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Mother

Original title: Ema

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kadri Kõusaar

Mother is a thrilleresque story about the consequences of years of self-deception, unfulfilled dreams and lack of love.

This small town crime story in the pastel tones of modern retro offers recognition and bitter humour. “Mother” is a thrilleresque story about rash decisions made in the name of dreams that will have haunting consequences for some time to come. The film focuses on a woman whose adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened. But in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything except for what’s right under their nose, the world’s ...
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My Iranian Grandmother

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Afrahi

A journey to the life of Miriam' s 80-year-old Grandmother, who lives alone in a small town in Iran. A woman in a mans’ world.

“My Iranian Grandmother” is a documentary about filmmaker's grandmother who lives alone in a small town in central Iran. At the age of 80, Parvin is not your typical Iranian woman in a country filled with patriarchy.
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My Name Boris

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Krish Makhija

"My Name Boris" is an architecture film focusing on the grain elevator building in Tallinn, Estonia.

After years of being a place filled with rough, rugged men spending their time on hard, manual labor, the building has been renovated and is slowly filling up with offices, cafeterias and eco- stores selling gluten-free muffins. For someone who has lived through 2 world wars but always served the same function, this triggers an identity crisis.
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Papad mammad

2016 | TV Serial, TV3 Serial | Director: Ergo Kuld, Margus Raid
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.
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Sneakerheads

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristi Prik

The short TV documentary ‘Sneakerheads’ by Kristi Prik gives to sneakerheads the chance to talk about their unusual hobby.

A sneakerhead is a person who collects, trades or admires sneakers as a hobby. The birth of the sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the beginning of 1980’s mostly thanks to basketball, especially Michael Jordan and hip-hop music. Sneakerheading in Estonia is a far more recent event – it has only been around for a decade the most. This journalistic TV documentary will give the viewer an insight to the world of sneakerhead.
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State of Mind

Original title (in Estonian): "Meeleseisund"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Sten-Robert Pullerits

State of Mind attempts to understand the mind of a young man living with a psychological disorder. Striving towards comprehending the conflict between his reality and the actual.

A young author, Frank, is having troubles finishing his new book, after being successful with his first one. In order to find inpsiration, he decided to admit himself into a psychiatric hospital and agrees to seemingly unecessary treatment. However, as time passes, he realizes that reality as he knows it might not be real after all.
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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher
Three Clay Pots. A Komi Story

Original title: Kolm savipotti

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.
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What do adults play?

Original title (in Russian): "Во что играют взрослые?"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Vladislav Mukovnin

To escape from the hateful game, a boy agrees to help a young man to bring flowers to a lady, but a simple request makes everything go wrong.
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