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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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Back to Europe

Original title: Kapsapea 2 ehk Tagasi Euroopasse

1997 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

The film “Back to Europe“ is a parody of the classic adventure film genre.

The main character of the film, farmer Saamuel, has just become free from the Soviet Union and is in no hurry to join the European Union. Rather, he forces Europe to reckon with him in the course of hair – raising adventures and dangerous situations.
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The Firewater

Original title: Tulivesi

1994 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hardi Volmer

The adventure film directed by Hardi Volmer tells about the alcohol smuggling between Estonia and Finland in 1920s. The story is made contemporary through depicting the corrupted authorities.

When Eerik and his companions go to another night sea trip, they are aware of the danger to get caught by the border guard. Spirit smuggling to Finland during the era of the Dry Law pays off so the risk has to be taken. After all, he needs a house to live in with Hilda, and a boat in order to work at the sea. And even if something goes wrong, an old man Nymann will help out with his money. Yet, Aleks, the new chief at the borderguard office, has different views. Having fought at the Estonian War ...
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Funeral of Ignas Tõrmaküla in St. Peter's Church Toronto

Original title: Ignas Tõrmaküla matus Toronto Peetri kirikus

1993 | Amateur films | Director:

Funeral service of Ignas Tõrmaküla in St. Peter's Church in Toronto on March 5, 1993.

Brothers in arms and friends of Ignas Tõrmaküla pay their last respects at Tõrmaküla's funeral service held in a church in Toronto on March 5, 1993. Tõrmaküla was a statesman of the first Republic of Estonia and a consistent freedom fighter during the War of Independence, later an expatriate Estonian.
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Russian Metal and US $-Kiss

Original title of the film "Vene metalli ja US $ suudlus"

1993 | Documentary | Director: Rein Kotov, Artur Talvik

Documentary about Russian metal smuggling via Estonia.
Come Back, Lumumba

Original title: Tule tagasi, Lumumba

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Aare Tilk

The family film directed by Aare Tilk is based on the story "A Tale About Rein" by Toomas Raudam. The film tells about the lost and the found, friendship, caring for each other, and the events of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The culture centre of a small Estonian town is the place where the local people gather - where schoolchildren come to see popular films of 1960 previewed by the newsreels imbued with Soviet ideology to, and where young people meet in cinema and at dancing nights and fall in love. Aurora, the new head of the culture centre, and Lumumba change the lives of Rein and his father who are crushed with grief. Together with their friend Elsa, the boys decide to introduce Rein's father to Aurora in order to make them feel less lonely. It will turn out that ...
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Riigivanem I

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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The State Elder, Part II

Original title: Riigivanem II

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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Vana mees tahab koju

1991 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask
Family Photos

Original title: Perekonnapildid

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Valentin Kuik

A feature film directed by Valentin Kuik is based on his short story "The Formula", telling about the young graduates of a small town in Estonia in 1960s.

The graduates of a small town are on tenterhooks - the finals will be soon over and the young people will start lives of their own. They don't know what to expect - the school has taught them one thing, their parents something else, and the town shows them something completely else. There is something complicated between Kalle and the town and eventually their relationship will end up in a mess. The relationship between Siim and Evi seems to be fine but even they will face misunderstandings. During the last weeks at school the love, faith and expectations of the ...
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