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Kerro 40

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Story about family club Kerro in the countryside in middle of Estonia.

Kerro 40 is a story about unique cultural phenomenon that already 40 years takes place in Estonian countryside called Käru. It is community based and takes place regularly from September till May every year. The core of those activities are classical dance culture and Estonian traditional folklore. Documentary follows representatives of 3 different generations that actively participate in organization of those events and popularization of a strong tradition among younger inhabitants in and outside of Käru community. Lembit Eensoo started to join Kerro events almost 40 years ago, a lot of things are different now. Inge Nuia is taking part ...
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Lembri Uudu

2017 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi
Manivald

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Chintis Lundgren

Overeducated and unemployed, Manivald lives with his overbearing mother. When their washing machine breaks down one day, Toomas the repairman arrives to fix it and them.

Manivald, a fox, is turning 33. Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother and spends his days learning piano while she makes his coffee and washes his socks. It is an easy life, but not a good one. Their unhealthy co-dependence is about to change when the washing machine breaks down and in comes Toomas, a sexy and adventurous wolf repairman, to fix it, and them.
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Mihkel Raud learns to swim

Original title (in Estonian): "Mihkel Raud õpib ujuma"

2017 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Veiko Piirsalu
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Nanuli and Gogi

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Agladze

The film tells a story of a couple who spend their last years in abandoned village of Georgia.

A short documentary following an old couple trying to come in terms with death in an abandoned country-side village.
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Nowness

Original title (in Estonian): "Olevik"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

,,Nowness’’ tells the reminiscent story of a grandfather and understanding grief and death.

Shown through a poetic lens, the film tells the story of a woman’s final farewell with her grandfather. She is grieving and her memories unfold in front of her eyes as she takes her regular “journey” to the well. The magpies evoke the memories connected with her grandfather.
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Present

Original title in Estonian: "Kingitus"

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Feliks Mangus

A story about an old couple’s life, love and the battle for power.

When 65-year old Enno finds a pen in front of his house, he’s not aware that it will have the power to change his life. A story about an old couple’s life, love and the battle for power.
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Ruja - keelatud

2017 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director:
Soviet Hippies

Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

A wild flower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement take you into the psychedelic underground of 1970s. In search of freedom and happiness under the thumb of the strict political regime a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds and other long-haired drop-outs created their own System in the Soviet Union. Years later, a group of eccentric hippies take a road journey to Moscow where people still gather annually on the 1st of June to commemorate a tragic event in 1971, when thousands of hippies were arrested by the KGB.
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St. John’s Day

Original title: Jaanipäev

2017 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets, Jaak Kilmi

On the day preceding the St. John’s celebration, tens of thousands of people wait for hours in a queue that stretches for kilometers, in order to board the barge that will take them to the island Saaremaa.

Every bona fide Estonian has met the midsummer solistice on the island of Saaremaa - anyone who has not can’t possibly know what St. John’s celebration is truly about. On the day preceding the holiday, tens of thousands of people wait for hours in a queue that stretches for kilometers, in order to board the barge that will take them to the island. The film portrays those who are impatiently waiting to leave the continent and the locals who will stay. The villagers cannot imagine life without the queue - they've grown up with it, some have made fortunes capitalizing on ...
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