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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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In Bed With A Writer

Original title: Kirjanikuga voodis

2019 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi
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Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway

2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Miguel Llansó

Two special agents are tasked with protecting the computer programme that runs a future metropolis. However, the ‘Soviet Union’ virus soon starts wreaking havoc. A delirious ride!

Special Agent DT Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin. The night he’s about to present his resignation letter a strange cyber virus attacks the agency’s operating system effectively sidetracking his plans. Traveling into virtual reality dimensions, Gagano and his partner will infiltrate the system to eradicate the virus. Things however, will not go as planned when the virus takes over the system and starts creating games to compete against itself, leaving the entire world’s stability in jeopardy. Are Gagano and the CIA peons in these sinister games? While the virus capabilities start ...
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Memm Manja

2019 | Animation, Students film | Director: Lisa Scharf
Mommy

Original title in Estonian: Emme

2019 | Exercises (Fiction), Students film | Director: Raoul Kirsima

Raoul Kirsima’s film „Mommy“ is based on Leo Vissak’s script about child abuse and the wish to escape from reality. There is a strong emphasis on sound design and elements of animation.

A young boy home alone draws pictures of a big scary monster and a loved one when he is interrupted by a loud knock on the door and the arrival of his drunk father. With a deep sigh the boy leaves his drawings behind to find peace and reunion with his mother.
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Reinhold Rottermani

2019 | Short, Students film | Director: Khaled M. Almasri

The film about a young student who meets her father for the first time through his life and belongings left behind.

A college girl who works as a waitress receives news of the death of her father. She doesn’t seem at all affected, and once she arrives at home, Piret and her mom go to the father’s house. Piret meets her dad for the first time through the life and belongings he left behind.
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Scandinavian Silence

Original title: Skandinaavia vaikus

2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Martti Helde

We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.

Film in three parts, two characters and one obsession: to prevent the past from taking over... Psychological drama with the elements of thriller tells about the reuniting of two characters. Through the winter landscape, they take a journey together that open up the reasons of a violent event that happened years ago. Unsolved past leads the characters to make a choice that will define their future.
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Snapped

Original title: Murrang

2019 | Animation, Students film | Director: Anna Lauretta Eespere
So they would not be lost

Original title in Finnish: Jotta he eivät joutuisi kadotukseen

2019 | Short, Students film | Director: Ville Niemi

A 25-year old girl with cancer decides to be cryonized and die, but she is awakened 70 years later.

A 25-year old girl, JS, suffering from an untreatable brain cancer decides to stop cancer treatment and wants to be kryonized. Her mother is against the procedure. Alexander, the Leader of the Cryonics Institute lies to JS and mother, so that they can't see themselves anymore. JS dies alone. She is revived 2098 in the same hospital room where she died. Her Mother and Alexander are still alive, same age as they were when she died over 70 years ago. Soon she starts to realize that the future isn’t as real and beautiful as it first seemed.
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The Lemniscate

Original title in Estonian: "Külaline"

2019 | Short, Students film | Director: Teresa Väli

Film student Teresa Väli's short film about love and friendship and the passage of time.

On an ordinary Sunday before going to church Lee is announcing that she and Ülar are going to gave a visitor that day. Though it’s not an ordinary guest but a very symbolic person, wife’s classmate Kärt whom they call Skater. From there on he is taken by memories, remembering times when their connection with Skater was more intense, he on the other hand much younger and more vulnerable. His memories bring back his confusing feelings towards Skater. There is passion, fascination but also anger. And he is taken by the unknown once again. What is Skater like after all those years ...
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