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Show Me the Sound

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Agnese Laizane

Film student Agnes Laizane's master's thesis tells the story of how her mother's hearing loss affects family relationships.

A drama about a woman who becomes deaf and whose loved ones, her husband and daughter help her overcome the crisis.
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Spring of Light

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Aleksandr Rachynskyi
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Taeva ja maa vahel

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Kivirand, Robi Uppin
Tehnopol - IDEA

2011 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

A commercial video for Estonias biggest Business Incubator Tehnopol.

This is the story of a smart little boy named IDEA who has big dreams and great plans. So when IDEA grows up, he sets his goals to make his dreams come true and goes into the world to find ways to do so. Along the way he understands though, that good things don’t come easy. And just as IDEA is about to give up, something totally unexpected happens…and by fate or coincidence…IDEA finds the place he was looking for all along – this place is Tehnopol.
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That's IT!

Original title: Täitsa lõpp!

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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The African Mother

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kris Haamer

Kris Haamer’s documentary is a story of São Tomé and Príncipe painter Alex, who prepares for his first exibition.

As the young painter Alex Keller Fonseca journeys through the forgotten island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, we meet 13 talented people, who share with us their dreams. We will find access to the sources of creativity of artists, and discover how their efforts, despite the uncertainties and obstacles, are worth it. This film will inspire each of us to seize fate by the horns and fulfill our souls by creating something — by giving physical form to our thougts.
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The Hope (Lotus) Dies the Last

Original title in Estonian: Lo(o)tus sureb viimasena

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sergei Zjuganov
The Idiot

Original title: Idioot

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

The feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet is based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The filmmaker interprets the well-known classic in a contemporary film language with talented Estonian actors and actresses who perform in the enchanting yet intimidating beauty of a sacral space.

When Prince Myshkin appears to the high society of St Petersburg, no one can predict that this penniless and sick man will have such a big influence on people. He can even handle hardened souls such as Rogozhin and his companions, not to mention the family of General Yepanchin. Young, pretty and innocent Aglaya is ready for anything for Prince Myshkin. The prince, however, is dedicated to Nastasya Filippovna instead. Having been through the hell of desires, she has a purified soul that inspires respect and hope in the prince in order to save her from damnation.
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The Journey

Original title in Estonian: Teekond

2011 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Ermo Säks
The Kaplinski System

Original title: Kaplinski süsteem

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raphaël Gianelli-Meriano

The documentary co-directed by Estonian and French filmmakers portray Jaan Kaplinski - a man behind words.

What kind of a man, husband and father is Jaan Kaplinski, one of the most known and productive Estonian writers, poets and thinkers? What lies behind his poetry and writings? A close insight into Kaplinski's world describes one day in the writer's life, from dusk till down, full of daily activities in Mutiku farm, including discussions about poetry, language and freedom of creation during the Soviet era and today. There are pivotal times in Kaplinski's life right now since he is looking for inner freedom while following the example of Taoism. His thoughts and flashbacks of the past including simple ...
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