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Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... Tis diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives. It composes an analogue gospel of a ...
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Four Stones

Original title: Neli kivi

2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Francesco Rosso

I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and his fellas to cope with their miseries. A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and ...
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Lost in the Rust

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Rudolfs Anže

Rūdolfs Anže's crime comedy, based on true events, where stealing companions fight over a tractor.

A love triangle between two metal-stealing companions and a tractor in the Latvian countryside turns into a gruesome murder anda struggle for survival.
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A Favour

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Bojana Babic

Thriller short film about murder and violence.

Saeed (23) is an immigrant who rents a room in an apartment owned by Ellen(43) and her husband Lauri (45). One day, as Saeed comes home from work, he finds Ellen in tears. After one of their usual violent arguments, Ellen killed her husband in an act of self-defence. Now, she needs Saeed's help to get rid of the body. Saeed has no other choice but to obey. Together, like a trained team, they roll Lauri’s body into a carpet, pack it in Ellen’s car and drive to a nearby forest. Saeed does his best to get over with this ...
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Time Capsule

Original title in Estonian: Ajakapsel

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Eric Romero

Desolate and troubled, a young woman confronts the root cause of her issues - her father.

Emeri (26) comes across a map from her childhood - a map that marks the location of a time capsule buried 19 years earlier- and memories come back rushing. Desolate and friendless, she then contacts her estranged father to dig up the time capsule together. Emeri must find a way to put the past finally at rest.
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Treehouse Cult

2020 | Students film, Animation, Music video | Director: Aigar Vals

A guy wanders in the woods, looking for a connection with Nature and discovering its inner space through psychedelia.

A guy wanders in the woods, looking for a connection with Nature and discovering its inner space through psychedelia.
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Amber

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Maria Cecilia Garcia, Martynas Norvaišas

The story of two young women who meet in the woods in winter.

Gabriela is a 30 years old woman doing research in an Isolated area during winter. She is waiting for her delayed colleague to come for her, but instead Amber, a funky hiker, arrives asking for help to go back to her camp. This walk ends up challenging Gabriela’s capabilities to walk in the woods and to discern what is real and what is not.
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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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Old Man Cartoon Movie

Original title: Vanamehe Film

2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.