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Fear

Original title: Hirm

2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anri Rulkov

The last work by film director Anri Rulkov, a short film with the elements of horror. The psychological drama studies the deepest subliminal layers of the human past.

Odd characters and strange atmosphere create dark background to events that take place in a remote medical institution where Helen travels to identify her unexpectedly passed away mother. Helen has not seen her mother for the last twenty years. In an appalling environment, the young woman discovers her own brother among Dr. Schulze's patients. Helen vaguely remembers the existence of her brother through disturbing childhood dreams. The fear from the past as well as ignorance make Helen an easy pray for the chief doctor who will practise strange treatment methods on the young woman. Helen has to make a choice ...
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The Table

Original title: Laud

2004 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Jelena Girlin, Mari-Liis Bassovskaja, Urmas Jõemees

Vivat, crescat, floreat vagina!

Roza has given birth to many children, all with different men. The protagonist is Rita, her youngest daughter, whose fate - like her mother's - is to endure the effort and pain of giving birth. How and whether she can cope with this, or the world?
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Somnambulance

Original title: Somnambuul

2003 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The second feature film directed by Sulev Keedus is a phychological drama about human fear of tomorrow and about hopeless pursuits in order to keep one's spiritual balance in Estonia that has been recently occupied.

The Coastal Swedes have left their village in Estonia to flee from the war. Only Gottfried the lighthouse keeper has stayed there. His young daughter Eetla decides to stay with his father. Here she is now together with his father - facing her own stress and the Soviet soldiers in the village. Fear of unknown makes Eetla escape to her dreams. While standing on the edge of the sky, the earth and the sea, Eetla struggles between reality and dreams, life and death. Kasper, the doctor who hides himself in the lighthouse, tries to support the girl but even he ...
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Alone on the Swing

Original title: Üksinda kiigel

2001 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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The Moon

Original title: Sellised kolm lugu: Kõrbekuu

1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ervin Õunapuu

Short film directed by Ervin Õunapuu about guilt, penitence and redemption.

In his deathbed, surgeon Jonathan Kaufman confesses a secret to the priest. Kaufman has not told anyone about it for the last twenty years. West Africa, the year 1972. After an emergency landing, an airplane is in the middle of a vast desert. Three men have survived: pilot Jonas von Richthoffen, navigator Abraham Holland and surgeon Jonathan Kaufman. All communications have been destroyed in fire, the men have lost touch with the outer world. Within one month, their water supply is about to run out. The last time they ate was on the day of landing when there were caviar ...
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Father

1998 | TV feature, TV Short | Director: Mart Kivastik
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Who can be happy and free in Russia

Original title: Kellel on Venemaal hea elada?

1998 | Documentary | Director: Natalia Jalviste, Juho Jalviste
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I love you

Original title: Ma armastan sind

1996 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peter Herzog

Short film directed by Peter Herzog about the encounters between a man and a woman in dreams. When they wake up from the dreams, they don't know each other.

The Woman is looking for the Man to whom she says the phrase "the eyes of a blue dog" in a dream. In the dreams, the Man and the Woman know each others. The Woman is searching for the Man also outside the dream world, but the Man won't remember anything that has been said in the dream nor he won't understand the Woman who constantly tries to recall the Man of these words everywhere. "The eyes of a blue dog" would help them to recognize each other when awake. The film is based on the novel "The Eyes of ...
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Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Brides of Death

Original title: Surmamõrsjad

1990 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Tauno Kivihall

It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp.

Based on a ballady by an Estonian poet Marie Under. It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp, because enemies have killed their fiance's and devastated their land. The action of the film is played in controversary sequence - the re-meeting with their fiance's in the finale of the film acquires meaning of resurrection.
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