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Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life

Original title: Pilt, mis öösel liigutas

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside!

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside! All seems to be going well until the innkeeper's dead grandfather tries to eat him.
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
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Living Images

Original title: Elavad pildid

2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hardi Volmer

The historical drama directed by Hardi Volmer is a love story combining the elements of epopee and comedy, the grotesque of early silent film and the melodrama of the golden era of cinema.

Helmi, the daughter of a Baltic German baron, is imbued with life. She grows up in an old town house in Tallinn being neighbours with Julius, cinema technician, who has lifelong feelings for Helmi. Their lives and destinies meet in the old house throughout the 20 century - the house that keeps changing together with various times, both restless and happy.
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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Horrible Accident

2009 | Students film, Short | Director:

The film about modern problems of our teenagers looks dramatic, makes viewer to sympathize to the girl.

This shortfilm is a classical story of a young teenage girl with her vital problems, hopes and hard life situation. She is inviting friends to celebrate her birthday. Table is covered with bottles with alcohol, cakes and rubbish. Girl gets very drunk and eventually faints. She wakes up in the hospital, where young doctor is visiting her.. doctor tries to get some trust from her by telling he was in the same situation and even he did stupid things when he was young. However the girl seems not to be interested in the conversation or life at all though she ...
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Dear Mister Moon

Original title: Kallis Härra Q

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rao Heidmets

The debut feature film directed by Rao Heidmets is based on the children's story "Dear Mister Moon" by Aino Pervik and tells about children's yearning for genuine family relations.

When two stepsisters - 13-year-old blonde Sigrid and 7-year-old dark-complexioned Saara - meet each other for the first time, it will turn out that their grandmother has been taken to a retirement home. The girls make up their minds to steal grandma from the home and hide her in an attic-room where they could be all together. Everything goes unexpectedly well until drunkards, hoodlums and blackmailers interfere and the girls have to know exactly what they are doing in order to escape the gang.
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Fotorondo

Original title: Fotorondo

1978 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary by Peeter Tooming about the relationship between reality and art in photography, about photography as a means of recording and interpreting.

Director Peeter Tooming has dedicated himself to protecting old photographs that have stood the test of time - he introduces photo exhibitions in rural areas while presenting a photograph as an omnipotent means of recording historical events, as a work of art. Peeter Tooming is concerned whether people really understand the importance of photography in our lives. Do they really get the idea of the art of photography?
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Eesti talufilm

1973 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Mark Soosaar