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Bad Hair Friday

Original title: Vasaku jala reede

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Kõpper, Arun Tamm

The first full-length feature film directed by Andres Kõpper and Arun Tamm is a crime/adventure film spiced by black humour. The roads of several different groups of people cross during one violent night.

Three friends get together at a bus station on a regular Friday morning - and all they think about is beer and pretty girls. In 25 hours, they will be in the middle of violent events where the number of dead bodies keeps growing. With the help of an old sports bag and a 70-year-old gun, eight different stories are being interwoven in the film, including great amount of colourful characters: criminals quoting Nietzsche; a veteran of World War II who imitates Clint Eastwood while trying to make the world a better place; a group of junkies who have flushed ...
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Beggar Writer's House

Original title: Vaeste kirjanike maja

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate relationship with the world that writers expose. So when we keep our poets in a special house and observe them like we watch animals in the zoo, listen how they shout and howl their poetry, we are partly freed from our everyday identity and become romantic poetry desperadoes too. Take a closer look ...
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Villa Antropoff

2012 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?
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Jaan from Hell

Original title in Estonian: Põrgu Jaan

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk
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The Flower of Sun

Original title: Päikeselill

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaanis Valk

Piet Boerefijn is a Dutchman who has founded Estonian Food Bank. His thinks his duty is to make society a more rightful and friendlier place.

Dutchman Piet Boerefijn who lives in Estonia has founded Estonian Food Bank that provides food for those in need - indigent families with many children, single parents, unemployed, people in need of help and in trouble. Piet's human essence is based on the feeling of justice, empathy and helpfulness. For his socially compassionate and judicious work, Piet has received orders both from the President of the Republic of Estonia and the Queen of the Netherlands. Piet has faced the reality of local life in every social layer. He has met top politicians as well as the poorest people in need; ...
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Timeless

Original title: Aegumatu

2011 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

According to director Andres Sööt the film has not been made for those who know nothing or don't want to know about the deportation that took place in June 1941. The film has been dedicated to those who can never again talk about this event, those who passed away because of the unjustness.

There are crimes that won't expire. One June night in 1941, Soviet authorities deported more than 10,000 people to Siberia from Estonia. Those who stayed alive in Siberia and made it back to homeland will have the chance to speak in the film. FIlmmaker Andres Sööt, whose family was also among those breaking apart because of the deportation in 1941, dedicates the film to all those sent to Siberia. This is a timeless responsibility - not to forget.
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Urban Tundra

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Robi Uppin, Maria Kivirand

The short documentary follows the life of Kopli's soup kitchen during Christmas 2010, when a powerful snowstorm "Monica" hit Tallinn. The film is about faith and the fight against hope and despair.
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Children of Karosta

Original title (in Latvian): "Karostas berni"

2010 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Janis Jurkovskis

This film examines social conditions surrounding community of Karosta ‐ a place that once used to be a Soviet military base, today has become a place for a constant struggle of survival.

“Children of Karosta” tells a story of Viktorija’s family, living in a former Soviet military base in Latvia – Karosta. The surrounding environment, its isolation and the national socio‐economic situation has put these people under the test of survival. After a loss of an apartment Viktorija and her eight children look for ways to escape the common destiny, surrounding Karosta community.
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The Messenger

Original title (in Estonian): "Sõnumitooja"

2009 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Leeni Linna

Ten years ago two 13-year old Tibetan boys escaped over the Himalayas like hundreds of other refugees. Since the escape one has had no contact with his parents, the other seldom calls home. It is too risky to keep in contact and unthinkable to return. Now after studying several years in Dharamsala India, both boys send their video messages to their parents in Tibet, delivered personally by an Estonian messenger.
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BAM – Railroad to Nowhere

Original title: BAM

2008 | Documentary | Director: Jouni Hiltunen

Documentary by Finnish director Jouni Hiltunen about the enthusiasm, hopes and reality of railway constructors in Baikal-Amur district.

In 1974, Leonid Brezhnev, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of USSR, called for the Soviet youth to construct the 3500-kilometre-long arterial railway including a city and 200 stations in Baikal-Amur district, Russia (BAM) in order to use the immense amount of mineral resources of the area. Thousands of young people, including Estonians, went to work in Siberia, while believing in Brezhnev's idea. The railway was being constructed simultaneously from both ends and the top event was planned to be when the ends would finally meet. Brezhnev died in 1982 and BAM was not even close to completion. It was ...
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