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Erna At War

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Henrik Ruben Genz

When Erna’s simple-minded son, Kalle, is conscripted for military service, she swaps identity with a soldier and heads towards the front to protect her child. While the world is at war, Erna fights her own.

The year is 1918. The Great War is raging through Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary, tranquil life at home in Bramstrup where she lives with her simple-minded son, Kalle. That is until the day when everything changes as the village constable Meier shows up to conscript Kalle for military service for the German Empire of which Southern Jutland, at this time, is a part. Ever since Kalle’s dramatic birth, Erna has promised the Lord that no one should ever be allowed to touch so much as a single hair on the boy’s head and now she has to hand ...
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Homesickness

Original title in Estonian: Koduigatsus

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Silver Õun

Student film by BFM second year students filmed on 16mm film. The film tells a story of a young family's loss. Their grief and incapability of moving on after a personal tragedy.

On a dark November eve, Siim (27) is introducing his packed up home to potential buyers. They inspect the house thoroughly to make sure there is nothing wrong with it. The price is cheap and the conditions are good only Siim seems a bit weird. Suddenly Siim's wife Mirjam drops in from her travels and the tragic story behind the house starts to unrave.
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It’s About a Wedding

Original title in Estonian: See räägib pulmast

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Säde

Short comedy drama about a heartbroken novelist who deals with her crush marrying someone else by writing him the worst wedding imaginable.

What would you do if your crush was about to marry someone else? ‘’It’s About a Wedding’’ is the story of a sarcastic novelist burdened with unrequited love and a deadline. In an effort to escape a bad case of writer's block, she decides to channel her pain into her work, writing the worst wedding imaginable for her crush complete with a bitchy bridezilla. As both the real and fictional worlds begin to merge, events start to spiral out of control. After all, anything can happen when you're fueled by heartbreak, weed, and female rage.
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Lockdown

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Niina Rostovtseva

A young couple is experiencing a relationship crisis in the period of self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which culminates with unexpected confessions during an online game.

A young couple experiences difficulties in their relationship because of the self-isolation during the spread of the coronavirus disease around the world. After an unsuccessful haircut from his wife, the main character loses his temper and shows the first signs of domestic violence. In order to unwind in difficult times, the couple’s friends offer to make an online video call party, during which they agree to play the "Truth or Dare" game. However, no one could predict which secrets will emerge during the game.
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Loneliness

BFM koreograafia õppekava: bakalaureusetöö

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Samuel Koppel, Rafael Melo, Aline Belfort, Mazin Helal

Dance film about a young man in loneliness.

Dance film depicts a young man in loneliness. The cultural-spatial context is a welfare society. Most of the dance film's activities take place in an apartment, where over time the character begins to struggle with loneliness. He gets rid of the feeling of loneliness temporarily through pleasures, but in reality the problem has grown. How can he overcome this feeling? What needs to happen?
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Look what you made me do

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Psychological drama about abusive relationships. Ingmar is a narcissist who can't cope being abandoned by his girlfriend. Unable to stand alone he goes out to hunt another victim and repeats the cycle of emotional abuse to feed his need for validation but this time thing will go wrong.

Ingmar is a narcissist with relationship issues and repeatedly manipulates and emotionally abuses his partners creating a cyclical panern of behavior. Ingmar seeks anention, control, admiration and when he fails to obtain his goal he creates a chaos around him puong himself again as the centre of anention. His misbehavior leads him to be ignored and abandoned, which is his deepest fear.
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MIA: Concern for The Cat

Original title in Estonian: MIA: Kassiahastus

2020 | Students film, Animation | Director: Johanna Randmann

“Mia: Concern for The Cat” gives a hint what are the pets up to when their owners are not at home.

As soon as Mia leaves home in the morning and kisses her kitty Nurri goodbye, strange things take place while she’s gone. After seeing the cat when returning, the girl falls into distress and realises it is time to rearrange the householding.
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My Dear Corpses

Original title in Estonian: Mu kallid laibad

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: German Golub

Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki is forced to agree to become a corpse carrier to take care of his lonely mother.

Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a rather difficult task to take care of his lonely mother. He’s forced to agree to become a corpse carrier. But the situation is about to get a whole lot worse, when Erki meets his new colleague for whom it's just another day in the field.
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Old Men and the Sea

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Daria Litvichenko

A film about one strong memory that even a severe illness cannot defy.

Led by the mysterious mirage of his once lost ship, a retired sea captain follows it to the very end.
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