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Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts

Original title in Estonian: Sulavõim

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Franz Malmsten jr

After the death of the world's last cow, a young couple finds themselves on a hunt for butter, through the labyrinth of their apartment building. When they finally reach the basement, a dangerous game for life and butter begins.

‘’Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts" is an absurd comedy, which takes place in a world where the last cow has died and butter has become the new gold, for which people are ready to do anything. Hera's husband, Ramses however, does not understand the criticality of the situation and eats all their butter supply. Fearing that without butter they will have no place in the new world, Hera decides they must find more butter before it is too late. During the couple's journey through the labyrinth of the apartment building, it becomes more and more apparent in how critical situation the ...
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Year Of The Pig

Original title: Sea aasta

2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

Monitoring a controversial year in the recent history of our country-the year 2019, an extensive visual essay of imminent serious challenges has been created by the author Raimo Jõerand. From winning the War of Independence to gaining freedom from Russian occupation during the Singing Revolution, we now have to defend our land from the brightest of foes, from ourselves. Will we be able to take on this fight?
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Horticulture in Lasnamägi

Title in Estonian: Lasnamäe kõplajad

2019 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Cabbages, beetroots and pumpkins – these are both food and a connecting element for people.

Anton, Maria, Liina and Liis founded a community garden in Lasnamäe district in Tallinn. Together the residents of multistored panel apartment buildings grow themselves herbs, vegetables and develop green thinking. Cabbage, beetroot and pumpkin are the things that make people closer and also provide food.
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Kodumaa karjed

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

Who's the man waving the flag?

Most powerful speeches and thoughts from demonstrations gathered into one essay to inspect – what troubles people and do they have a say?
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Oak Lake Pins

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Oto Klavins

The story centers around the idea of feeling alone among other people. This often is experienced in modern day society that when those who are different and do not relate to others are considered weird or socially awkward. The story of Oak Lake Pins experiments with this idea – What if everyone around you were complete idiots and you were stuck on an island with them?

Oak Lake Pins is the story of a young, depressed man Oliver who finds that his favorite bowling alley has been shut down because of other people’s foolishness. Without any happiness left for him in the town of Oak Lake he decides to leave but soon he finds out that all his life he has been living on an island and as it turns out everyone has known that already except for Oliver himself. Oliver takes his first steps of an attempt to escape the island by building a raft, but soon he realizes that someone wants to prevent that ...
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Cultural Heroes: Losers

Original title in Estonian: "Kultuuriheerosed: Luuserid"

2018 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Helen Tammemäe

Students Tammemäe Helen and Marie-Helene Hazel broadcast "Losers" looks at the Estonian cultural space specific to the archetypal loser loser explains the nature.

“Cultural Heroes” is a documentary series about the common archetypes in Estonian culture that are seen in books, movies and TV-series. The pilot episode “Losers” focuses on the loser character that is quite commonly depicted in different Estonian movies throughout the time. The episode explains who losers are, their hopes, principles and place in today’s success-based society.
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Anthill

Original title: Sipelgapesa

2015 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

Vladimir Loginov´s “Anthill” is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.

Vladimir Loginov´s “Anthill” is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back.
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Noah

Original title (in Estonian): "Noa"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaanus Lensment

Politician releases untested virus upon lower class of society in order to make citizens controllable and maintain the power. Things go awry; virus turns dead people into zombies. A scientist is left responsible to find a cure for a virus or she will be blamed for all the mayhem.
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