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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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Porcelain Madness

Original title: Nõudehullud

2022 | Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness. In one and a half years, tens of thousands of people have been infected with a disease that makes them tirelessly hunt for nostalgic cups and dishes, soviet-era glassware and antique tureens. At the centre of documentary is desirable tableware that triggers the lust for hunt in otherwise normal, educated people, taking their money and sleep. Through carefully selected, colourful characters, we delve deep into the phenomenon. Porcelain aficionados range from the mortally ill Helena, who proclaims herself “mad for porcelain until death ...
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Estonian Funeral

Original title: Eesti matus

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

Andres, a young man who sells retirement insurances in shopping centres, meets a dark-skinned girl and falls in love.Lee, the newfound girl of his dreams called, is an open-minded world traveler who does not understand the „workaholism“ of Estonians nor the need to own land at all costs. With naive dreams, the young lovers want to go travel the world in search of happiness, but they have to take an unexpected small detour first. Andres has to go to his grandfather's funeral and unsuspectingly takes Lee with him. At the funeral, a colorful company of friends, family and neighbours have gathered ...
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Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova
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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Eesti nafta

2020 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

A Mother and daughter, searching for an answer to what could be the fuel for life in a small country Estonia. One of them grows Nettle, the other one is a famous youtuber.

Margit has left her life, career and apartment in the big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow Nettle. She believes that there is a power in this plant, that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched Nettle and it’s qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an enterpreneur?Margit’s daughter Nele, a well known youtuber, will try to help out. So in ...
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Memorial Day

Original title: Mälestuspäev

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andrus Tuisk

This film was completed as part of a short film contest: A 1-minute film for the digital year. The competition was announced by Estonian Film Institute and the Year of Digital Culture 2020 in the circumstances of emergency situation due to the pandemic spread of the coronavirus in the world.

This film was completed as part of a short film contest: A 1-minute film for the digital year. The competition was announced by Estonian Film Institute and the Year of Digital Culture 2020 in the circumstances of emergency situation due to the pandemic spread of the coronavirus in the world.
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Chasing Unicorns

Original title: Ükssarvik

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.

Based on true stories, this is comedy-drama about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world. Õie, an accountant from a small town accidentally stumbles into the tech scene of her home-country Estonia — a place where startups are a “national sport” and almost everyone has one. She is joined by a serial failure Tõnu, who is always trying one more time. Fast-paced and fun movie, based on true stories of startup founders, gives an authentic picture of the highs and lows of the crazy tech world, from Estonia to Silicon Valley — and back.
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Chasing Ponies

Original title: Ameerika suvi

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States. This movie touches us all, as summer work in the US has become something of a phenomenon among students in Europe - everyone knows someone who has spent a summer in USA - some experiences good, some not so good, each a story in it's own right. This movie is your chance to experience their adventures firsthand. Without sacrificing 3 months of your life. Filming took place in September 2015. It was all ...
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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher