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A Husband and a Wife. A Voitan Story

Original title: Mees ja naine

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mait Laas

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam about as the devil’s wife!“

A wife went out to cut the rye, while the husband was at home sick. The man asked if the work would soon be finished and the wife replied that it would. The husband went out to check and saw that his wife was asleep and the work had just begun. The husband cut his sleeping wife’s hair off and smeared her head with tar. The wife came home and asked the husband through the window, „Is your wife at home?“ The husband replied that she was. The wife cried, „The devil has exchanged me and I will always roam ...
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Aktuaalne Narva

2016 | Other categories | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Documentary about city of Narva.

Film is based on Estonian National Broadcasting archives filmed during 1960 till 2016.
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Beer Revolution

Original title: Õllerevolutsioon

2016 | Documentary | Director: Taavi Arus

Documentary follows the rising phenomenon of craft beer scene in Estonia throughout 2015 along with its main protagonists – brewers, sellers and variously minded consumers.

Craft beer, microbrewery, IPA, IBU, gipsy breweries, top- and post-fermentation – these are just a few keywords that for the past couple of years can be heard more and more often among serious beer enthusiasts. This prompts a fair question: “What is it all about?” „Beer Revolution“ does not provide straight answers but it does give a kaleidoscopic overview of producers, sellers and consumers of craft beers in Estonia in 2015.
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Bonus track

2016 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik
Burlesquers

Original title: Burleskitarid

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kristjan Ojang

A portrait about Estonian burlesque performers, how they organise events in Estonia and prepare for performances.

Walking around the streets you cannot see what´s going on in other peoples souls. How tdo hey entertain themselves at weekends, or what does really excite them? Documentary „Burlesquers” is about ordinary people who are ready and willing to go on the stage and take their clothes off.
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Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Destination To Be Happy

Original title: Sihtpunkt - olla õnnelik

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kertu Köösel

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.

This documentary tells the story of two men, Rain and Andres who are constantly on the search of self fulfilment and happiness. On their searches they have gone through many experiences which allows them to make others happy as well.The phrase giving is better than receiving was made for personalizing them.
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Fisherwoman and a Bear. A Sami Story

Original title: Kalapüüdja naine ja karu

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Tender

A Sami woman caught fish from the lake in autumn. When she was boiling the fish, a bear who was cold entered the conical tent. The woman understood that it was a Sami man who had turned into a bear. The next morning the woman traced the bear’s tracks and found another, a frozen bear. The men skinned the bear and found a purse with gold coins in it. In the summer, at a fair, the woman met the man who had turned into the bear. He said that the dead bear had been his brother. The man told her to keep the money.

A Sami woman caught fish from the lake in autumn. When she was boiling the fish, a bear who was cold entered the conical tent. The woman understood that it was a Sami man who had turned into a bear. The next morning the woman traced the bear’s tracks and found another, a frozen bear. The men skinned the bear and found a purse with gold coins in it. In the summer, at a fair, the woman met the man who had turned into the bear. He said that the dead bear had been his brother. The man told her ...
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I Breathe so I Dance

Orginal tiltle (in Estonian): "Hingan, seega tantsin"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kamilla Selina Lepik

A 16 years old talented dancer works hard to be a motivational teacher to her students.

Triin is a 16 years old girl who has been dancing for almost her whole life. For the last few years she has been teaching it in a reputed dance stu- dio in the heart of Tallinn. Her everyday struggles between sharing time at school and at a dance studio. She spends all of her free time on dancing and works hard to improve herself, inspire others and to tell stories with her body language.
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Illusioonide labürint

2016 | Documentary | Director: Jüri Lina