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The Third

Original title in Estonian: Kolmas

2013 | Short, Advertising/Promotion, Students film | Director: Maria Reinup
Purge

Original title: Puhastus

2012 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Antti J. Jokinen

The feature film directed by Antti J. Jokinen is based on the novel "Purge" (by Sofi Oksanen) that has been translated into more than 20 languages and that has received numerous literary awards, telling about political terror against a small nation and about mental as well as physical violence towards an individual.

Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
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The Hair Collector

2012 | Short, Students film | Director: Sigrid Reede

A scary story of a guy who collects hair.

“The Hair Collector” is a story of a guy who collects hair. First he finds somebody appealing and after some closer observation he secretly collects hair from that person. In the end it appears that his intentions are quite different from what it seemed from the beginning.
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Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

Original title: Lotte ja kuukivi saladus

2011 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

One night two strangers creep into Gadgetville, searching for a suitcase belonging to the old traveller dog Klaus. Girl puppy Lotte surprises the strangers who become frightened and flee, dropping the yellow stone they had taken from the suitcase. Klaus found the stone on his last journey in the mountains. Actually there were three stones; the other two were left to Klaus's friends, the dogs Fred and Ville. Lotte discovers that this is not an ordinary stone. There is a complicated mechanism inside it. Klaus and Lotte decide to find Fred and Ville in order to get the other two ...
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Rat Trap

Original title: Rotilõks

2011 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

The adventurous drama directed by Andres Puustusmaa is based on true events. Both Estonian and Russian actors are involved, including Marina Aleksandrova, Nikolai Fomenko and Kirill Käro, a rising film star with Estonian roots.

A huge sum of money gets lost during a home party held by an Estonian politician during an election campaign. A few party guests are involved in the case, those having serious financial issues and trying to cope with the mistakes made in the past. The self-confident politician, however, won't call the police but decides to use gunboat diplomacy instead.
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That's IT!

Original title: Täitsa lõpp!

2011 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Ilmar Raag, Jaak Kilmi, Mikk Rand, Rasmus Merivoo, René Vilbre

The first collective film in the world, made by the contribution of thousands of Estonian people, is the road movie where the characters with enormous speed travel around Estonia, meet silly people and find love.

It's December and Christmas time, but outside the summer sun is blazing. Something is wrong! The Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Every Estonian has to decide how they will spend their last days. Rait finally wants to confess his feelings to his lifelong love, starlet Lenna Kuurmaa. His friend Mihkel, hits his head, goes bonkers, and needs to save the world by sacrificing Lenna to the God of Sun. Brenda wants to escape her dictatorial mother but the orderlies of an insane asylum are chasing after her. Ervin wins the world's last lottery ...
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Evidence

2009 | Short, Students film | Director: Krisjanis Leitis
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On the Other Side

Original title of the film: Teisel pool / On the Other Side

2008 | Short, Feature film | Director: Samuel Jacquemin

Short film produced as a collaboration between Estonia and France about the attempt of a man named Victor living under a totalitarian regime to escape to a free world.

Victor, a man living under a totalitarian regime, sees his monotonous life disrupted by a strange message from his girlfriend whom he thought had disappeared. Anke has managed to flee to a free country and urges him to join her as soon as possible. Victor starts dreaming of a different world, and despite his doubts makes the decision to flee in his turn. It will be for him the beginning of a journey filled with traps, in which any unusual action on his part can lead to disaster.
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Fed up!

Original title: Kõrini!

2005 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Peeter Simm

The adventurous and funny road movie directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the way love and hate are interconnected and how positive solutions are possible even when one is completely fed up with everything.

Kaminsky is a long-distance driver disappointed both in life and other people. His last duty as a drives takes him to Estonia where he decides to fulfill an old promise. By chance, Kaminsky meets an Estonian cellist Stella on his road. Her career in Germany has ended already before it ever started. Kaminsky's trailer truck is being steadily followed by a catafalque where an Estonian beginner bank robber Wolf is chasing his eluded prey. Undertaker Manfred with dark past tries to lead Wolf closer to God. In Estonia, everyone's wishes will come true, even if not exactly the way they ...
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Hourglass Fixer

Original title: Liivakellade parandaja

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anu Aun

Short film directed by Anu Aun about the love story of a young couple and the collision between different rights.

Tim prepares a revenge to a judge who found Tim's innocent brother guilty for a murder and the brother was imprisoned. While waiting for the right opportunity, Tim hides out in a deserted church near the judge's residence. One day, Tim's hideaway is discovered by a strange girl called Hea. Two young people hungry for love find a companion in each other. They secretly meet, get engaged and plan to run away. But then it turns out that Hea is the judge's daughter and there are more young men besides Tim who are interested in Hea.
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