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Takso

2015 | TV Serial, Kanal 2 Serial | Director: Raivo Maripuu
Tarkovski

2015 | Documentary | Director: Nikolai Šarubin, Ella Agranovskaja
Tashi Delek!

2015 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Rebane

A young monk`s journey through Tibet in search of his path.

Tashi Delek! is a coming of age story of Tashi. On a wider scale, it is a story about a small nation struggling to keep its identity since opening ofborders 22 years ago. It is a universal story about the conflict between spiritualism and materialism. Tashi is a normal 17 year old teenager who loves to play football and basketball, have fun with his friends and listen to pop music. He is also a monk studying at Pema Tsal Sakya Buddhist Monastery, sent here by his parents at the age of 6. Soon, Tashi faces the mostimportant decision in his life — whether to ...
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The Butterfly Man

Original title: Liblikmees

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Edina Csüllög

A dream-like, uncanny short film telling about Anselm who dreams to become a magician.

Lonesome and clumsy Anselm works as a dedicated assistant to a famous magician Ernesto in Boruslawski Circus. Anselm secretly practises tricks as his deepest wish is to become a great magician himself. Finally the big moment arises for him when Ernesto bewitches himself and disappears. For a moment, Anselm becomes a great favourite of the audience, but his miraculous ability to conjure up butterflies from himself becomes fatal both for himself and for the circus.
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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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The Fire of a Nation

Original title (in Estonian): "Ühe rahva tuli"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Elisa Avik

This film is focusing on the Estonian nation, concentrating on the journey of Song and Dance festival’s fire.
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The Game of Words

Original title (in Estonian): "Sõnade mäng"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaisa Sammelselg

Kaisa Sammelselg in her short documenary deals with domestic violence.

Everybody wants love and happiness. Everybody wants to believe in these words: “they lived happily ever after”. What happens when happily ever after moves slowly towards abuse and terror? When is enough enough? Pille, 47-year old accountant was married for 20 years. Her husband abused her psychologically for years. Finally she escaped leaving her children behind.
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The Kazõm Report

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Laura Kõiv

Documentary about Khanty children and bout their games and worldview.

Khanty children plays are shown where comes out connections to surrounding world while having conversations and interviews within guests from abroad.
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The Last Exit

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liva Vilnite

Short documentary about the journey one takes before leaving Earth. Film captures last moments here - between the moment of death and funeral. Who we meet, where we go, who writes our life stories on the only physical memory we leave - the urn.

The story is about work environment and specifics of professions in The Crematorium of Riga, the only working crematorium in Latvia. The crematorium serves up to 6 cases per day offering a full service for managing the issues regarding to death. It makes work places for morgue workers, furnace operators, masters of ceremonies, coffin designers, hearse drivers and number of guards. It is a long list of professions that people do not talk about. As one of the characters said: “When my wife asks me where I am, I just have to tell her - there. She cannot even listen ...
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Tick-Tack

Original title: Tik-Tak

2015 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

Animated film “Tick-Tack” is visualizing time and it’s fatal nature. In order to underline the time as a metaphysical phenomena there are a lot of clocks and watches and its part to characterize it. We all are given “our time”, this “our time consists in reality in thousands of different “times” since even every cell in our body has its own time given to live and to die.
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