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Yearning for Love

Original title: Armuigatsus

2007 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg

Musician Arved Haug has created a lot of music for variety shows. During the last decades of his life his muse was actress Anne-Reet Margiste - then the composer wrote his most lyrical, soulful and beautiful songs.

The songs from the music record "I Will Send My Shadow" (1996) by composer Arved Haug (1922-1995) reveal a special period in the composer's life. The story of love between Arved Haug and actress Anne-Reet Margiste strongly influenced Haug's creativity when he wrote many emotional songs. Eri Klas, Ivo Linna, Vello Orumets, Vello Mikk, Urmas Arumäe, Ago Roo, Volli Käro and others share their memories about Arved Haug - a diverse musician and a great personality. The documentary was made for Arved Haug's 85th birth anniversary.
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From Udmurtia with Love

Original title of the film: Udmurtiast armastusega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õnne Luha
Golden Beach

Original title: Kuldrannake

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The drama directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the play "The moment of truth" by Hans Luik, telling about the generation of people whose Jüri Sillarti draama Hans Luige näidendi „Tõe hetk“ ainetel inimestest, kelle noorus lõpeb 2000ndate Eestis võitjate või kaotajatena.

The reunion of a former successul pop group will take a horrible turn when an uninvited guest appears among the rich and the beautiful, bringing messages about the return of Sodom and Gomorrah. This makes everyone recall things that no one wants to remember.
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One Thousand and One Nights

Original title: 1001 öö muinasjutt ehk Eesti naiste imelised seiklused Egiptuses

2006 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Elo Selirand, Anne-Mari Neider

The resorts of Egypt have become as accessible as local Narva-Jõesuu, people go to spend their weekends there. What lies ahead? Pyramids? Yes. Warmth? Yes. Extreme attention to white women, uncovered locks of hair and shoulders? YES! The film crew recruited blonde Eneli to be the bate as well as the main character and flew to an Egyptian resort to take a closer look. What do Egyptian men want, what do white women expect, how does a culture change work with the main means being flirtation and personal relationships? The film does not give answers, but shares a first-hand experience. ...
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Still Life with Wife

Original title: Vaikelu naisega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

An unusual couple lives in an urban backwater. Married now for over a quarter of a century, their endless sniping never intensifies into the major quarrel that would resolve everything. This constant tension helps the man to paint and gives the woman a reason for living.
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I Am Just a Woman

Original title: Ma olen ju naine

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Kert Grünberg

Airika is a self-confident young woman who sees her future as a single mom and decides to stay out of long-term relationships with men.

More than half Estonian marriages and partnerships end with separation. Fatherless girls raised by their mothers learn that one cannot count on men - you have to survive on your own. Protagonist Airika comes from the family of single mothers - her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother have been raising their children on their own. Great-grandmother and grandmother were deported to Siberia in 1949 - they had to raise their daughters without men. Airika's mother has divorced twice and raising Airika's 16-year-old sister alone. The documentary observes 25-year-old Airika's daily life and investigates the reasons why the young woman has decided ...
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Mis värvi on armastus?

2005 | Students film, Short | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

Kollases ajalehes töötav fotograaf värvib kõik teda ümbritseva kollaseks, sest ta on õnnelik. Kui aga saatus hakkab oma veidraid mänge mängima, tuleb mehel uuesti värvipott kätte võtta ning mõistatada, mis värvi armastus tegelikult on.
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A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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An actor

Original title (in Estonian): "Näitleja"

2004 | Students film, Short | Director: Maiju Ingman
Revolution of Pigs

Original title: Revolution of Pigs

2004 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi, René Reinumägi

An adventurous youth comedy directed by Jaak Kilmi and Rene Reinumägi takes place in an enviroment resembling Woodstock where a fifteen-year-old protagonist takes part in a revolt against the system, during which he identifies himself as a person and finds love.

In the summer of 1986 thousands of Estonian youngsters go to the gathering of Estonian Students' League in order to spend three days full of adventures, romance and partying. Yet, the pressure of the System is here - one has to follow ideological rules and keep one's mouth shut, notwithstanding the fact that the slogans are not valid any more and the graduates can be sent to the war in Afghanistan. Pressure creates anti-pressure and the struggle against the System explodes.
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