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Hell's Stoker

Original title: Põrgu katlakütja

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

It is impossible for a man who has been in the war to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in his dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.

A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them. The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an ...
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Hit Big

Original title (in Finnish): Hetki lyö

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.

"Hit Big" revolves around Marjaleena, a 60-year-old, boozed-up former beauty pageant star who left Finland for Spain's Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot for Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko. One day, they hear that Marjaleena's husband, Worm, will be released after 20 years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist. Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions.
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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
Uus meremaale

2021 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories | Director:
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Common Language

Original title in Russian: Агульная мова

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Volia Chajkouskaya

Personal film about family.

My family has always had a lot of unspoken taboo topics. My father used to be an alcoholic, my mother has always been emotionally unavailable, which impacted our family relations. In fact, provoked codependent and toxic dynamic in our family. I was always a black sheep, never being taken seriously, and called ‘a strange one’. I decided to visit my parents in Vitsebsk to talk to them about what I never dared to talk before, and ask tough questions.
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In Bed With A Writer

Original title: Kirjanikuga voodis

2019 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi
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Family Lies

Original title: Perekonnavaled

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik, Manfred Vainokivi

“Family Lies” by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald (Roman Baskin), who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei (Tambet Tuisk) must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. “Family ...
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Risto

1998 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Indrek Kangur, Mart Taevere
Antosha

Original title: Antoša

1995 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait film by Jüri Sillart about one of the most prominent man in Estonian Television, a talented cinematographer Anton Mutt and about his tragic life.

Cameraman Anton Mutt - a distinguished filmmaker in Estonia and a bright star of the local television film history - started his career as a photographer and reached the world of film during the first years of Estonian Television in late 1950s. Anton Mutt was a teacher and an example for the whole generation of filmmakers who successfully tested the possibilities of the art of television - the new field of media. The pages of the cinematography in the history of Estonian Television have been mostly written by this very man. Anton Mutt loved his profession, he dedicated all his ...
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Heidikud

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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