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Gorilla Tourism

Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

Rwanda in Eastern Africa is a place that already for the past twenty years, after the last civil war and genocide where almost a million people were killed, has been successful in avoiding ethnic conflicts and in constructing a new society of conciliation. The main source of income for the people in this country of the Hutu and the Tutsi is mainly agriculture; however, the strict rulers of the state want to turn this mountaneous country into one of the most modern and technologically developed small states of Africa. But the main source of financing this grand plan is mountain ...
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Life Before Life

Original title: Elu enne elu

2016 | Other types of animation, Animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

Truth is a relative concept. Depending on the point of view, everybody can be right.

In a beautiful flowery meadow, the miracle of life is taking place. A new life is born. The newborn butterfly Bruno flies into the wide world to look for something better, not realizing that he was born at the best place ever. Soon he finds himself at a big bush. The leaves of the bush give off a substance narcotic for insects. The busy life going on in the bush impresses Bruno. This is what he’s been looking for. But life and death walk hand in hand here, and just before landing on a leaf, Bruno is eaten up. Only ...
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Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad

2016 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder
Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher
Three Jewels

Original title in Estonian: Kolm juveeli

2016 | Anthropological, Students film, TV Show, Documentary | Director: Gerli Nõmm

Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.

Documentary film „Three Jewels“ tells the story about hopes and dreams of three Cambodian women of different generations. They are all connected by the same passion – the passion for traditional Khmer dharma chanting/Smot chanting. Our main character Srey Oun is a 35-year-old woman who has stayed single, and given up her dream of studying traditional music in Phnom Penh, to stay with her old parents and help them with backbreaking household works. 25 year-old Srey Pov, on the other hand, has it all – she is a famous Smot chanter and owns a business that enables her to support ...
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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Cherry Tobacco

Original title: Kirsitubakas

2014 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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Queue

Original title: Järjekord

2014 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets, Jaak Kilmi

Jaak Kilmi and Aleksandr Heifets portray seemingly random group of people who for some or another reason stand, sit or lie down while waiting in a shop queue.

In September 2013 the first H&M store opened its doors in Tallinn, Estonia. Young people grown up in the independent Estonia start gathering behind the store door already the previous night since they find queueing something exciting and romantic. At the same time, the oldest resident of Palumõisa village - Hilda Veski - walks to the grocery bus stop on the other side of Estonia. While following young girl Milena who lives in Tallinn and is waiting for the opening of the big clothing store as well as the old woman living in the countryside and taking care of her ...
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Daisy Petal Game II: The Photo

Origina title: Karikakramäng II: Foto

2013 | Short, Feature film | Director: Jan-Erik Nõgisto, Katrin Maimik

Chamberlike and realistic film about the human desire to find personal happiness despite the most unexpected conditions.

Young woman Maarit in her 30s dedicates all her time and energy to take care of her disabled father. Maarit sacrifices her life for looking after her capricious and annoying father. She has no romantic relationships with any men nor any children. But her biological clock keeps ticking. One day, Maarit meets a nine-year-old Rainer with whom a strange connection arises.
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Next Stop

Original title: Raudteemaja nr 3

2013 | Documentary | Director: Karin Reinberg