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Shooter

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Helena Sikk

It is the story of a young couple where a man rounds up his wife, but a woman is never satisfied and is arrogant towards her husband. This treatment causes so much tension in the man that at the end of the day, he unleashes characteristics that he has never seen before.
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A Family

Original title: Perekond

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sulev Keedus

Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.

The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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Godspeed

Original title: Jumalaga

2004 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

Travel documentary by Kullar Viimne filmed in Europe in search of himself and God.

Kullar Viimne documents his tour in Europe while looking answers about the existence of God. The visual travelogue, recorded as a personal letter, is dedicated to the director's little brother who has passed away. Kullar travels as a hitchhiker, starting from Tallinn and while moving through Poland, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland he meets local people and tries to sort things out for himself.
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Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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Elf Disco

Original title: Päkapikudisko

2001 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Expedition by filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi to the hidden world of violence where the victims are children.

The children's world includes as much brutality as the world of adults. This is invisible violence since it often takes place as an intramural activity. Filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi study the cases of the following kids: Kätlin, Märt, Marek and Indrek. All of them have experienced more violence in their own way than most of the kids of their age. The film brings the viewer to a sad journey to the hidden and traumatic zone in society. The filmmakers try to talk to the children, parents and teachers about the subjects that are often referred to only in ...
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The Philosopher

Original title: Inimeste lemmik

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Piller

Documentary shows the daily life of philosopher Arnold von Keyserling and his wife Wilhelmine in Vienna - life full of astrology, Eastern philosophy, shamanism and mysticism.

Meelis Piller follows the daily life of philosopher Arnold von Keyserling and his wife Wilhelmine in Vienna. Their life is full of astrology, magic of numbers and geometry, Eastern philosophy, shamanism and mysticism. Arnold's father Earl Hermann Alexander von Keyserling was born and lived in Estonia. Arnold's life is in a way a symbol of contemporary society - noblemen who used to reside in luxurious castles are now pressed to live into one-bedroom apartments. Despite everything Arnold and Wilhelmine Keyserling have managed to remain the same people as they were born. Even if a bit tired they work in a ...
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Laughball

Original title: Naerupall

1984 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars
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Alma Teder in Askvägen on April 24,1983

Title in Estonian: Alma Teder Askvägenil 24.04.1983

1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Writer Alma Teder is talking to Helga Nõu about school issues, writing and her dream in her garden in Askvägen on April 24, 1983.

Writer Alma Teder is talking to Helga Nõu about school issues, writing and her dream in her garden in Askvägen on April 24, 1983.
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Fotorondo

Original title: Fotorondo

1978 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary by Peeter Tooming about the relationship between reality and art in photography, about photography as a means of recording and interpreting.

Director Peeter Tooming has dedicated himself to protecting old photographs that have stood the test of time - he introduces photo exhibitions in rural areas while presenting a photograph as an omnipotent means of recording historical events, as a work of art. Peeter Tooming is concerned whether people really understand the importance of photography in our lives. Do they really get the idea of the art of photography?
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The Girl in Black

Original title: Tütarlaps mustas

1966 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veljo Käsper

The drama directed by Veljo Käsper is based on the short story "The Girl in Black" by Lilli Promet. The visually enjoyable lyrical love story depicts human solitude and the way people relate themselves to religion. Starring Lithuanian film star Juozas Budraitis.

Young Saale, the girl in black with her small suitcase, comes to live with her aunt in a fishermen's village. Her only precious thing is a glass ball that is a memory of her mother whose death has left Saale alone in the world. She has been repelled and humiliated, so she is not expecting anything good to come from people. For her surprise, young fisherman Tanel is ready to walk with her by the sea even if they won't speak a word. He doesn't think Saale is strange and he won't ridicule her for her religious views. Slowly, Saale ...
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