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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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Secret of Life

Original title (in French): "Secret De La Vie"

2016 | Students film, Music video | Director: Saverio Madis Santostasi

Music Video of the song “Secret De La Vie”.

A story about a woman who has dreamed about a man since she was a little girl.
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The Man From Samaria

Original title (in Estonian): "Samaaria mees"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Aua

Short documentary, by Maria Aua, is a story about a pastor who takes fatherly care of man crushed by life at Christian centre called Samaria.

Labyrinths, corridors, rooms, and men - they're stuck in there. How to find a way out?
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The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
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1652

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Liva Kalnina

We are all mutually connected with invisible and delicate lines. Even if we never meet, our actions and only the plain existence can influence and even change the lives and realities of other people. The small, mysterious coincidences make our lives real. They let us realize that we are all sharing the same space and time – the same universe.

A visual poem in which life-lines of 3 people are connected in direct as well as indirect ways. This clashing of different people’s realities happens with the help of a mailbox, which becomes one of the story’s characters itself.
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Elo

Original title: Elo

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Helen Takkin

Elo is a stubborn kindergarten child whose sole purpose is to escape the repression of her evil teacher. One day a new teacher Helena appears and Elo’s life changes completely.

Elo hates kindergarten. She does not understand why she has to stay in this prison, while there is a alluring and mysterious life waiting for her outside. Elo comes up with a plan how to escape that place for good. One day however a new and kind teacher Helena comes to work there. Elo falls completely in love with her, but will soon also feel her first heartbreak.
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Liis Lemsalu - Breaking The Rules

2015 | Students film, Music video | Director: Sven Olters

This music video tells us a story of a diva and a door boy, who have fallen in love with each other. Their relations ship is disrupted by her manager and the difference between classes. It’s time the diva to pull here self together and make an important decision – to choose between the career and her love.
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Nadja

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Janis Rižovs

"Nadja" is magical realistic story about finding something a man has lost in a journey of he's life. A successful businessman Janus is fed up with his current life and he decides to search for something he has lost. Not really knowing what it is that he’s after, he meets Nadja, who shows him a more simpler point of view of life. As Janus gets to know her, he finds out that she is not what he thought she’d be.
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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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The Look

Original title (in Estonian): "Pilk"

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Mairi Sõelsepp

A fiction film about a man who lives with a curse.

"Pilk" is a movie that shows how love can spring where it is least inspected and turn things upside down and downside up. It shows how even if sometimes it feels like everything is going in the wrong direction and there is no escape, things happens for a good reason and can have a positive outcome.
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