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How the God Asked for Directions. A Vepsian Story

Original title: Kuidas jumal palus teed juhatada

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Valter Uusberg

God toured the land and saw a woman working. He asked her for directions. The woman pointed the way with her foot not stopping her work. God saw a man working. He asked for directions. The man said, „Let’s sit down and have a smoke.“ Then he pointed the way. Since that time men have had time to smoke, but women must always work.

God toured the land and saw a woman working. He asked her for directions. The woman pointed the way with her foot not stopping her work. God saw a man working. He asked for directions. The man said, „Let’s sit down and have a smoke.“ Then he pointed the way. Since that time men have had time to smoke, but women must always work.
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Jaan Poska

2016 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp
Kala-kala

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anton Bilžo
Kuum jälg

2016 | TV Serial, Kanal 2 Serial | Director: Jaak Kilmi
Land of Soul

Original title: Hingemaa

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne, Erik Norkroos

The oldest, almost century-old Estonian church in America is about to fall apart.

In a remote countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. At the end of this alley there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard that has probably a dozen graves next to it. This building with a broken roof and a leaning tower is the first church in America built by Estonians. It was built a hundred years ago and is desperately in need of repair. In Peedu, Tartumaa County, Tõnis Mägi receives an unexpected phone call. Jaan Karukäpp is calling from Chicago. He with other local Estonians is ...
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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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Loodusfilosoofiline Tartu

2016 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Jaan-Jürgen Klaus
Mercato

Original title: Turu majandus

2016 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Documentary film “Mercato" takes the viewer into one of the world’s poorest counties, Ethiopia. In the largest open air market in Africa, we follow the most ordinary working day of 10 year old shoe shine boys, wood-carrying ladies, an arrogant messenger and a well educated tourist guide.

Abebe and Ashenafi are ordinary 10-year old boys, whose parents sent them to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to work as shoe shine boys so the family would not starve. Abtu is an orphan teenager and works as a talalaki or a messenger, but work is the least on his mind. Bertukan is a mother of three. In order to survive, she carries heavier loads of wood than she herself weighs. Mulugeta is an educated guide who, thanks to his language skills, has an higher ranking in local society. All these Ethiopians are brought together in the Africa's largest market ...
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Miriam’s Hen’s Dream

Original title: Miriami kana unistus

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Andres Tenusaar

On a rainy autumn day Father and Little Brother are building a plane, Miriam is watching a picture book about southern countries, Hen is dreaming about flying away to the south – just as the cranes in the autumn sky. When the rain is over everybody goes with Mother to the park, to rake the fallen leaves. Even there Hen is exited about flying to the south, she climbs on top of the birch tree and tries to fly but falls into the pile of leaves... Little Brother proposes his toy plane, Father throws it into the air but even ...
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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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