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Reading between the lines

Original title (in Estonian): "Ridade vahelt lugedes"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Nadja Girich

Adaptation of original letters by Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and estonian poetess Maria Karamzina.

An actress, suffering from midlife crisis, gets a role in a theatre performance alongside a famous actor, performing the touching story of friendship between world-known Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and Russian emigrant poet from Estonia Maria Karamsina. While performing the play, the actors’ sympathy surpasses the theatre stage, growing into something bigger in real life.
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Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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Grounded

Original title: Tiibateta piloot

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

Short film directed by Leeni Linna about the struggles of a pilot who has lost one eye in Afghanistan war.

In the war in Afghanistan, the helicopter pilot Raul (34) loses sight in one eye and is stripped of his wings. The depressed Raul infuriates his wife and she moves away from him with their child. Raul feels like a useless cripple and decides to end his life. He builds a flying machine from helium balloons and decides to take the last flight of his life in it.
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See You In Chechnya

Original title: Näeme Tšetšeenias

2015 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksander Kvatašidze

If you go to war, war will come home with you.

September 1999. For Alex, as for the rest of Georgians, war in Chechnya seemed to be far away, seen only on the screens of Russian media. In fact it was just behind the Caucasus Mountains. He'd never imagine going there, but he did. He followed her, the French photographer he had met just a few days before at the fashion show. Alex discovers the world of War Reporters and wants to become one of them, but he doesn't succeed. He keeps in connected to war through his friend, practising war reporters and observes what war does to them for 15 ...
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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Dawn

Original title (in Estonian): "Tosin küsimust Eesti kohta: Koit"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Giampietro Balia

“A Dozen Questions about Estonia“ introducing Estonia and the nature of Estonians through the 12 short films.

Short film „The Dawn“ is based on the question „Why are the Estonians called a singing nation?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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The Voice of Sokurov

Original title (in Finnish): Sokurovin ääni

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leena Kilpeläinen
2084: Memory spasms

Original title (in Estonian): "2084: Mälukrambid"

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Anna Hints, Doris Tääker, Eva Kübar, Greta Varts, Heinrich Sepp, Margus Raid, Reino Aedmäe, Sandra Zaneva

It is year 2084 and seven people, who have so far been working a routine filled life beneath the earth, find themselves captured in a white room. Not knowing each other and facing the unfamiliar situation, the room starts to play with the subjects, with the purpose of making them Estonians. The test is being conducted by an android-scientist who inserts various information pieces into the room: historical memories, language, culture and physical tests. Through the unfamiliar situation and tests, unity and conformity starts forming within the human test subjects and they become Estonians. With independent thinking and passion ...
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Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Tangerines

Original title: Mandariinid

2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaza Urušadze

The film is an Estonian-Georgian co-production about a wise Estonian man living in an Abkhazian village during the turbulent times of Abkhazian-Georgian military conflict in the autumn of 1992. The Estonian takes care of two wounded enemies, trying to help both men to find a human solution in this ruthless war.

Oscar's nomination in the category of the best foreign language film- The Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (USA). It is the autumn of 1992 when the military conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia has influenced also Estonian villages with more than hundred years history. Local people have fleed from the war. An Estonian man Ivo takes two seriously wounded enemies - a Georgian and a Chechen - to his house to take care of them. Ivo is a wise old man remains righteous during the war while trying to conciliate the two bloodthirsty warriors. This is a ...
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Lobotomy

Original title: Lobotoomia

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Juri Haštševatski
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