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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.
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Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
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Sherlock and I

Original title in Estonian: "Mina ja Sherlock"

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Melder

Sherlock and I’ features teenagers Miina and a young man she has nicknamed ‘Sherlock’, and their (in)ability to take first steps out of childhood and into physical romance, with the backdrop of getting teased and trying to spread one’s wings in a strict household.

Miina, after getting rejected by her crush, decides to ask ‘Sherlock‘ to take part in an academic makeout session, in order to get out of her ‘loser’ status in school. Things don’t go her way, as Sherlock, before seemingly cocky and cool, can’t handle the intimacy of physical romance just yet and leaves as things start to heat up. At the sweet closing of the film, Miina finds the care and comfort she was looking for from boys by reminding herself of her loving relationship with her mother.
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The Choice

Original title: Valik

2018 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Alexandra Shadrina

Attention! New collection of people is on sale in our shopping mall!

Attention! New collection of people is on sale in our shopping mall! Hurry up, only a few days left! The choice of modern man is determined by the fashion industry marketers. Fashionable patterns are already invented and fed to the audience waiting to be bought. Who actually makes a choice, a person or it has been already made for one?
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The Fourth Sister. Under the Clouds

Original title: Pilvede all. Neljas õde

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Toomas Kirss
The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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 Riddle of Jaan Niemand

Original title: Põrgu Jaan

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaur Kokk

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.

Somewhere in Estonia at the beginning of the 18th century, after ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore. He’s disheveled and comatose. They take him to the local manor lord and bring him back to consciousness. When he opens his eyes, he realizes that he can’t remember who he is or how he got there. He’s just as much a stranger to himself as to the people around him. By force of circumstance, he must stay ...
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The Search

2018 | Students film, Documentary | 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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Thorns of the Rose

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Laura Smolski

The short film "Roosi" talks about getting lost in the name of love.

Young girl is infatuated with a local policeman. In the name of love she is willing to sacrifice everyone and everything.
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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 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Andres Tarto
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