Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Search results

Advanced search (130)

The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

The Manslayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Time will grow through our bones

Original title (in Estonian): "Aeg kasvab läbi me luudest"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Dora Lall

Film student Dora Lall’s short film tells a story of a man who is stuck in his everyday work routine. He is unable to find a way to fulfill his dreams and wishes until everything falls apart and he is obliged to make a change.

Jaanus has been working in a factory for 10 years. He’s stuck in his everyday work but finds it impossible to make a change in his life. After a conflict with workmate Mart, change seems to be inevitabele.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Wild Game

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Jeronimo Sarmiento

A short film about identity and belonging.

During the harsh Estonian winter, fifteen-year-old Liis joins a group of teenagers for an unusual hunting game in the forest. She hopes to fit in with them, and opportunely she is paired with the boy she likes. The wild nature surrounding her awakens the strength to confront her feelings, yet conflicting emotions surface as the game unfolds.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Atop a mountain

Original title (in Estonian): "Mäel"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Ulrike Brett Uukkivi

„Atop a mountain“ is an adaption from Elviira Mihhaolovna’s novel „Prügimäel“ Film is about middle-aged woman named Maria who has reached a dead end in her life, and looks for an exit.

On a early spring night, Maria understands that she is breaking out from her cold-hearted cocoon. Initially, Maria sees only hope in vodka. But this time there comes another lonely sould, Georgi, with whom she stoles her last vodka and makes a great step towards a better life. Somehow, Maria is confronted with a world, where money is not the game and your masks are torn away. In this new world Maria finds a way to turn everything around. Elderly neighbourghs find out that Maria and her car have gone missing. And they think there is a more criminal meaning this.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
How To Make Water

2016 | Students film, Short, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Johannes Straßner

"How to Make Water" is a short comedy film produced for the Estonian Waterworks Association.

It's a playful approach to the question: "What would we do without the luxury of tap water?" and tells the story of the shy intern Toomas. On his first day at work, he serves water at a conference, but when he tries to pour water for the intimidating boss, his jug is empty. Rushing back to the kitchen, he has to discover that the water tap has stopped working. He turns to an internet tutorial video for help on how to produce clean water by himself. Instructed by the "Crazy Croatian Hacker" he constructs his own filtering machine but ...
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Reading between the lines

Original title (in Estonian): "Ridade vahelt lugedes"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Nadja Girich

Adaptation of original letters by Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and estonian poetess Maria Karamzina.

An actress, suffering from midlife crisis, gets a role in a theatre performance alongside a famous actor, performing the touching story of friendship between world-known Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin and Russian emigrant poet from Estonia Maria Karamsina. While performing the play, the actors’ sympathy surpasses the theatre stage, growing into something bigger in real life.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Work with the pain

Original title in Estonian: Tööta valuga

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Epp Kubu

Film portrays midwives during a new years night.

Film portrays midwives during a new years night.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Culprit

Original title in Estonian: Süüdlane

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Indrek Kaine

The short film by Indrek Kaine, Kalev Smidt, Jan Andresson, Veiko Jaks and Randel Pomber talks about guilt through the eyes of a child.

Indrek is a humble boy, who is a victim of school violence: he is forced to do a prank which leads him to police questioning.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Fight Fire with Laughter

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baris Demir

Nikita is young and funny man. His job is very important but most of the times he doesn’t get emergency calls. His job is being ready when it is time and we see how he spends his free time.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Fish in the Sea

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Aino M. Salmi

Film about love and letting go.

The film takes the spectator to step inside of the oppressive time after an uttermost break-up. It researches the state of mind in the time, when one is too tired to cry and can’t do anything else but just sit and stare ahead, and try to accept the situation of being now only a unit of one instead of two. It tells about the seek of answers in the stage where the whole foundation on what one has been building the life and future on so far, has fallen off, and under the feet there is only emptiness.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis