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Deserted

2021 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

In the desert you’ll find your soul.

On an assignment to the abandoned, lawless and apocalyptic Sinai coast a Swedish photo journalist Ingrid (Frida Westerdahl) is kidnapped by a gang of Palestinian men and hidden in the desert. Soon Ingrid finds herself falling in love with the most sympathetic of the abductors, Ali (Ali Suliman). Ali's boss Moussa (Firas Taybeh) suspects that something is going on and becomes increasingly dangerous and violent. This is a film about an all-conquering love between people from completely different cultural backgrounds who find each other in the desert. It is in the desert where the soul becomes naked and ...
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Rough Stage

Original title: Karmil pinnal

2015 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Toomas Järvet

Maher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but an artist at heart, a man who starts a quest against the society, cultural norms and his family in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history.

Maher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but an artist at heart, is a man who starts a quest against the society in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history. But to do so he must overcome several obstacles – time, money, insured dancer, his disapproving family and friends, and cultural norms. Set in today’s most contested location, Maher’s story is at once a parable about a society in conflict, and a modern take on — and inversion of — "The Jazz Singer," where the real war is between dreams and tradition.
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Arnold Rüütel. Unfinished sentence

Original title: Arnold Rüütel. Lõpetamata lause

2006 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

The documentary was finished before the presidential election in 2007; it opposes the speeches and interviews held by Arnold Rüütel during the Soviet era with the ones held during the period of Estonia regaining its independence.

24th Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union in Moscow; Baltic Chain Tour; Estonian Song Celebration in 1985 in Tallinn; celebrating the 70th anniversary of October Revolution; The Song of Freedom 1991 - these are just a few episodes from the archive-based documentary that follows Arnold Rüütel's activities during the period of 1971-1992. This era included the new wave of Russification policies, perestroika and Estonia regaining its independence. In order to stay alive and be successful during the times one had to be flexible and adaptable.
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The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Original title: Eestlased Kremlis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

The activities of the Estonian representatives at the Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...
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Fortieth War

Original title: Neljakümnes sõda

2005 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the Narva Battalion. The greatest value of the battalion was the Estonian men who volunteered to the Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942.

Documentary by Andres Sööt has been dedicated to the Narva Battalion of Estonian Grenadiers where the soldiers fought for the independence of the Republic of Estonia in World War 2. These Estonian men who volunteered to Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942 got a proper training in order to fight in the corps of Wiking SS division against the Soviet troops. The battle of Tannenberg and battles in Ukraine caused many victims; yet, it was not up to them to prevent the second Soviet occupation in Estonia.
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Children of the Singing Revolution

Original title: Kasvamise aeg

2004 | Documentary | Director: Arvo Iho

Estonian Television Childrens' Choir grows up together with the Republic of Estonia.

Filmmakers are searching for the similarties between the young people and a young state, they both grow up. The film tells about the members of the girls's choir of Estonian Television who started to sing together at a very young age in a state that was regaining its independence also with the support of singing at that time. The film documents the period of 1990-2004, starting from the time of the so-called Singing Revolution and Estonia regaining its independence until the joining the European Union. Filmmakers follow the process of growing up of the girls during an era full of ...
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Alone and Together

Original title of the film "Üksinda ja koos"

2002 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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The Kids from the Refugee Camp

Original title: Pagulaslaagri lapsed

2001 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Andrus Prikk, Toomas Kümmel

Documentary about Chechen children's memories of war, their daily life and hopes for future in a refugee camp in Georgia.

A documentary film about two Chechen boys, Abdul and Nazarbek, who might have to take up arms in the near future to fight for the liberation of their homeland. The material is filmed in the April of 2000 in a Duisi refugee camp in Georgia. The film recounts the stories of the little Chechen refugees - their wartime memories, daily life, and hopes for the future.
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Akvaarium

1998 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils
We Lived for Estonia

Original title: Elasime Eestile

1996 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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