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Adikia – Out Of The Rap Closet

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Kirsikka Ruohonen was scared to perform her lyrics. Finally, she came out from the rap closet and showed that it is possible to do rap in a different way.

Rap scene all over the world has been very patriarchal and Finland is not an exception. There have not been many female rappers and time to time, they haven’t been taken seriously. Females used to be considered more as a background dancers and girlfriends, than real rap music lovers. Kirsikka Ruohonen also known as a rap artist Adikia, spent many years in a rap closet because of the toxicity in the rap scene. She wanted to be ready when she came out from the closet. Finally, she was ready to show people, what she had been doing behind closed doors.
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Ferryman of the dead

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jaakko Tervonen

Middle aged painter battling deadly cancer. She puts her thoughts about life and death into her paintings.

Story of Krista Launonen who is an artist in Finland. She is a well known podcast host and a mother. The only thing strange about Krista is the fact that she lives with Myelooma. A cancer that is going to kill her within five years and she is okay with it. In the film we follow her process of preparing to die wile grieving her recently passed sister and wiriting her will.
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3rd Octave F

Original title: 3. oktavi F

2022 | Feature film, Short | Director: Eeva Mägi

A woman’s voice can silence injustice, lower weapons and stop trains. In opera-western the question is whether Ada can hit the right note to save her brother's and her own life from the vindictive Sheriff.

A daring and stylized opera-western tells the story of a broken family, revenge and standing up against injustice towards women. As Mario, a bit short-fused but righteous outlaw, gets out of prison, his only wish is to get back home to his mother and sister Ada. It’s not long until life drags him into trouble again. Witnessing a woman being attacked, Mario is forced to pull his gun on the perpetrator, leaving the man with just one hand. The Sheriff hears about Mario’s deed and sets off to catch him. The Sheriff couldn’t care less for the woman attacked or the man ...
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50 Years Later

Original title: 50 aastat hiljem

2022 | Other categories | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

Helle sees a photo taken 50 years ago in her photo album and travels back to the times when she was truly crazy.

Helle sees a photo taken 50 years ago in her photo album and travels back to the times when she was truly crazy. We take the same photo again in the same place and we see that the woman´s vitality has not disappeared - it has just taken a different form today.
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A Letter From Helga

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

In a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, young farmer Bjarni begins a passionate, forbidden affair with his neighbour Helga, emotions running as wild as the ocean waves that surround them.

The story takes place in the 1940's in the west fjords of Iceland, a strange paradise hidden at the edge of Europe. In this small but thriving community we meet Bjarni, a young, idealistic farmer. Bjarni has a place in this world; his house has been in his family for 9 generations, he has status, respect and his wife Unnur is capable and hard-working. It appears that the sun is shining on them, but underneath the surface, a silent anguish is growing between husband and wife, too painful to talk about. Unnur clings to the farm work, as does Bjarni ...
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ASPHYXIA

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Sergei Batrak

Soldier finds a stranger in the basement of an occupied house, whom he discovers to be a copy of himself from the future, on the edge of suicide.

Ivan, a slavic looking soldier, loots an occupied house and finds a silhouette of a person from his army attempting suicide there. As he tries to talk the silhouette out of taking his own life, a war- truck suddenly passes by the window and illuminates the face of the stranger. It is identical to Ivan's but damaged. Ivan has a panic attack and collapses as his future self warns of a prophecy.
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Boy in Clouds

Original title in Estonian: Poiss pilvedes

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Betra Käsper

The film talks about mental health and the loneliness that comes with it.

A cloud boy sits on the cloud. Alone, clinking his feet. There's a cloud traffic underneath him. Nobody notices him in the loneliness. Until a cloud girl feels a need to help him.
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Dog Apartment

Original title: Koerkorter

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Priit Tender

Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.

Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
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Estonian Rhapsody

Original title: Kukerpillide rapsoodia

2022 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid and its spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to the roots of Estonian folkmusic.

A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this.
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Eyes on you

Original title in Estonian: (Ära) vaata

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Raoul Kirsima

Short film about an old lady living alone who has a feeling that someone is watching her.

Lea, an old lady living alone, loses herself and the world around when she gets the feeling that someone is watching her. Her son Tarmo bringing groceries is but a short relief. Once he suggests to ignore her fears and leaves, the situation however only gets worse.
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