Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Home

Search results

Out to Get Some Coffee or Something

2019 | Students film, Animation | Director: Eva Pajusaar

This short drawn anima3on by BFM student Eva Pajusaar depicts in an absurd fashion the aqtude of younger genera3ons regarding the problems of today’s society.

While walking on a street, the anima3on’s main character finds an establishment adver3sing a way to escape the issues of society.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Ballooner - there is no existance without it

2003 | Students film, Short | Director: Ergo Kuld
800 hits or the positive impact of the kricket's song to potato farming

Original title: 800 lööki ehk kilgilaulu soodsast mõjust kartuli kasvatamisel

1981 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Valeria Anderson

Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, a scientist in Saku agricultural institute, whose aim is to improve potato cultivation.

Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, scientist at the Estonian Research Institute of Agriculture, who develops the method of cultivating potatoes from meristem plants. Potato gets hit 800 times when harvested with a combine, thus potate yield decreases. While implementing Rosenberg's method it is possible to develop a healthy seed potato and thus increase potato crop yields. The filmmakers show Viive both in her laboratory and among her family. The potato plants cured by Rosenberg have provided first healthy seed potatoes - every tuber is a certificate for her work.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Itelmen Stories

Original title: Itelmeeni lood

2010 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

Two Itelmen hunters commence a long journey in order to restore the ancient hunting technique and to go back to their roots.

A touching documentary by Liivo Niglas about a disappearing nation and language. Only three hundred years ago the Itelmen nation inhabitated the river valleys on Kamchatka Peninsula. Due to epidemics and colonial politices the number of Itelmens was drastically decreased; native language was spoken only in a few villages. Today, about 1400 people consider themselves as Itelmens. The main sources of subsistence for Itelmens is fishing and hunting fur-bearing animals. Until 20th century sables were hunted with a net. Two Itelmen hunters commence a long journey through former Itelmen settlement territories in order to restore the ancient hunting technique. Their ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Each Wall Lives Its Own Life

Original title: Iga sein elab oma elu

2023 | Other categories | Director: Magnus Kallas

Over time, various well-known signs appear on the wall of a house on the street. The wall becomes more confusing until it is finally demolished.

A wall is located in the industrial district. By early morning, a red peace sign appears on the wall in the middle. The people rushing around during the day and don't care about it, new posters are pasted over the sign, a rainbow is belted over it and new posters over it. In the darkness of the night, a sign of anarchy appears over everything, windows are broken. The next morning, the entire previous stuff is being tried to cover with paint. Posters from the war appear on top of it, on top that a Z will appear. The sign ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
It's like summer, but in fact it's random

Original title in Estonian: Nagu oleks suvi, aga tegelikult on suva

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

In a sighted world, a young poet who has been blind since birth. Loneliness and sadness often haunt him. His art becomes a kind of tool that helps him to exist and navigate in the darkness and society.

Follow blind poet Paiv as he navigates a sighted world, finding solace through his art. A film about loneliness, disability and the transformative power of creativity.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Orchidelirium. Rip-Off

Original title: Orhideliirium. Rip-Off

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The maid embarks on a journey that requires cunning and magic to become an artist and gain the privileges of a lady of the manor.

In the film the intimate tension between a lady of the manor and her servant keen to mimic her mistress is embodied by a pair of Doppelgängers. The performance of the two women becomes increasingly intimate, embodying and eroticising the tension between the colonizer and the colonized and the entanglement of their fantasies and desires. The film is set in various manor houses in Estonia, the architectural legacy of foreign colonial power. Prior to the collapse of the Russian empire the manors used to belong to the German-speaking nobility that had dominated the Baltics for centuries. In the film, the ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Orchidelirium. Shelter

Original title: Orhideliirium. Varjupaik

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

A zoo employee is suddenly trapped behind bars and challenges visitors who mistake him for an animal.

Combining choreographic performance with documentary footage, the film offers a commentary on colonial legacies. The film is set in a post-Soviet zoo environment and the performer embodies a female zoo worker accidentally locked in a cage and transformed into a wild animal. Paying intense attention to the passing of time, the film follows the stages of her metamorphosis. In this process, the erotic tension becomes a tool of resistance to the visitors’ gaze, challenging the hierarchy of perspectives.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Orchidelirium. Thirst

Original title: Orhideliirium. Janu

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines.

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines. The thirst for luxury and abundance is the force that keeps the capitalist machinery running. The dry wells and the thirst for drinking water is what the local communities in Estonia are left with as the fragile wetlands are being drained for peat excavation in their neighbourhoods. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands where peat is needed as a component of the soil substrate for phalaenopsis orchids. While the mass-produced orchids may seem like a pathetic mimicry of what once was an ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
It’s About a Wedding

Original title in Estonian: See räägib pulmast

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Säde

Short comedy drama about a heartbroken novelist who deals with her crush marrying someone else by writing him the worst wedding imaginable.

What would you do if your crush was about to marry someone else? ‘’It’s About a Wedding’’ is the story of a sarcastic novelist burdened with unrequited love and a deadline. In an effort to escape a bad case of writer's block, she decides to channel her pain into her work, writing the worst wedding imaginable for her crush complete with a bitchy bridezilla. As both the real and fictional worlds begin to merge, events start to spiral out of control. After all, anything can happen when you're fueled by heartbreak, weed, and female rage.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis