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Ab Absurdo

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Iris Peil

The tragicomedy takes a look at the inner world of two people who are looking for relief and a sense of existence.

Through pitchblack humor that’s born from a familiar absurdity of life’s situational satir ‘’Ab Absurdo’’ offers a sharp insight to the minds of somewhat intertwined inner worlds of two lonely individuals. Former starlet Ada and protagonist Jonas land on an unexpected journey throughout life to search for meaning and relief to one’s existence. Throughout thirty-something years the pair seem to peek through the life on stage as well as road to death.
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Corpse Merchants

Original title in Estonian: Laibamüüjad

2022 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Mikk Mäe

Kaspar Rummi's, Mikk Mäe's and Mona Brit Luur's master's thesis is a 42-minute long documentary show that reflects the history of Estonian crime shows through the eyes and experiences of those who make them. We also touch on various events in the development of the content and formats of crime shows. The show reflects the period of the 90s and early 00s.

In “Corpse Merchants”, legendary Estonian crime show figures talk about their most memorable works and all the “fun” and heartache that came with their jobs. How did it all begin and how did it end? As honestly as possible, we get a deep dive of their crime shows and the stories behind their hard work.
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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
Let’s Keep on Rolling

Original title in Latvian: Rullējam Tālāk

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Rinalts Ignass, Oto Klavins

A short comedy about the friendship and grief of the elderly.

A hearse car gets stolen on it's way to a funeral. Two elderly men Alfred and his best friend Maris speed away in it and a mysterious lady chases after them. The two men enjoy their life to the fullest meanwhile the lady and the police are trying to catch them.
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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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A Trace of Fire

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Diego Alejandro Barajas

The trace of a fire that burns everything.

Sander, a young man full of rage, burns his father's car without realizing that his father was sleeping drunk inside of it, or at least that's what he thinks until a man destroys his version of the events.
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In Between Realities

2021 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Frederiks Sebastians, Sofia Jürimäe

A reflection of the Russian media scene in Estonia through the eyes of its possibly most controversial representative.

Memories and opinion about the political and national climate in Estonia from the 90's unEl nowadays, offering one of the most visible and scandalous reEred journalists in Estonia’s Russian media scene point of view and exploring his professional and personal change in his career through different times, reflecting on his identity and occuption.
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There was a king

Original title in Estonian: Oli Kuningas

2021 | Students film, Short | Director: Ester Stancel

Action film about the family relationships of drug dealers in the 90ies.

In a family of drug dealers, the father tries to bring God’s blessing unto his favourite son Joseph. But his actions make his other sons increasingly jealous, until they decide to take things into their own hands.
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Left Unsaid

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Iari Varriale

The filmmaker seeks to discover the relationship with his emotionally distant father.

Iari - the filmmaker - feels sorrow because he never got close with his emotionally distant father. To try and get over this feeling, he decides to turn the camera towards his parents, and in particular toward the father, to whom will be asked questions about his childhood. In this film, we see the filmmakers deep desire to understand the troubled childhood of his parents, through which he also hopes to get a better understanding of himself.
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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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