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Ladybirds' Christmas

Original title: Lepatriinude jõulud

2001 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest.

Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest. The animated film "Ladybirds' Christmas“ is made for school age children.
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Sweet Dreams

The original title "Magusad unelmad"

2001 | Students film, Short | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar
The Gardener

Original title: Aednik

2001 | Feature film, Short | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo, Andrés Joaquin Sendino

Parable about the destructive vicious circle of loneliness, obsessions, love and giving it up.

A parable about a solitary man who has forsaken the world and finds comfort only in planting trees. This activity has become a sacred ritual for him. Yet deep inside, he awaits and seeks some sort of solution to his solitude. One day during a particularly severe drought, the Earth answers him - the man finds the unconscious body of a woman in the soil cracked by the heat. Without stopping to think, he takes her home, resuscitates her and looks after her. This unexpected companion seriously test his convictions. How far can solitude go? A story about the ...
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Madonna Is Not Dead A.D. 2050

Original title: Armas tuss 50 aastat hiljem

2000 | Short, Feature film | Director: René Vilbre

Futuristic vision with the touch of absurd about the Estonian people's possibilities to survive.

Two oldsters have decided to make babies. When they were young they never had time for that because they had to work hard in order to survive. Now that they are retired, the two active oldsters make babies for sale in order to spend their old age for consuming beer, cigarettes and cocaine. It is the year of 2050. Soon, the third baby of the oldsters' couple will be born and the selling price is going up. Moral and ethical categories have changed. Ageing Europe needs children.
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Yellow House

2000 | Musical film, Dance | Director: Manfred Vainokivi, Marju Lepp
Poeme d´Amour

Original title; Armastuse poeem

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Airi Kasera

World-famous violinist Evi Liivak, a former prodigy, is being portrayed through her husband's and friends' points of view.

Biographical documentary about a former prodigy, world-famous violinist Evi Liivak (1924-1996). The film introduces the life of a talented musician who was born in VIljandi, Estonia and who lived her life in New York. The main storyteller of the film is a widowed old gentleman Richard Anschuetz who was living and working together with Evi Liivak since the postwar years. There is noble dignity in the old man's admiration, silent contemplations, descriptions of the past and mutual relationships where the attachment to each other and to art will be revealed.
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Come to Visit

Original title (in Estonian): "Külla tuli"

1997 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaak Kilmi
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Grisha

Original title: Griša

1996 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary about Grigori Kromanov - a film and theatre director - directed by Jüri Sillart.

On the basis of interviews held with Grigori Kromanov´s (1926 – 1984) family, schoolmates, friends, colleagues, co-fighters and opponents, and using extracts from films, Jüri Sillart has produced a psychological and creative documentary portrait about the film and theatre director who never ceased to seek his place in the world. Based on these recollections an image about a talented, human, kind, honest, restless and uncompromising man will be made, a portrait of someone as a prisoner stuck between two different culture; however, whose heart belonged to only one of them.
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I love you

Original title: Ma armastan sind

1996 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peter Herzog

Short film directed by Peter Herzog about the encounters between a man and a woman in dreams. When they wake up from the dreams, they don't know each other.

The Woman is looking for the Man to whom she says the phrase "the eyes of a blue dog" in a dream. In the dreams, the Man and the Woman know each others. The Woman is searching for the Man also outside the dream world, but the Man won't remember anything that has been said in the dream nor he won't understand the Woman who constantly tries to recall the Man of these words everywhere. "The eyes of a blue dog" would help them to recognize each other when awake. The film is based on the novel "The Eyes of ...
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Victoria (A Story of a Love Affair), Part 1

Original title: Victoria (Ühe armastuse lugu) I jagu

1994 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The lyrical love story directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the novel "Victoria" (1898) by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The film tells the story about different adventures in the lives of young people being in love, brought into the 1930s in Estonia.

The love story with nostalgic atmosphere begins with the innocent affection of childhood between Johannes, son of a miller, and Victoria, daughter of a well-off landowner. Their affection grows into a burning flame of love that will be extinguished by the social status of the wealthy and bourgeois false morality.
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