childhood memories
An intimate and cinematic journey into the life and music of Hendrik Sal-Saller, one of Estonia’s most beloved musicians, whose work has shaped the collective memory of a nation.
Deep, funny and provocative story of a girl who escaped a hippy eco-commune as a child and became a cosmopolitan citizen. Who will save the planet if not the last generation?
How can we talk about life’s hardest truths and still hold on to not just the will to live—but the joy of it?
She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.
As a student, the protagonist watches Emir Kusturica’s film “Black cat, white cat”, about the wacky life of the Balkans, and suddenly realizes that he has already seen all this in his childhood in Võrumaa. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
The sound of the organ brings back a childhood memory experienced decades ago.
A personal family documentary in which the author has conversations with family, reflects on childhood wounds and tries to communicate with the departed family member by recreating him audiovisually.
In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.
A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.
A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.
The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.
This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.
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.
A biographical documentary film by Kristin Raup and Madli Lääne about Merle Karusoo, the Estonian stage director and collector of local biographies.
Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the desire to pull the mask off the maestro and show the real Rannap to the extent possible.
A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.
The film tells the autobiographical story of an author who wanted to change her place of residence in the hope of changing herself and her life. But it turned out that the country does not change anything if the soul remains the same.
Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...
Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.
It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.
It's David Vseviov's birthday - a day that becomes a journey through stories of time
This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.
The angel will guide us.
Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career will argue.
An architectural film about nostalgia of childhood.
A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.
The film portrays Estonian rally driver Ott Tänak, one of the most elusive athletes in the eyes of the media with highly reclusive character. His self-willed tenacity has forged this stubborn country boy with a roller coaster career into a driven WRC-pilot who for the first time has in reach the fulfilment of his childhood dream – to snatch the world championship title from the equally hungry competitors.
An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.
We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.
A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.
A stoic man living in seclusion, reluctant to let go of his past is reminded why.
"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.
Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.
A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.
A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.
It was my first time leaving Estonia with no thoughts of return. It was the first time I changed my life completely for something as unexpected as love.
Stained glass artist fights for her existence and for new orders. Looking back to her long life, she investigates her current situation and motives of her creativeness.
Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.
A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible. Then we grow up and everything is impossible.
Architecture film shot on location at Kuke Guesthouse.