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Kul Tur

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Alexander Marcus Müller

A swedish busdriver talks about his job as a bus driver, driving people to Tallinn so they can buy cheaper alcohol.

The Documentary „Kul-Tur“ takes place in the harbour near the center of Tallinn. Jürgen Holmgren, the main character, is bus driver and works for a Swedish bus company. Beginning in Stockholm, Jürgen picks up his passengers along the way to Tallinn. After a very short city sightseeing tour, they come back to the harbour to enter the „alcoholic adventure“. During the interview with Jürgen, he explains the motivations of his passengers and clients as well as his personal risks to stay competitive.
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Terapeut

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
Harbor

Original title (in Finnish): "Satama"

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

Satama” is an observative short documentary film about the demolishion of a squat called ”Satama Social Center”, which has been a safe haven, a shelter, for youngsters fighting against commerciality, individualism and capitalism in Helsinki, Finland. The film depicts the activist community's and its particpants' arranged events during the final months of the squat, before the inevitable triumph of the capitalistic values prevail.
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Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time

Original title: Monoloogid 3D

2011 | Documentary | Director: Arko Okk

The documentary gives a minimalistic portrait about Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia, through the recollections by his contemporaries.

President Lennart Meri is being remembered by his contemporaries Ain Kaalep, Erast Parmasto, Andres Tarand, Veli-Olavi Klami, Aleksandr Bertelov, Ignar Fjuk and Eino Tamberg. Their recollections reanimate the hidden paths and seek for the meaning that was once born there. This is the first 3D documentary produced in Estonia.
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Construction Artist Toomas Rein

Original title: Ehituskunstnik Toomas Rein

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary by Peeter Brambat about architect Toomas Rein.

Documentary introduces Toomas Rein, a unique and creatively uncompromising construction artist. For several decades, Rein has been one of the most influential persons in Estonian architecture, one of the top architects. Among his life's work (including about 120 buildings and projects), the objects that Toomas Rein designed when working under EKE Projekt in 1967-1986 emerge the most - it was the era when innovative heads of collective farms commissioned modern office buildings from architects. Toomas Rein has been an active architect also at the beginning of 21st century. Documentary follows the construction of a grand project in Laulasmaa - the ...
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A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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Kihnu Wedding

Original title: Kihnu pulm

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

The documentary introduces wedding traditions and rites in Kihnu island, Estonia.

A big event is going to take place in Kihnu island - an authentic Kihnu wedding party that lasts for three days. Meelis Leas has proposed Raili Oad and they get married in July 2007. On the first day their marriage will be registered in Pärnu vital statistics office. Then the couple will be taken to the island by boat and all residents of the island will greet them at the harbour. Then the bride goes to her home with her relatives and the groom does the same with his relatives. After sharing a collective meal it is time to ...
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Kinnunen

Original title: Kinnunen

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andri Luup

The romantic comedy directed by Andri Luup tells the story of a Finnish man and an Estonian woman who find each other despite of hardships.

Another Finnish guy has fallen overboard from a ferry at the port of Tallinn. He has come to Estonia in order to find himself a decent wife. "Kinnunen" is a comedy about Juha Kinnunen and Estonian teacher Õie Kannike who happen to meet and start teaching each other. Kinnunen is not an ordinary man. He is a Finnish man. Õie is not an ordinary woman. She is an Estonian woman. It is not easy to find common ground. Because one of them is a woman and the other one is a man.
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On the Other Side of Leprosy

Original title: Teisel pool pidalitõbe

2006 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea, Peeter Simm
Enn Johannes

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Enn Johannes, an acknowledged metal artist.

Estonian metal artist Enn Johannes (b. 1936) designs and creates medals for the laureates of Kristjan Raud Art Prize and Konrad Mägi Award. The artist and art teacher in his best creative form is forced to give up his apartment in Tallinn and job at the Estonian Academy of Arts; he currently lives in a desert village on the island of Hiiumaa where the only residents are a few elderly people. The annual commemorative medals for state awards of culture and sports come from the same small village of Hiiumaa island where Enn Johannes leads his freelancer life together ...
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