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Ainus

2009 | Amateur films | Director:
Amontillado

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristo Viiding

After more than a decade of meticulous planning, the time has come. Tonight there will be a settling of scores. And when the morning comes, the nineties will finally be dead and buried. Based on E. A. Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", a classic revenge st
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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Baruto - Lost in Translation

Original title: Baruto - Tõlkes kaduma läinud

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Artur Talvik

Portrait documentary directed by Artur Talvik about Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto and about his difficult journey towards the highest rank of Japanese sumo wrestling.

The documentary tells the story of Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto, a common Estonian boy coming from the countryside, and about his difficult journey to the closed circle of Japanese sumo wrestling. His quickly developing Sumo career is being admired by his fans both in Japan and in homeland. He becomes famous that is a complicated burden. Through Kaido's eyes we can see the differences between the Eastern and Western cultures through sumo traditions, strict rituals and hierarchy. The director of the film started to follow Baruto's activities since 2005 - during the four years of filming there were both ups ...
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Bibendum

2009 | Feature film, Short | Director: Augustas Liiv

Satirical short comedy directed by Augustas Liiv about the deep friendship between an English truck driver and Michelin mascot.

English truck driver Macky rides along the roads of Russia and his only companion is the white plastic doll – the Michelin Man (Bibendum) fixed to the roof of the truck cabin. Lots of long-distance truck drivers have their own car-related talisman that supposedly brings good luck. Macky's great friendship with Bibendum is put to the test when the Michelin Man is stolen in a desolate gas station in Russia. Macky gets involved in the dangerous adventures of local mafia men. In such threatening conditions, the truck driver should escape without looking back, but Macky makes up his mind to ...
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Daddy Arpad

Original title: Isa Arpad

2009 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Edina Csüllög
Eesti lipp 120

2009 | Amateur films | Director:
Escape

2009 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

The prospect isn't good: situation seems like jail, porridge bowl bottomless and time is running out. An unexpected discovery changes it all though.

The prospect isn't good: situation seems like jail, porridge bowl bottomless and time is running out. An unexpected discovery changes it all though.
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Estonian Stories. Pastacas

Original title: Pastacas

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Kotov

Portrait documentary by Rein Kotov about Estonian musician and artist Ramo Teder alias Pastacas who lives in Finland.

Pastacas alias Ramo Teder is a mystical man who makes beautiful yet weird folktronica musica and uses a ball-point pen to draw on his paintings. His music has listeners from Helsinki to Tokyo. Ramo Teder was born in rural Estonia and now lives in a small village in South-Western Finland with his Finnish wife Piia and seven-year-old daughter Pihla. Pastacas composes his music out of miniature parts that form a lyrical and weird whole. Ramo is a traveler and a musician, an Estonian artist abroad.
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Float

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Jiri Stejskal