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In your mind

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kelli Andermann

The documentary talks about two young women Kertu and Mariin, who want to make a music video based off Mariin’s song. They don’t have much experience with film-making, which makes the process more interesting, because they have to face some problems and humorous moments.

Long-time friends Kertu and Mariin, who do not have much experience with the camera or film-making, come up with the idea of making a music video. Mariin had already made the song that starts the idea ready. Shooting days of the video are carried out in two days, during which there are many obstacles, for example, camera lenses are not suitable and the girls are running out of ideas. Through humorous moments, we can see how the friends bring their spontaneous idea to life.
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Butterfly Hunters

2020 | Documentary, Making of | Director: Urmas Reisberg

An autobiographic documentary about young filmmakers' trip through Europe in search of a producer for short film Butterfly Man.

A 17-minute documentary about filmmaking. Two Estonian talents, Edina and Kristo, travel through Europe in search of a producer for their short film Butterfly Man. The roadtrip ends with a 10-minute pitching session in front of an international audience. Accompanied by hypnotic guitar landscapes and remarkably bad camerawork, boundaries between dreams and real, past and future, screenplay and actual events dissappear.
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Constructing Albert

Title in Estonian: Alberti leiutamine

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Laura Collado, Jim Loomis

Albert Adrià has all the ingredients of a creative genius. Playing a key role in the creation of elBulli, the greatest restaurant in history, wasn't enough. Escaping the shadow of his famous brother Ferran, Albert is seeking his own success.

The most important culinary revolution of modern times took place at elBulli, a restaurant in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. Ferran Adrià is the famous maestro people know, but behind elBulli’s success was also a hidden genius: Albert, Ferran’s younger brother. Four years after closing of elBulli, Albert has decided to become master of his own world, building 5 unique restaurants in the centre of Barcelona. Enigma, the jewel in the crown of this gastronomic empire, will prove to be his greatest hurdle. Will Albert escape the shadow of his famous brother and enter the Pantheon of great ...
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Winny Puhh: maailma veidraim bänd

2013 | Director: Jaan Laugamõts
Potato Republic

Original title: Kartuli Wabariik

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kätlin Kaganovitš

Documentary about Tarmo Ladva, president of Potato Republic to be established in Laanemetsa village in Valga county, Estonia, and about the process of putting his expansive ideas into practice.

Artist and event organizer Tarmo Ladva wants to achieve his goal to establish Potato Republic in Laanemetsa village, Taheva parish that is located in a peripheral region of Estonia. Potato Republic would serve as a museum to introduce potato as the symbol of Estonian food and to remember history. His high-flown ideas about creating a bath cinema and heritage theatre, however, get stuck due to financial difficulties and general scepticism. The man full of enthusiasm won't give up and gives it another try.
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Saint George

Original title: Püha Jüri

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Riho Västrik

After his daughter's death, Juri Zhelobetsky from Aruküla started to renovate the local orthodox church.

Juri Zhelobetsky's 16-year-old daughter Elviira was stabbed to death in Aruküla in 2006. The loss of his dear child made Juri to rewind his former course of life and to search for the answer to the question: why? One day when driving by the Orthodox church in ruins at the crossing of Aruküla and Jüri roads, Juri felt enormous anguish. When following the irresistible feeling of pain, he realized that he was repeatedly given a sign – that he must restore the church to its former glory. Having this faith in him helps Juri to move on with his everyday ...
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Ten patriotic speeches

Original title: Kümme isamaa kõnet

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Valentin Kuik

Documentary about Ants Paju's long-time dream to erect a statue of plowing Kalevipoeg in Põltsamaa. His dream comes true thanks to his extraordinary perseverance and donations by numerous people.

Ants Paju is about to fulfill his long-time dream to erect a statue of plowing Kalevipoeg in memory of all farmers and for uniting Estonian people with their country and the past. The monumental sculpture on the 127th kilometre on Tallinn-Tartu road is Ants's gift to his fatherland and his nation. On one hand, the documentary is a portrait of a man who fulfills his dream, on the other hand the film generalizes the difficulties of carrying out such a monumental project. Ants Paju's exuberant energy has attracted numerous donators, people from the field of culture and loca government, sportsmen ...
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The Leigo Lakes

Original title: Leigo järved

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about Tõnu Tamm, owner of a tourism farm and a concert promoter.

The documentary has followed Tõnu Tamm's activities during two years during which he as the owner of Leigo farm has supported organizing summer concerts in the summer of 2001 and designed the beautiful landscape around the lakes of his farm. The laconic documentary portrait with scarce details about a seemingly effortless entrepreneur who creates large-scale visions and puts them into practice with the help of a few men and an excavator. He himself takes fully part of the hard work. Tamm's dream is to unite nature and music. As an Estonian, he is typically stubborn and persevering and needs ...
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