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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Next stop: Estonia

Original title in Estonian: Järgmine peatus: Eesti

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Baran Ismail Ulas

The documentary follows 18 years old Syrian refugee who strives to adapt in a small nordic country.

Adel was only 12-years old when the civil war in Syria reached his hometown. His parents immediately decided to leave the country. For four years, Adel and his family lived abroad as illegal refugees. They travelled from country to country, slept on the streets, fought hunger and diseases. However, their life changed when they got a message from the refugee organisaWon: A small nordic country, which they had never heard of before, accepted them as temporary ciWzens. Now, Adel has to learn to deal with the injuries of his past, and to the cold climate and reserved society of Estonia.
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Helsinki - Baghdad

Original title in Finnish: "Helsinki - Bagdad"

2018 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vilma Mannermaa

Iraqi refugees in Finland try to stay in the country.

Ali left his home country Iraq fearing for his live and came to Finland looking for safety. Alisa is from Finland, but she married a refugee from Iraq and is fighting to keep him in the country. Both of them are trying to find their way in the country in the aftermath of the refugee crisis, where immigration is made harder and nothing is certain.
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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The Eternal Road

Original title in Finnish: Ikitie

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.

During the 1930s great depression Stalin invites all the workers of the world to come build a new society based on justice, equality and freedom. More than 10.000 Americans answers this call. One of them is Jussi Ketola, an American with Finnish origins. However, the dream of a communistic paradise is quickly shattered when Jussi is harassed by fascist thugs on one side and the Soviet secret police on the other. Despite the many challenges Jussi manages to settle down in the community and build a family, but as the political climate changes the foreigners become unwanted elements in Stalin’s ...
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The Overcoat

Original title in Estonian: Talvelugu

2017 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen

A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.

It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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A Momentous Contribution

Title in Estonian: Kaalukas panus

1990 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mart Taevere

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee. Unprecedented level of senseless industrialisation was achieved under his leadership in 10 years, hundreds of thousands of people were brought here as labor power. A fight against estonian language was started in several fields of activity. Any kind of thinking expect the "right" one was sufficient reason to arrest its carrier...
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Hiina müüri ääres

1988 | Documentary | Director: Valeria Anderson, Valeri Blinov
Homeland again

Original title: Jälle kodumaal

1949 | Documentary | Director: Arnold Juhkum

Propaganda documentary about the Estonians who left Estonia during the World War II to the West and later returned to their homeland.

It has been estimated that about 90 thousand Estonians fleed to the West from Estonia during the World War II. More than 21 thousand Estonians repatriated or returned to their homeland. Among these people were very few those who returned voluntarily – most were forced to go back to "the red paradise" by democratic countries in the West. The filmmakers meet several Estonians who have returned to their homeland.
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My parents are emigrants

Students film, Documentary | Director: Vaidas Misiunas