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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Gross National Happiness

Original title: Üleriigiline õnn

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Anne-Mari Neider, Minna Hint
The Engine Diabolic

Original title in Estonian: Põrgu ekspress

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

Famous writer, Anton Tamm, is travelling by train. He is on his way to the city to get a life achievement award. On his trip he’s forced to share a cabin with a prisoner who’s travelling to get his sentence from the court. They talk and the conversation leads them to some suppressed memories, which tie them together closer than we would expect.
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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Float

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Jiri Stejskal
True Colours

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Margus Paju

“True Colours” is a story about a triangle of lonely people.

Nine months pregnant Marianne’s and her writer husband’s journey to the hospital crosses path with intellectual gas station owner Joosep who carries a colourful baggage of former lovers.
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Blindfold

2008 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Jekaterina Hitruhhina

The film is about a writer who has been hit by a mental crisis. He is ready to try everything to regain inspiration and stimulate his brain. Therefore, he suddenly finds himself in a completely different reality, seeing the world through a new perspective.
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Alchemist of Coal - A Film around Jaan Kross

Original title: Söerikastaja

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
The Easy Writer

2004 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Katja Kettu

The story of a woman who manipulates her own world and the men in it with a typewriter.

The story of a woman who manipulates her own world and the men in it with a typewriter. An unexpected pregnancy claims to have lethal consequences. A movie about exploitation and an extraordinary gift, which can be inherited.
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Juri Vella's World

Original title: Juri Vella maailm

2003 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

Liivo Niglas portrays Juri Vella, a Nenets of West Siberia, who has returned to reindeer herding in order to escape the expanding civilization.

Nenets Juri Vella is a social activist and writer living in West Siberia who wants to escape the attack of Western civilization and has created his own world. Ten years ago he left his village to go to taiga and become a reindeer breeder. He founded a reindeer farm including both a winter and summer camp and started to live there together with his oldest daughter's family. In order to save his grandchildren from the social and psychic problems, Juri has also established a school in the winter camp where two teachers work with five children.
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