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The Good Shepherd

Original title: Hea Karjane; from the short film collection: Värske veri

2018 | Short, Feature film | Director: Evar Anvelt

Ibrahim is a shepherd whose job is to look after his herd as best as he can. One day he receives a phone call from his brother with a plan he wants to hear nothing about.

Ibrahim is a simple, kind-hearted man whose main source of income is raising sheep. He lives with his family in the Middle Eastern mountains. The last few years have been particularly wretched and illnesses have struck his flock causing many animals to perish. There seems to be no end in sight to these calamities. One day, Ibrahim’s younger brother Omar calls him and in a carefree tone asks to use a building on the edge of their father’s farm for something that Ibrahim does not want to hear anything about...
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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The Search

2018 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Dmitri Shushuyev

Life of a BMX Freestyle professional Bert Ribul.

An intimate artful look at a life of an extreme sports professional coming from a small country, his search to find himself within life, within the sport of BMX Freestyle and the hardship that is an integral part that one has to overcome in order to proceed with the craft further.
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The Wind Sculpted Land

Original title: Tuulte tahutud maa

2018 | Nature, Overviews, Documentary | Director: Joosep Matjus
U48 2018: Reconstruction

Original title in Estonian: Remont

2018 | Short, Students film | Director: Teemu Kettunen

A short film about a young man forcing himself to work at reconstructing a family mansion, to cover his heartbreak.

A young man’s family mansion reconstruction project is interrupted when his father and sister arrive for his birthday. His sister is also heartbroken. She has taken another way of dealing with it by actually stopping for a while and thinking.
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Unanswered questions. Maria Laidoner’s letters to my grandfather

Original title (in Estonian): "Vastuseta küsimused ehk Maria Laidoneri kirjad minu vanaisale"

2018 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Andres Tarto
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Vastuvõtt

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets
Võltsitud maailm

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jüri Lina
Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Observation, Making of, Documentary | Director:

Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

Kenya is mostly a relatively peaceful land in the African context, but when it comes to elections then the hell is out. Thousands of people were killed in the violent events that hit Kenya after elections in 2008. It is the year of 2017 and once again an election year in Kenya. Most security experts of different politicians and public authorities in Kenya are confident that the 2007 bad scenario will recur and even worse than ever before. The director Ken Saan invites longtime war reporter Ivar Heinmaa to join him, to guide in the war situation and share the tricks ...
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A Short Story from the Big City of Sharjah

2018 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Lotta Raunio

Bangladeshi taxi driver lives in the UAE supporting his family while sacrificing his own life.

Sohel is a Bangladeshi who has lived in the UAE for the last 10 years supporting his family back home in Dhaka. He seen them every three years and does nothing else but work while in the UAE. Living in his car, driving 24/7, he questions the crazy world he lives in. He tells his stories, but behind those there is a longing to go back home.
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