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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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The Last Ones

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Lonely Island

Original title: Üksik saar

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The lyrical and grotesque mosaic directed by Peeter Simm depicts people as lonely islands; from the further distance they look like an archipelago. The film is an Estonian-Belorussian-Latvian co-production.

The death of an old Gypsy. A girl on a railway track. A son's hatred towards his father. A girl in a wheelchair. These are the keywords that build up a story. A railway, a train, and the novel "Anna Karenina" by Lev Tolstoy bring together the destinies of three families, several lonely people, old friends and total strangers. All of them have to face problems caused by misunderstandings and unspoken messages. During their journey, they become more tolerant and understanding.
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Priceless

Original title: Priceless

2012 | Feature film, Short | Director: Heigo Lepla

What could replace money in the materialistic world in order to make people passionately experience absurd situations?

Story about a man who has everything one can get for money. However, he finds new challenges and methods in order to achieve his goals. His late night visit to the office building takes an unexpected turn, including Hollywood-ish dust-up, criminal police, celebrities and misunderstandings.
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Tõsise näoga mees

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

A portrait of a painter, philosopher, motocross racer, writer, and farmer. A man who livesas he chooses, still without breaking the law. He doesn’t care what people think. The chap resembling baron Musen and Estonian drifter and womanizer Nipernaadi lives partly in his dreams. Meet Jürna, a peculiar but sound character enriching a dull life.
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Farts of Fury

Original title: Kormoranid ehk nahkpükse ei pesta

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

The black comedy directed by Andres Maimik and Rain Tolk about a bunch of elderly men - former members of a rock band - who won't hear of living in peaceful retirement. They want to reunite and become again successful at any price. Whatever they do, things will get worse instead. Numerous Estonian public figures appear in the film and the soundtrack includes a huge amount of Estonian music, both old and contemporary.

Kaiser, the lead singer of a former rock group won't put up with approaching old age and decides to call his old band members together. Kaiser's ambition is to return to the big stage with his buddies. Despite the initial resistance of other fellows, Kaiser will be successful, at least partly so. It is a fast-paced comedy full of humor and consolation, telling the story about people who despite all obstacles strive for their goal.
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Surmaretk

2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Tõnis Lepik, Riina Valmsen
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Where Souls Go

Original title: Kuhu põgenevad hinged

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

This is the second feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet telling the story about two girls in their teens searching for identity and discovering friendship and love.

Ann is a fifteen-year-old girl facing big changes in her life - she has a stepfather and soon her stepbrother will be born. However, Ann's mother is nervous and jealous, even towards her daughter. Ann won't get the reasons for endless arguments and worrying. When she vistits the satanists's website, she talks to someone named Seth about fulfilling wishes with the help of a very special prayer. Ann says the spontaneous prayer concerning her unborn stepbrother. When doctors discover a heart defect in the newborn, Ann is overwhelmed with fear and wants to take the prayer back so she will ...
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Happy landing: Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye

Original title: Kass kukub käppadele: Pauli laululaegas

1999 | Feature film, Short | Director: Rainer Sarnet

Short film directed by Rainer Sarnet bringing the viewer to the world through the looking-glass, or behind the mirror, where our copies live. They reflect us back, at the right time, in the right place.

The mirror image of a variety show artist falls in love with his wife. While refusing to obey the strict order, he breaks through the mirror to the human world. What's the plan when the reflection becomes fatally dangerous? When the real life and the world behind mirror mingle, it will be confusing to understand who is "real" and who is "the other". The other self of a person can be tempting and confusing, it can become angry, lie or burst out uncomfortable truth. Nobody is protected from the other self.
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