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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Portugal

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Lagle

Lauri Lagle's first feature film is profound and smooth like a summer's night. It is a physical progression and a mental journey towards something other than a mere geographical location on a map.

Karina and Martin are in a pleasant relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviour can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it's this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question - is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost. The characters in the film are looking for a place of love and understanding in the world. Their journey is playful, mellow and thoroughly human. It ...
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Risti aarded

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu
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Take It or Leave It

Original title: Võta või jäta

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

One sleepy Saturday morning a 30-year-old construction worker Erik gets some earth shattering news: his ex-girlfriend Moonika whom he hasn’t even seen for the past six months is about to go into labour. She however is not ready for motherhood and if Erik doesn’t want the kid either, the little girl will be put up for adoption. Take it or leave it!
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Why Don't I Leave?

Original title: Miks ma siis ei lähe?

2018 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

Three Estonian women in London (not to mention the children).

Kati, Triin and Siiri moved to London for a year or two to learn English and gain new experiences. Today, over ten years has passed, they have started families and seems like the future is now abroad. The longing for homeland has remained but returning to Estonia is frightening. Why is going home suddenly so complicated?
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Before

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hõbe Ilus

The film portrays a winter morning of a family, that lives at the countryside in South-Estonia.

Lee is a 7-year-old girl who lives at a rural countryside house with her parents and little brother Leek. This is a quiet film about them waking-up and getting ready for school – somewhat of a daily ritual, but during the winter time this routine requires flash-lights.
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The Battles with the Words

Original title in Estonian: "Sõnalahingud"

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Reeli Reinaus

The film observes a daily life of speech therapist Kadi in Adeli Rehabilitation Center and efforts which three kids make to get along with words.

The film observes the daily life of the speech therapist Kadi in Adeli Rehabilitation Center. Emil, Lilit and Remi are the kids who try to get along with words better. Kadi tries to make their battle with words easier by engaging different games into this process. We see how Kadi manages her task, but also learn which is her own personal relationship to letters and words.
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Three August Days

Original title: Kolm päeva augustis

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Madli Lääne

In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite over a shared bottle of American soda.
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War

Original title: Sõda

2017 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Keedus

War is a story about a fighter for “peace”, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia.

In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier’s suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo’s girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train. His last message to those who know him is to forgive him. In Dino Buzzati’s novel The Tartar Steppe nameless soldiers, who serve a nameless emperor in a nameless country, are waiting for ...
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Chasing Ponies

Original title: Ameerika suvi

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States. This movie touches us all, as summer work in the US has become something of a phenomenon among students in Europe - everyone knows someone who has spent a summer in USA - some experiences good, some not so good, each a story in it's own right. This movie is your chance to experience their adventures firsthand. Without sacrificing 3 months of your life. Filming took place in September 2015. It was all ...
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