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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
The Lemniscate

Original title in Estonian: "Külaline"

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Teresa Väli

Film student Teresa Väli's short film about love and friendship and the passage of time.

On an ordinary Sunday before going to church Lee is announcing that she and Ülar are going to gave a visitor that day. Though it’s not an ordinary guest but a very symbolic person, wife’s classmate Kärt whom they call Skater. From there on he is taken by memories, remembering times when their connection with Skater was more intense, he on the other hand much younger and more vulnerable. His memories bring back his confusing feelings towards Skater. There is passion, fascination but also anger. And he is taken by the unknown once again. What is Skater like after all those years ...
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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Marta

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: German Golub

The film talks about the mourning and its subsequent period, which can greatly affect the psyche of the young person.

Marta is a young girl who has lost her mother and is forced to move to her father's new family. The apartment where she lives is the last point with her mother and she is afraid of losing it.
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Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.
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The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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Honeymoon

Original title (in Estonian): "Mesinädalad"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Enrico Barone

There is no real love without redemption, forgiveness and compassion.

Helen´s husband, Toomas, is in coma after stroke. Detached from life and work, the woman must cope with the discovery of her husband´ s adultery with a Latvian woman, Laima. Helen struggles between grief and anger and the process of mourning develops through questioning her won feelings towards the husband, towards the the acceptance of the existence of Laima. Helen can come back to love and music only through redemption and forgiveness.
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The First Spring

Original title (in Estonian): "Esimene kevad"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Eleen Änilane

A man who has lost his wife due to a serious illness learns to see the world in color again after a difficult experience.

Jaan, 79, buried his wife Antonina in the autumn, with whom he recently celebrated a golden wedding in the backyard. This spring, he will have to face unprecedented difficulties: how to deal with the silence in an empty house; how to keep motivated for daily routine tasks that Jaan has not had to do alone for more than 50 years; and how to find the strength for the roses planted with your husband to bloom this spring as well?
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Amalimbo

2016 | Animation, Cartoon, Other types of animation | Director: Juan Pablo Libossart

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo as she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ after the recent death of her beloved father.

Tipuana, a five year-old girl, experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to ‘the other side’ in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently dead father. A short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.
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Avec

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Akio Yuguchi

Akio Yuguchi’s film about his sister and family.

Avec is Akio Yuguchi's self-reflective film about personal grief and feelings of guilt after the death of a sibling. The pensive filmmaker aims at visualizing the long process of coming to terms with his inner conflict. The film creates a sense of ephemerality, crystallizing the spacious and temporal moments into a visual expression.
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