Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Search results

Advanced search (154)

Not There Yet

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ruta Pakalne

Each child needs to face challenges with their parents, this film looks into a Latvian young woman’s also the director of the film difficult relationship with her mother.

"Not there yet" explores the complicated relationship between a mother and a daughter. Important life events will raise questions about what is right and what is wrong. They will make our characters look back into the past and further into the future, ask questions about love, life, and identity.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Pets and Berlin

Original title: Pets ja Berliin

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Taavi Arus

A story about a legend of Estonian punk scene Peeter Männiksoo aka Pasa-Pets who has been living for years in Berlin. It is a story about a man's survival in a big city, a story about loneliness, struggle and freedom. It's a poem about Pets and Berlin.

Bowie, who lived in Berlin in the seventies, describes his life in Berlin as “moving around in virtual anonymity... For some reason, Berliners just don't care.” Peeter and Berlin are partners that support one another. Peeter says that there are a lot of people like him in Berlin: “This place attracts people like me, because you can be your true self. Berlin doesn't judge you for who you are. Berlin accepts you the way you are. You don't see this in a lot of other cities. You won't see such attitude in Estonia!” Without a doubt, Berlin is Peeter's home ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Portugal

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Lagle

Lauri Lagle's first feature film is profound and smooth like a summer's night. It is a physical progression and a mental journey towards something other than a mere geographical location on a map.

Karina and Martin are in a pleasant relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviour can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it's this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question - is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost. The characters in the film are looking for a place of love and understanding in the world. Their journey is playful, mellow and thoroughly human. It ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Roots: Wombstone

Original title: Juured: Emakivi

2018 | Documentary | Director: Kersti Uibo

The sounds of gently breaking waves or fluttering insect’s wings are telling the story of our roots long before human footprints were first left on Baltic beaches.

The documentary is best understood as the observations of an unborn or newborn child setting eyes on the world for the first time. Is a mother’s womb the confined space that it appears to be, or is it as infinite as the cosmos itself? Is the bolder on the beach as tall as a mountain, or as tiny as a pebble? The sounds of gently breaking waves or fluttering insect’s wings are telling the story of our roots long before human footprints were first left on Baltic beaches.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Solstice

Original title: Pööriöö

2018 | Animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

A hord of penguins migrate to a rural Estonian village.

In a small rural village, local hoodlum Türna, abandons his pregnant wife. Aapo gets a feeling that he might be an ant. A beefeater gets a terrible itch in his hat. A penguin is crushed to find its girlfriend cheating on him with a walrus - it decides to leave his homeland. Other penguins follow his lead. All of their paths cross in Türnas village, during the solstice.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Some Notes About Love

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maris Kerge

Director Maris Kerge wants to find out if art can replace real life and explore the possibility of unconditional love.

"Some Notes About Love" is a documentary, that in it’s centres around an experiment created specifically for the film. The director Maris Kerge made an open call to find an unknown person with whom to live together and study based on this experience, if its possible to create an empathy between two strangers. Second goal of the experience was to test the boundaries between art and real-life.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Strawberry Eaters

Original title: Maasikaõgijad

2018 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mattias Mälk

Snails can't wait for a strawberry farmer's child to be born.

Snails can't wait for a strawberry farmer's child to be born.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The Knot

Original title in Estonian: Sõlm

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Andres Losada

Anton is a fragile 12-year-old who is afraid of the shed in his backyard. He decides to follow his brother Markus and some bully friends in exploring an abandoned building. When the bullies turn on the brothers and Markus is humiliated, Anton is forced to face his fear, which turns out to be related to a family trauma that he can’t escape.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The Realtor

Original title in Estonian: "Maakler"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Sander Gering

Sander Gering's webseries about the crime.

“It’s just a job,” keeps Dima, a young criminal. telling himself after yet another man has been killed and buried. But when his younger broth-er, who works in the same business goes missing, he starts to under-stand the consequences of his actions.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis