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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Lake Bodom

Original title: Bodom

2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Taneli Mustonen

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls decide to rewrite history.

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, turns out not all of them are there to play... Tonight... it's girls against boys. Let the killing games begin.
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Pretenders

Original title: Teesklejad

2016 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Vallo Toomla

There is nothing so scary as your own reflection.

Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.
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The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
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Conversations in Non-existent Space

Original title: Kõnelused olematus ruumis

2015 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel

Documentary follows the searches for identity of creative people through experimental and improvisational music.

What is inspiration? Where does it come from and is it possible for it to be consciously evoked? The film speaks about the search for one’s identity through experimental and improvisational creation.
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Love Is Blind

Original title: Kertu

2013 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilmar Raag

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.
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Circulation of the Blood

Original title: Vereringe

2011 | Short, Feature film | Director: Peeter Simm

Short film directed by Peeter Simm about lonely people in the blood circulation of society.

Actress Ruth has been abroad for a long time and gained fame. When arriving at her homeland, she is broken and devastated. Local producer invites her to present at the TV broadcast on an international donors' day. Ruth is on drugs and her condition won't let her to be filmed. The angry producer sends his assistant to look for Ruth. When unexpectedly meeting Sven, a former co-student, Ruth will regain her energy and starts to shine. Sven's mother tells Ruth about his son's real life. It hurts to hear the truth.
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Purification

Original title in Estonian: Puhastus

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Gerli Nõmm
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Saime kokku Solenzaras

2010 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Eric. Child of fire

Original title: Eric. Tule laps

2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Eric and his world.

When we are born and grow up, we will be equipped with a mental map that helps us to form our destiny. However, the map and the reality around us don't always correlate. The map may be more interesting than reality, and reality may turn out more complicated than the map. Eric is a fifty-year-old man who in his youth has witnessed the creative process of designing JUKU personal computer that brought fame to Estonian ESSR. He has experienced a mental state that he calls enlightenment. In 1995 he went to live in a nursing home. On the All Souls' ...
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