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Sauna bliss

Original title in Estonian: Sauna õndsus

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kamilla Abdullajeva

Documentary shows a couples sauna ritual and shows the importances of the ritual. Sauna master gave an interview, in which she talks in more detail about the ritual and the couple does the sauna ritual, guided by sauna master, in Iglupark.
Horsepower

Original title: Hobujõud

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kullar Viimne

Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator.

Horsepower is a unit that has dropped behind in time. Also dropping in time are the machines using fossil fuels, and even human relations, at least in the way that the older generations see them. In the 1920s, vehicles with combustible engines began to take over the work done by the horses. Just a hundred years later, virtual reality is in the beginning of its triumph, as is physical solitude that comes with it. Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his work days in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator. Turning the wheel ...
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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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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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Davai igrajem

2021 | Other categories | Director:
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Grandma, meet Mary

Original title: Vanaema, saa tuttavaks

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaire Russ

The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80 birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

At the center of the short film we find an ordinary family struggling with generational differences about what it means to love and live a full life. The main character Virve (Tiina Mälberg), a middle-aged perfectionist, has gone to great lengths to make sure her mother’s (Ines Aru) jubilee would be a perfectly traditional family celebration. Her plans are interrupted by her niece Silvia (Grete Konksi) who arrives to the party with her same-sex partner Mary (Jaanika Arum). Grandma and grandpa are clueless and welcome Mary to the table because they remember her as a childhood friend of their granddaughter. The ...
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Poop and Spring

Original title: Kaka ja kevad

2021 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: René Vilbre, Meelis Arulepp

A wee story of mighty love.

The movie spins a melodramatic tale of longing, friendship, and birth and death of love. Love dies often. People often die for love and die with their beloved. Yet love is essential for the circle of life to keep turning! A stray dog gives birth to the main character, Poop, on a marvellous spring day. The young Poop befriends a Sparrow, who educates him in ways of life. Observing loving sparrow family’s ventures from his shanty throughout autumn and winter, a desire for a beloved arises in Poop’s chest. Along with spring, Poop discovers a glorious Buttercup growing right next to ...
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The Real Rannap

Original title: Päris Rannap

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksander Ots, Kaidi Klein

Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the desire to pull the mask off the maestro and show the real Rannap to the extent possible.

Composer and pianist Rein Rannap’s contribution to Estonian music is priceless, but his personality is very complex and contradictory. In numerous TV shows, viewers have met exactly the Rannap that he chooses to show them at that very moment. He has a superb ability to put on a mask and present carefully composed text in interviews. When cameras are rolling, Rein slips into his role. He can play the role very colourfully, creating conflicts and throwing juicy comments at singers at rehearsals. The authors of the film were above all attracted to the personality of the composer, driven by the ...
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U.q.

2021 | Feature film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Murd

A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.

To understand the international phenomenon of Uku Kuut means to understand the ability of different musical niches, sub-genres and hidden creative explosions to not only exist, butflourish, completely independently of the mainstream. Kuut’s life, mothered by Maryn E.Coote (who you may know as the Estonian Jazz diva Marju Kuut), took him from the Soviet Union to refuge in Sweden, music studios in Los Angeles, back to a re-independent Estonia and later, fighting ALS, to speakers all around the world. A Greek comedy captured on 8mm, VHS and BETA tape.
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Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova