animal actors
The family, just moved to their new city apartment, has to figure out what to do with the goat that was suddenly gifted as part of a charitable program.
On the Russian-Estonian borderline, Silja, a Seto woman, after an unexpected visit from a popular French vlogger, begins to rediscover her indigenous identity and gradually awaken to her true gender role.
A historical fantasy that intertwines 19th-century Estonian village life with ancient Ukrainian mythology, following Elo as she searches for her suddenly vanished husband.
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.
We navigate through a world of competing signs, where the deeper meaning of a sign often remains incomprehensible.
A story about time and music, friendship and love and death, life in current times and about childhood in the 70s.
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.
When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.
A young man decides to break in to the hospital, when he is told he cannot go see his sick little sister due to new laws that have been passed in response to a pandemic.
10-year-old Otto, who has lost his parents, receives an unexpected gift at the night of his birthday, when a little dog Laika lands on earth in Sputnik 2.
When truth goes missing, lies start to grow, leaving no room for miracles to be born. An ode to the post-truth world. A short film directed by Kaspar Ainelo about a lost dog, a crime and victims.
Having unwillingly agreed to become the Godfather to his ex-wife’s newborn baby, Andres falls deep into the pool of self-pity. Luckily,he has his best friends Mart and Toomas by his side who take Andres to tantra camp to find the most beautiful woman to accompany him at the baptising.
An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.
Story of a cat, looking for a place to call home.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.
Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.
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.
Adapt or run!
Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.
Overeducated and unemployed, Manivald lives with his overbearing mother. When their washing machine breaks down one day, Toomas the repairman arrives to fix it and them.
This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.
