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How to be a Grown-up 2

Original title: Kui ma oleksin suur 2

2009 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Aina Järvine

5-year-old Danny cannot understand why grown-ups only talk-talk-talk and never play together.

5-year-old Danny cannot understand why grown-ups, when they are married and thus always have someone to play with, only talk-talk-talk and never play together. Danny knows exactly how to be married: he and his wife would never sit and talk but they would play all kinds of games and have lots of fun.
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Morbus

Original title in Estonian: Koolja

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Vallo Toomla

"Morbus“ is a film about death and life together. It shows how different people deal with our own mortality and what it teaches us. Young boy watches old man to say good bye.
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The Wish Tree

Original title: Soovide puu

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Paakspuu

The first full-length feature film directed by Liina Paakspuu gives a cartoon-like description of the way the dreams and reality of common people clash. In order to escape this, one has to have confidence in themselves and some luck.

Liina comes to the city while hoping to find opportunities to start her own life there. To work as a cashier in the supermarket is definitely not Liina's dream job but she won't fit for those her relative Ave can offer her. Liina meets more and less strange people at her work and in the dormitory - and all of them have got wishes. Saara, Liina's neighbour, says that somewhere there is a tree of wishes - but how to recognize it among all other trees? And how can one realize what is the thing they wish the most? Liina ...
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The Hostage

Original title: Koer, lennuk ja laulupidu

2006 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Laila Pakalniņa
Good Hands

Original title: Head käed

2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The crime comedy directed by Peeter Simm is based on the story "Arnold" by Toomas Raudam. It is an adventurous tale about friendship, humanity and discovering love.

Professional pickpocket Margita from Riga fails in stealing a car and hides out in an Estonian small town. She wants to leave soon but her accomplice in Riga won't pick up the phone. She meets three Estonian men in the small town, all of them attracting attention and sympathy in Margita despite of their odd manners. To crown it all, an eight-year old Pavo is entrusted to Margita. She starts to feel that this place could be her new home, but then crime news appear in local newspapers.
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The Lady in the Car

Original title: Daam autos

1992 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

The psychological thriller directed by Peeter Urbla is based on the well-known novel "The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun" by S. Japrisot.

Helen is a young secretary at a successful advertising company who must take the company's new car to the garage. The test ride leads Helen to the chain of deja vu events, with the aim to push the girl towards suicide.
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CBC News - Estonian boy Kristo

Original title: CBC News - Kristo saabus ravile Montreali

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

CBC News's story about an Estonian boy who arrives in Canada to receive orthopedic treatment.

CBC News's story about a 4-year-old Estonian boy who arrives in Canada to receive medical treatment. Montreal Hospital has offered a reduced price for the boy's treatment, local Estonians in Toronto have also given their support. Malle Maria Leitham from Montreal Estonian Society comments on the story. The little boy's feet require orthopedic treatment. Kriso with his mother in the hospital room. Doctor Edward Said is speaking about his treatment in the news. The film shows Kristo's arrival in Toronto, Mother's Day concert in Estonian Baptist Church in Toronto, Kriso playing with her mother in the playground. In his hospital ...
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Kristo - Estonian Boy Treated in Canada

Original title: Kristo - eesti poiss, keda raviti Kanadas

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

A little Estonian boy arrives at Canada in order to get orthopedic treatment.

A four-year-old boy Kristo and his mother arrive on a bus. Mother is pushing the lightweight stroller where Kristo is sitting and holding his crutches. One of his legs needs orthopedic treatment. Kristo is using crutches when going to a playground - namely, he is jumping on one foot. His mother asks him to exercise with his handicapped foot. Kristo is playing with his toy cars in a sandbox while shoveling sand to the dumpcart. Finally he pours sand out of his boots and tries to ride a bicycle. Riding downhill with one foot goes well but it is complicated ...
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The Sunny Kids

Original title: Noorelt õpitud

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The symbolistic drama directed by Jüri Sillart is telling the story about the spring of young graduates in a small town of Estonia at the end of Stalinist era. The atmosphere of terror is reigning over the place while paralyzing the pursuits of freedom, love and dignity.
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A Man Who Never Was

Original title: Inimene, keda polnud

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The period film directed by Peeter Simm is dedicated to those working at radio stations in Estonia. Events from the lives of Imbi Valgemäe, Mari Möldre and Ruut Tarmo are brought to the viewer. Based on the oral and written memoirs of radio and theatre people.

Imbi Tamm has grown up together with the sounds and voices of radio broadcasting. She becomes an adult during the 1940s - the cataclysmic years in Estonian history. When she starts her career as a radio voice with high hopes and optimism in Stalinist Estonia, she will collide with the reality of the era where people's fate, sufferings and happiness depend on current ideology and government. The film is dedicated to the memory of the radio voices that have been accompanied the lives of many generations.
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