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Bariton frakis

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaak Järvine, Karmo Kaasik
Feathers or Glamour

Original title: Suled või glamuur

2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Kübar

How did an egg-centric rural bird, the chicken, become a trendy urban pet and what does she think about living in the city?

The apocalyptic tendencies of the first COVID wave in 2020 led hundreds of people living in urban settlements to start keeping chickens in their backyard. Following three different families in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, the documentary investigates how a chicken turned from egg-centric rural bird into a trendy urban pet. How does she feel in the City? Is chicken the new dog? Living beak to beak with humans has made chickens more self-aware, more individualistic and more human-like in every way. Weird accessories, bizarre glamorous events and uncommonly good living conditions now form a part of the urban chicken's everyday ...
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Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

Quiet songs in unknown languages.

The fire attendant is present. She is aware that she is not omnipotent, at peace, because the fire must be guarded. She has agreed that everything will pass, she herself will no longer be who she was yesterday. She has agreed to her daily duty to quietly face herself day in and day out and to make friends with fire to survive. The film, which takes place through the lives of various firekeepers, looks at the life cycle of a person through several characters - Krete, Karep and Käsper, sister and brothers, who look at the world as if it ...
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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori ( 1894 - 1944 ) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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In the Name of Science

Original title: Teaduse nimel

2023 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Documentary film about Covid19 and medical treatment related to Covid19.

This is a documentary film in the series of Estonian Stories, an Estonian story about the corona crisis. One of the main characters is Kaari Saarma, with a background in molecular biology, who believes the crisis could be solved with the help of ivermectin. The other main character is Kairi Riigor, Chief Physician of the Intensive Care Unit at the North Estonia Medical Centre, who treats critically ill coronavirus patients. The film looks at how the divide between two opposing sides has come about: on one side, there is the conventional medicine; on the other side, the so-called vaccine deniers. ...
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Kaks südant

2023 | Documentary | Director: Steiv Silm
Kui seda parki ees ei oleks

2023 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aleksandr Heifets, Madis Ligema
L is for Love

Original title: A nagu armastus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Spungin

When Indrek's wife says that she is not happy with the marriage and something needs to change, Indrek must find a way to save the marriage.

The author of the film, Indrek Spungin, has reached the port of love and peace, he is married and the father of several children, everything seems beautiful, but one day his wife tells him that if nothing changes, then love and marriage will soon be over. Indrek is confused. He takes his friend Taavi with the camera and goes to find out what love really is. He questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as love and marriage. The topic is broadened by three protagonists with a personal touch: Jarmo, who has just fallen in love ...
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Savvusannasümfoonia (tootmises)

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints
The Last Relic

2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A spirited 20-year-old Left Block activist tries to find common ground among Russia’s political activists and opposition groups, hoping to bring positive changes to society. Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of open-minded people desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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