entire life as a scum of society in a house without a chimney; a single mother who lived in poverty, begging and doing odd jobs and singing.

The Master Painter and the Whisky Club

Artist per excellence, creator of the imaginary picture-landscapes, a charming person, adorer of the woman’s beauty, gentleman and a colonel in local whisky club - Tallinn Uisge Beatha Club. A documentary portrait of Tiit Pääsuke, the most prominent painter in contemporary Estonia.

Rough Stage

Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at heart. He dreams of staging a contemporary dance performance in Ramallah. In order to do so, he must deal with his disapproving family, tight budgets and cultural norms.

The Gull Theorem

A lively and sensitive bird, who flies in-between sharp and shiny metal constructions and mirrors that reflect its body, break its wings.

Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

First-ever documentary about Dora Gordine, an elusive, yet crucial figure in the history of sculpture.

CAMINO

The Grand Old Man of the Estonian Documentary Andres Sööt starts a trip of 800 km in North Spain to follow the ancient pilgrimage route of Camino de Santiago, reaching the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in Finisterra - “at the end of the world”.

THIS IS THE DAY

This film takes place in the Velika Hoca monastery in Serbs South-Kosovo enclave amongst the orthodox munks. The bearing idea of the film is that the human instict to survive is realized through human kindness and caring for others in addition to following the religious principle "Do not kill, but forgive".

ERKKI-SVEN TÜÜR: 7 ETUDES IN PICTURES

What does being a composer really mean? How does one piece of music become live? How do the first thoughts and graphic illustration form first tacts and the whole piece? What kind of responsibility bears the composer in front of his listener.

CLASSMATES FROM 1943. FORGOTTEN MEMORIES.

Documentary based on archival materials about lost generation of young Estonian men, who have forced themselves to forget their youth.

The main characters are five schoolboys from Tartu in wartime and post-war Estonia, Germany and Russia (1943-1947)

PARIS ON A CHECKERED TABLE-CLOTH

Documentary about Estonian artist Rein Tammik who lives in France.

SUM OF THE DAYS BEEN AWAY

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants.

AN INVITATION

A documentary about inherent right to live. The main character Ivar Heinmaa has worked as a frontline operator with international groups in all the hot spots in the world - in Chechnya, in the former Yugoslavia, in Afghanistan and in Iraq.. often literally facing the death.