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Bluesman

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Daria Litvichenko

Having spent over thirty years in Finland and the Baltics, an eighty-three-year-old Bluesman from Oklahoma is finally coming home.

Jimmie Bluesman Lawson, an eighty-three-year-old Bluesman, spent over thirty years playing his music across Finland and the Baltics. Finally, Jimmie decides that it’s time to return to his home in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Meatballs and Dumplings

Original title: Frikadellid ja pelmeenid

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Heiki Ernits, Meelis Arulepp

The parable about human relations, differences and misunderstandings.

Meatballs live in their box in the refrigerator, and anything outside of that is forbidden and terrifying. In their opinion, the main threat in the outside world are mythical dumplings that no one has ever seen. But it just so happens that the two meatballs embark on an adventurous voyage of discovery outside the box. By the end of the journey, the world has changed not only for them, but also for all the other meatballs living in the box. And even better.
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Jaan

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ann Marii Moorus

A 12 year old simple school boy travels the world and grows up through eye-opening experiences, meanwhile facing the struggle of homesickness and missing out part of the “normal” childhood.

Jaan is a 12 year old schoolboy, who travels to places, what only few people get to visit during their lifetime. He tells us a story about his latest trip to North-Pole. Spending four months in a polar day, living on a boat, facing dangerous animals like polar bears or polar-foxes and learning every day something new about the Mother-Earth. But what does it actually mean to be a child sailing the Arctic sea and discovering the world, while other kids are enjoying their summer vacation? Or how does a teenager actually understand the size of the opportunities he has ...
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From wave and stone

Original title in Russian: Из волны и камня

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Margarita Levina

The film tells the autobiographical story of an author who wanted to change her place of residence in the hope of changing herself and her life. But it turned out that the country does not change anything if the soul remains the same.

The documentary tells the story of an author who for a long time really wanted to move somewhere from her home city, St. Petersburg. One day, she finally moves to Tallinn. And only then she begins to understand how she loves her hometown and how she misses it.
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Home(sick)ness

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Daria Litvichenko

Estonians living abroad reveal the poetry of the everyday as they share what makes them miss their home.
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How are you

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Worapoj In-lao

Documentary film of Thai student who is currently studying in Tallinn, Estonia, which visually narrate how he overcome tough time as well as settle his life into unfamiliar surrounding and environment.

The film runs by the number of phone conversations which were recorded during one period of time between him and his father who live 7000 miles away, alongside with image of Bangkok-Tallinn’s landscape in very personal visual aspect.
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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Pilots on the Way Home

Original title: Lendurid koduteel

2014 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn

Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert.

Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies.
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Better Tomorrow

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

Liis Nimik's film tells a story of several Estonian workers who have left to Finland for a better future.

Six years after Finland opens up it's job market to new EU member states, a considerable number of Estonians have left their poorly paid jobs in Estonia in search of a better tomorrow in Finland. A bag that's always packed, a bed in an anonymous room, a kitchen that's used by countless people – these are lives on permanent standby. This is a story of a house near Helsinki, where ten Estonians live on the ground floor and Tomi, their employer, a Finn and a true Estophile, on the second. Tomi wonders why the Estonians don't do much with ...
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Body Memory

Original title: Keha mälu

2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine.

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors, sustaining the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in the memory of the body?
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