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Minsk

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Boris Guts

Minsk. August 2020. Pavel and Julia, a young couple, go out at night…During 1,5 hours, their life changes completely.

Pavel and Julia, a young couple living in Minsk suburbs. They recently got married, got a mortgage for an apartment, and now are planning to have a baby. After sex, laying in bed in their cozy apartment, they discuss their coming future, recall how they met each other, joke and have fun. Couple goes out at night, to check Pavel’s ex-wife’s, Tanya’s car. During the walk, they end up in the middle of protests of the civilian population, which came out against the unfair presidential elections. Tanya, participates in these protests. Pavel tries to contact her, but her phone is ...
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My dear happiness

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Franz Wendler

This is a documentary that was filmed in a vox-pops style and tries to answer the question about the subjectivity of happiness.

Happiness is one of the most important and strongest emotions that we can feel and yet the origin of every single happiness lies in various things that we talk about far too little in our everyday lives. And it is exactly this unspoken subjectivity of happiness that this documentary aims to portray and present.
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One in a million

Original title in Estonian: Üks miljonist

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Betra Käsper

A documentary about a girl with an incurable gene disease that affects only one in a million people.

“One in a million” talks about Janeliis, who has a really rare disease which has no cure. She is studying law and hasn't given up the hope of finding a doctor with answers. The story is from Janeliis’s perspecSve in hope to inspire people to never give up.
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Orchidelirium. Thirst

Original title: Orhideliirium. Janu

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines.

The film is a post-human choreography of displaced plants and machines. The thirst for luxury and abundance is the force that keeps the capitalist machinery running. The dry wells and the thirst for drinking water is what the local communities in Estonia are left with as the fragile wetlands are being drained for peat excavation in their neighbourhoods. Millions of tons of Estonian peat end up in greenhouses in the Netherlands where peat is needed as a component of the soil substrate for phalaenopsis orchids. While the mass-produced orchids may seem like a pathetic mimicry of what once was an ...
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Primordial IKUMUMU

2022 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Max Mikkilä

A clip for BFM advertising AVM course study.

A lizard-like person evolves into an IKUMUMU student.
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Rainer Sarnet’s Invisible Fight

Original title in Estonian: Rainer Sarneti nähtamatu võitlus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Gert Põrk

The documentary follows Rainer Sarnet during the production of his new feature film "The Invisible Fight".

As a portrayal of artistic process, the film examines the inner workings of a film director’s mind with the aim to understand Sarnet’s own invisible fight. We follow the journey of an endangered species called Estonian film director.
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Searching for the perfect documentary

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Yessine Youssef

A student goes on the search for a great documentary idea while exploring his personal motivations.

A student starts making interviews and approaching different types of documentary styles while making it a personal diary.
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Silent Land

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Martin Riispere

A bittersweet science fiction drama about coming to terms with loss and grief.

The plot of Silent Land is a tragedy. The son is in great pain and obsessed with pushing these trauma derived negative emotions of his mother’s suicide away. He succeeds but with dire consequences to his mind and that propels him to his undoing. The core is loss and grief. The son is unable to deal with the loss of his mother and thus obsessively resorts to extreme methods in an attempt to push away his negative emotions instead of dealing with them.
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Spilling tea with my granny

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kailiin Dubrov

Documentary about the work of a cashier during the corona time.

The director's grandmother loves to tell dramatic stories about her job as a cashier, but especially in corona time there are more difficulties than usual to cope with. Either it's the anti maskers, anti vaccers or just a bunch of unpleasant customers, she has to deal with them face to face in almost every work shift. The film is divided into three parts that talk about the main problems through my grannies eyes. It is combined with her work routine and leisure time between those parts that also reveal in which shop she is working as a cashier at.
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The Farewell

Original title in Estonian: Hüvastijätt

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Mariann Jüriorg

A story of a relationship between family’s differ- ent generations, their closeness and vulnerability.

On her way to a friend's funeral, an orderly grandmother finds her car covered in bird shit. Despite her fear, she drives into a car wash with her granddaughter, where they get stuck for sev- eral hours. In the car wash, they are mentally pushed to their extreme and share their biggest secrets. The moment the two generations accept their differences and embrace their similarities, the gates open up as well.
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