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Vertical Money

Original title: Vara küps

2024 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Martti Helde

Where have the Estonian forests gone?

The documentary is a nature catastrophe film that made scandalous news even before it’s release in Estonia. Shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia the film opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The film also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war. The same kind of war that's being held across the globe.
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

A deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
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The Turnip

Original title: Naeris

2022 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Piret Sigus, Silja Saarepuu

The underground view to the story that is known by peasants point of view. Who owns the catch?

The film's story is based on the Slavic fairy tale, which tells the story by the peasants point of view. The film shows story, variously of fairy tale, from underground angle - giving overview what really happened while on ground was engaged in the cultivation of vegetables. Also about property, collaboration and betrayal.
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Time Quartet: Kissing Your Tongue

Original title: Ajakvartett: Suudle mind oma keelega

2022 | Experimental, Other categories | Director: Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash

Kisses that get lost in translation leave a trace on our skin.

Two lovers, separated by their nationalities, confess to each other things that they have never dared to share before, in their own native tongues.
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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Härmävidäjä

2021 | Short, Feature film | Director: Edina Csüllög

Young wannabe seto boy does not know his mother tongue and gets into trouble ordering the food in a local restaurant.

Young wannabe seto boy does not know his mother tongue and gets into trouble ordering the food in a local restaurant.
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Kihnu neiu

2021 | Anthropological, Documentary | Director:
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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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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Displaced

2020 | Animation, Students film | Director: Laura Benavides Ramirez

A foreign figure decides over the destiny of one indigenous woman. Her scape is a dance that reveals what means to be displaced.

A foreign figure decides over the destiny of one indigenous woman. Her scape is a dance that reveals what means to be displaced.
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