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Chili from Chile in Estonia

Original title: Vigala vürts

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Elo Selirand
Priceless

Original title: Priceless

2012 | Feature film, Short | Director: Heigo Lepla

What could replace money in the materialistic world in order to make people passionately experience absurd situations?

Story about a man who has everything one can get for money. However, he finds new challenges and methods in order to achieve his goals. His late night visit to the office building takes an unexpected turn, including Hollywood-ish dust-up, criminal police, celebrities and misunderstandings.
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Work Is Going On!

Original title: Töö käib!

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Taavi Arus
Andy stands up

Original title: Andy astub üles

2011 | Documentary | Director: Elen Lotman

Stand-up comedian Andrus Valvur, an Estonian expatriate born in New York, comes to visit his fatherland in order to meet his relatives and hold a performance in Estonian for local audience for the first time.

Andrus Valvur is both an Estonian and American, a comedian and a citizen of the world born in the USA. He visits his homeland in order to fulfill his secret dream - to perform in Estonian language in front of fellow Estonians. Andy makes thorough preparations for his performance, gets acquainted to Estonia and its people, their way of thinking and sense of humour. Despite his 25-year-long experience as a comedian, Andy is still nervous whether Estonians will enjoy the performance.
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Circulation of the Blood

Original title: Vereringe

2011 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Simm

Short film directed by Peeter Simm about lonely people in the blood circulation of society.

Actress Ruth has been abroad for a long time and gained fame. When arriving at her homeland, she is broken and devastated. Local producer invites her to present at the TV broadcast on an international donors' day. Ruth is on drugs and her condition won't let her to be filmed. The angry producer sends his assistant to look for Ruth. When unexpectedly meeting Sven, a former co-student, Ruth will regain her energy and starts to shine. Sven's mother tells Ruth about his son's real life. It hurts to hear the truth.
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Old Clown

Original title: Vana kloun

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Documentary film tells a story of legendary Soviet time clown Sergey Fatkin. Due to popularity he was allowed to pass iron curtain and visit 35 countries in times when many Soviets didn’t see any foreign country ever. At Paris nightclub Olympia Fatkin performed together with Jaques Brel. Later on Sergei Fatkin made a fatal mistake smuggling Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago into the country. Officially banned book was hand copied and passed around. KGB soon traced down Sergei Fatkin and the legendary clown was arrested, liberated from his titles, awards and private possessions. Ironically – the man who had passed around a book about Soviet prisons was imprisoned for years. Nowadays Sergei Fatkin, free again, is still working modestly as a clown, performing at kindergartens mostly.
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Over and Out

Original title: Side lõpp

2011 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Järvet
Staar maakas

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
The Mission of a Rom

Original title: Mustlase missioon

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Georg Vinogradov has an important mission: to bring the Romanians to Christianity and improve the reputation of the nation for Estonians.

50-year-old Romanian Georg Vinogradov is a priest in Võru Pentecostal Church. He reached religion through rough personal experiences, including being a prisoner in Patarei Prison, being sick with cancer and fighting this. Georg is a father of eight children. His home is his church - half of his house, an old wooden building, serves as a church. Georg attempts to bring Romanians closer to Christianity in order to purify their souls and improve their reputation among the local people. The documentary juxtaposes Romanian traditional lifestyle and Christian world view declared by Georg as well as contemplates on the dilemma of ...
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Tsirkusetuur

2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik