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Suite for Two

Original title: Sviit kahele

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Marko Raat

Short film by Marko Raat about the power games between two women in a hotel suite.

A maid comes to clean a hotel room and becomes enchanted by the possessions and life of its resident. She visualizes herself to be in the world of that unknown woman while putting on an elegant evening gown and becoming that other lady in order to enjoy the moment of having the taste of upper class life. When the resident returns her room, she finds a sleeping young woman in her bathroom. Things take a cruel turn where the hotel maid plays the part of Cinderella and the game rules will be set by the middle-aged lady disappointed in life.
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The Shoe Tree

Original title: Kingapuu

2003 | Students film, Short | Director: Ian Cottage
Two-Timing

Original title: Kaksikelu

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Raimo Jõerand

Short film directed by young documentalist Raimo Jõerand, telling about the marital relationships and playing with paradoxes.

When their marriage becomes a routine, a husband and a wife have a tradition to act as lovers who have not seen each other for a long time. So far, this masquerade has been refreshing and safe but now it is going too far and becomes fatally dangerous. The wife wants to get his husband killed, but when she calls for an assassin, it turns out that the assassin will be her own husband who secretly works as one. Does such situation have solutions?
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Ferdinand

2002 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andri Luup

Feature film debut by director Andri Luup about escaping from boredom of life, routine and emptiness and the journey back to the self and the meaning of existence.

Bus driver Ferdinard is tired of his work and life. The confused man makes one mistake after another at work and finally he stops the bus with passengers on a railway crossing and leaves. While aimlessly wandering around the city, Ferdinand makes up his mind to try out all social models he knows in order to find his balance in life. Policeman Kerstensen, also tired of his job and life, starts to follow Ferdinand. During the existentialist cat-and-mouse game, Ferdinand will finally find the meaning of existence and to his true self.
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Names in Marble

Original title: Nimed marmortahvlil

2002 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The debut film by director Elmo Nüganen is based on the novel "Names in Marble" by Albert Kivikas. The film is a patriotic war drama telling the story of schoolboys in the Estonian War of Independence and of the days and nights of these young volunteer fighters. The film is full of dangers, challenges, pain and exaltation, entwined by a beautiful story of young love.

The war drama based on the novel "Names in Marble" by Albert Kivikas has broken all-time box-office record in Estonia, telling the story about schoolboys who have become voluntary soldiers fighting for the freedom of their homeland. It is a catching story about becoming a man, about the first love and the high price of freedom. Will they be awarded with love and fatherland, or will they become just names engraved in marble?
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Heart of the Bear

Original title: Karu süda

2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.

The magic of Siberia brings hunter Niika back to the lands of Nordic people. Despite of the hospitality of the Nganasan people it turns out that Niika's destiny is not in his own hands but will be determined by the forces of nature. He can rediscover himself only when he is ready to experience passion and pain, desperation and unforgivable sin. He must meet his own shadow, to love a woman for whom no one else is left, and to kill his friend. The only way to escape his fate is to get the heart of the bear.
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Helmut

2001 | Students film, Short | Director: Anri Rulkov
The Gardener

Original title: Aednik

2001 | Feature film, Short | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo, Andrés Joaquin Sendino

Parable about the destructive vicious circle of loneliness, obsessions, love and giving it up.

A parable about a solitary man who has forsaken the world and finds comfort only in planting trees. This activity has become a sacred ritual for him. Yet deep inside, he awaits and seeks some sort of solution to his solitude. One day during a particularly severe drought, the Earth answers him - the man finds the unconscious body of a woman in the soil cracked by the heat. Without stopping to think, he takes her home, resuscitates her and looks after her. This unexpected companion seriously test his convictions. How far can solitude go? A story about the ...
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The Redemption

Original title: Lunastus

2000 | Feature film, Short | Director: Mare Raidma

Costume and theatre artist Mare Raidma's director's debut. A short film about the transferral of the teenager girl's childhood traumas to adulthood.

Sanna has been put to the girl's boarding school where she suffers because of her mother committed to prison because of manslaughter. An intrigue arises in the dormitory, a relationship triangle between introvert Sanna, her practical roommate Anni and shy young man Toni who works in a laundry store. Toni grows very fond of Sanna. Sanna has difficulties in coping with the real world because of her fears that emerge from the memory images from her childhood. The budding sexuality of the teenage boy makes Sanna confused and she is dragged into the whirlwind of a relationship. While following her ...
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AA the Cure

Original title: AA ravi

1999 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Raimo Jõerand