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Experts Of Love

Original title: Armastuse asjatundjad

2024 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

Three different families, one from Berlin and two from Estonia try out having multiple partners at the same time. Coping with the lack of self-esteem and fighting with jealousy are here just the tip of the iceberg.

Kay and Beate, Germans in their 50s based in Berlin have opened their relationship to polyamory after 30 years of Christian marriage and two grown-up children. Living in the centre of sexual liberty they at least seem to know how poly should work – parties in Berlin’s swingers' clubs, visits to a poly therapist and several affairs happening all over Europe. In Estonia it's a different story altogether. Due to the Soviet background it's much harder to break the stereotype while living in the backwoods of Europe. Meeting the sensual Berliner Kay becomes a relief for Estonian housewife Marianne but a ...
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Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.
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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
The Diary of Vaino Vahing

Original title: Vaino Vahingu päevaraamat

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rainer Sarnet

When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.

In 1968–1984, Vaino Vahing kept a diary about real events and persons in his own subjective interpretation. It reflects cultural life of Tartu, love affairs, bohemian parties and intellectual quests of the time. Vahing was interested in borderline situations, crossing the borders. He drew no clear line between art and life. Vahing provoked people, tried to make them to lose their masks, their self control. He called this provoking the Spiel, or play. We are looking at a creator who has made disharmony his source of inspiration, who experiences “the greatest torment in love”. One who fears to lose himself ...
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Will you please be quiet, please

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Prem Jyothis, Tul Paloma Rodriguez

The dance drama tells the story of a relationship and the need for individual space.

A couple, who are falling out of love, vigorously address their differences and, the suffocation from co-existing.
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An Exchange

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Noah Ambrose

A couple argues about leaving their vacation cabin until they discover it might be too late.

It is a quiet night in the woods and Tuuli is rethinking her decision to bring her partner, Kaspar, to the family cabin for the week. As she tries to get him to leave Kaspar reveals that he has discovered a secret she has been keeping from him. Before the couple can finish their discussion, a strange drumming begins outside and the cabin is surrounded by hooded torch-bearing strangers. Things go from bizarre to crazy as the strangers begin slapping the windows and Tuuli starts having a seizure. Then as suddenly as it began, the slapping stops and the strangers ...
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Pretenders

Original title: Teesklejad

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Vallo Toomla

There is nothing so scary as your own reflection.

Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with. Anna and Juhan begin to pretend they own the house, engaging their guests in a game of domination that propels their relationship to the brink of destruction.
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The Spy and the Poet

Original title: Luuraja ja luuletaja

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Hussar

Nobody knows what anybody knows.

Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy’s plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
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Black Peter

Original title: Must Peeter

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Priit Pääsuke

One night, a modern married couple living in a city settles their alienated relationship while trying to bring novelty into their lives with provocations exceeding the limits of decency.

Sarcastic comedy based on Peeter Sauter's short story "Black Peter". The film tells a story about a married couple who keep fighting and upsetting each other. Peter and his wife are having dinner in a restaurant with their friends. The wife says that they have not quarreled for already two weeks. However, this is just a pretext, preceding a solid war. She provokes the husband with masochistic consistency and will achieve her goal. The man's response is striking and ridiculous.
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