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The Crutch

Original title (in Estonian): "Kark"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Paula Maria Vahtra
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I Won´t Come Back

Original title: Я не вернусь

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ilmar Raag

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.

Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year-old Christine, an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a turning point for Anya – reliving her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced to rewrite her life. In I Won’t Come Back, Ilmar Raag, director of the ...
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Hella W

Original title: Hella W

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juha Wuolijoki

An epic biographical film about Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish public figure and writer who was born and raised in Estonia.

The events of the film "Hella W" take place during the most decisive decade in European history - from 1920s to 1940s. By that time, Wuolijoki had earned millions and written several politically incorrect plays. Due to her left-wing views, her activities were observed both by British, Soviet and Finnish secret services. When the events of the Second World War developed, Hella found herself in a situation that knew no simple solutions ... Among other jobs, Wuolijoki also worked as a co-author for Postimees newspaper. Her plays are a part of history of literature, including the Niskavuori series, The Farmer's ...
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Hing

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne
Fragile is the Night

Original title: Õrn on öö

2010 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Helpline advisers's job is to keep listening to those in need and try to follow them to the very end of their sufferings while trying to understand, comfort and give advice.

They say that human life hangs by a thread. Every moment, every second, day or night, summer or winter, from the very first breath to the last one, in health and in sickness - the thread may be broken any time. Not much is needed to make it happen. Calling the helpline is the last hope for those in need and the last connection to the outer world. Depression, loneliness, hopelessness, problematic situations - these are main subjects of these calls. The helpline advisers are attentive listeners and know how to dissolve distress and worry. They are just like kind ...
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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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Pharaoh´s Children

Original title: Vaarao lapsed

1991 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Sulev Keedus
Uus Ilm

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Tõnis Kask
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Partei liige

1970 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Valeria Anderson
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In the Backyard

Original title: Tagahoovis

1957 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Viktor Nevežin

The film directed by Viktor Nevezhin is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts, depicting the life in slums in 1930s with melacholy humour and colourful characters. It is the first Estonian film adaptation of a literary classics where the best drama actors of that time perform.

The film is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts and the drama play directed by Andres Särev, telling the story about the distressed residents living in poor slums during the economic crisis of the first Estonian Republic in early 1930s. It is the life in the backyard both literally and symbolically.
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