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Smalltown Miss

Original title in Estonian: Kolhoosi miss

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alexandra Pärn

The short film is made by second year film students. It is based on a Lilli Luuk's novella “Kolhoosi miss” following a story of two young girls, their friendship and growing up in a 1988 Soviet smalltown in Estonia.

Miina has grown up in a safe home environment. That can’t be said about her best friend, Liidia. Besides having a beautiful friendship and doing normal teenage things in the Soviet smalltown, there is some darkness to be faced. Everything begins to change when Liidia becomes influenced with a new arrival to town, a woman portraying what she aspires to be. A new, better and more confident version of herself, so that she could find a way out of her unsafe environment.
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So(u)ld

Original title in Estonian: Müüdud Hing

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Betra Käsper

In a suburbs of Tallinn, lives a pensioner Milvi, who is in desperate need of finding a connection. Her path crosses with door to door sell-man who becomes her so called friend.

This story is about MILVI (65 yo), who is a lonely pensioner living in the suburbs of Tallinn, Estonia. She’s a hoarder and having a hard time saying no to door-to-door salesmans. One day she gets paid a visit by a young salesman of a vacuum cleaner named Paul. Despite the age difference they become friends, but as in sales business, everything isn ́t as innocent as it seems. Milvis daughter Lenna is suspecting Paul of just seeing the chance of an easy cash grab. The question is- will Milvis pink glasses shatter into pieces or will she fall for it ...
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The Balconies

Original title in Estonian: Rõdud

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

The relationship between young partners suffers from gray everyday life. However, a mysterious exchange of flowers with the side balcony seems to be just what brings back the missing colour to their lives.
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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The Red Fairy Tale

Original title in Latvian: SARKANĀ PASAKA

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Frederiks Sebastians

A story about the time of the Soviet occupation.

A woman who lives under communist occupation in her country falls under suspicion of collaborating with a collaborator. She gets interrogated, compromising evidence is found on her. But they later let her go, allowing her to keep her old letters.
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The Unfamiliars

Original title in Estonian: Võõrad

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Lauri Elstelä

Movie about grief and moving on.

A human drama about a mother obsessed with documenting her dead son's apartment, a sister forced to inherit her dead brother's old belongings, and a son-in-law pretending to ignore a past affair with his dead lover. Together, they navigate familial tensions and secrets held from each other inside a house that is home to nobody.
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Till Life Do Us Part

Original title in Latvian: Līdz dzīve mūs šķirs

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Alise Linde

A story about a runaway bride who hitchhikes to a punk show.

The Bride is a 20-year-old girl running away from her wedding to go to her favorite punk band‟s last show. As she is hitchhiking to get to her destination she meets a humble, timid man with an odd soviet car. He takes her for a ride and on the way they get to know each other. When they stop at an inn at the side of the road the Bride has an encounter with a stranger which breaks down the emotional wall she has been trying to keep between herself and the man with whom she is traveling with. As ...
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Who Shot Otto Müller?

2022 | TV Serial | Director: René Vilbre

When a legendary businessman and former soviet wrestling champion Otto Müller is shot in his home manor on his 65th birthday, eight family members are present. Each of them tells a different story about the preceding events, each of them has a different motive. The first case for new partners Agnes and Gabriel puts their relationship heavily to test and threatens to reveal a terrible hidden secret.

When a legendary businessman and former soviet wrestling champion Otto Müller is shot in his home manor on his 65th birthday, eight family members are present. Each of them tells a different story about the preceding events, each of them has a different motive. The first case for new partners Agnes and Gabriel puts their relationship heavily to test and threatens to reveal a terrible hidden secret.
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Apartment

Original title in Estonian: Korter

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Katariina Škurinski

A short film about loneliness and growing old.

In a personal key, the film tells the story of a lonely old man living in his apartment, in the midst of the worries of the rest of the world. What happens in the apartment next door is everyday for him and is the only fascinating thing in this world.
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Athlete

Original title in Estonian: Atleet

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film “Athlete” was made by first-year films students of Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. The film shows how one man’s obsession can lead to harm for others. At the same time, the film also shows a father’s unwavering belief that his son is capable of more than it seems.

An authoritarian father is determened to make an athlete out of his weakling son. Unfortunately one man`s obsession might lead to dire consequences for another.
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