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Lydia

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hermes Brambat, Tarvo Mölder

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula.

The documentary portrays the acclaimed Song Festival conductor and music teacher Lydia Rahula. She has inspired the kids to love music for over five decades. However, her life's work is the Tallinn Boys' Choir. Besides vocal training, she has also raised generations of boys to be a gentleman. Thanks to her, many Estonian men are much better men. It's unbelievable that Lydia is in her seventies. She is extremely vital and full of energy. It is no problem for her even to have a football match with the boys. After all, age is nothing but a number, and she proves ...
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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Marju. The Call of the Heart

Original title: Marju. Südame kutse

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

A portrait film about Marju Länik, one of the best singers in the history of Estonian pop music.

How did Marju's successful and glamorous stage career of more than forty years begin and what kind of life does she live in today's Estonia? The camera followed the pop diva's actions for almost a year, and for the first time a woman who is exceptionally devoted to music opens herself up to viewers so thoroughly and honestly. Known as a skilled driver, Marju takes us to performances both on big stages, in modern clubs, and at cute little anniversary parties. But what is the thing that Marju regrets the most in her life?
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Melchior the Apothecary

Original title: Apteeker Melchior

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

Melchior Wakenstede is a clever and curious apothecary who, in addition to healing the sick, solves murders that shake the town. In a medieval world, where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is waiting at the door, and temptation can poison even the most noble ...
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New Life

Original title: Uus elu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion.

A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion. It offers an atmospheric gallery of a valuable way of life. Mrs Külli, Mrs Ulve, Mr Arnold, and their clients all play an important role in this cycle of life. Recycling, upcycling, sustainable fashion – these are the magic words of our modern times which slow down mass consumption and value repurposing. At the same time, repairing clothes has been commonplace in this meager land for hundreds of years.
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Ninja

2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Reinup

Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a life-threatening motorcycle trick in order to set a world record and bring attention to Keity so she could go to the trial motorbike World Championships.

Keity Meier, one of the few female stars of Estonian motor sports, has been dreaming of going to the World Championships for years. In order to raise the necessary funds, Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a complicated and life-threatening motorcycle stunt to set a world record and to bring more attention to Keity. Keity has to physically practice with her motorbike for days on a ramp built in the garden of her friends to make sure that the trick is a success and personally oversee the details of construction, safety and the organising of it. Doing the stunt also ...
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One, no one

Original title in Estonian: Üks, ei ühtki

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s thesis documentary plunges the filmmaker into his own personal chaos and searches for ways to get out of there. All in the form of an audiovisual diary.

For yourself you are one, for another no one. And all around there are thousands of opinions. A diary film about self-reflecting and connecting different states of mind, people and places from the past and the present. It is all soaked in the question: has the filmmaker really changed in the last 7 years?
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Onu Arvo

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The story of Estonia’s oldest youtuber, influencer and star-chef, Uncle Arvo. The story of food and hunger for life.
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Patarei partii

2022 | Other categories | Director: Liisa Rita Viitung
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Summertime

Original title: Veel üks peatus

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marje Tõemäe

This is a film about opportunities and choices, about fears and loneliness, about freedom and love. This is a story of one generation; a film about growing up. It is a sequel to a documentary "The Time Is Now" made 12 years ago, when we watched Karit, Doris, Fred and Joonas during their first year in school.

Karit, Doris, Joonas and Fred are graduating from high school and making their first steps towards independent life. There are so many opportunities and sometimes making choices can be difficult. The situation in the world is setting various challenges. There are many ongoing conflicts and the Covid situation is only magnifying them. But even in this situation one should stay young and enjoy being alive. This is a film about opportunities and choices, about fears and loneliness, about freedom and love. This is a story of one generation; a film about growing up. The film is a sequel to a documentary ...
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