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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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Öö

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Teresa Väli
Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Original title in Russian: Капитан Волконогов бежал

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov

Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...

The events of this parable take place in a city that resembles Leningrad (USSR) in 1938. This is a tense period of political persecutions and mass fear. The Captain of the Department of Internal Affairs Fyodor Volkonogov (32) specializes in obtaining self-incrimination from persons under investigation using special methods of force. But the moment comes for the repressive system to turn the eye on its own soldiers. Volkonogov’s direct supervisor commits suicide. Fyodor foresees his own arrest and flees, thus becoming “the enemy” hunted by the colleagues. Lucky to get regular clothes Captain is looking for the shelter ...
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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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Kevin, No!

Original title: Kevin, ei!

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leslie Laasner

Smart life addicts on an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island.

A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organise n adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favourite activity - surfing on the phone. However, the smart life addicts who have grown under the light of their screens for their whole life, are surprised to discover that there is a place in the world with no coverage of WiFi. Crushing boredom sets in quickly and hope fades along with cell phone batteries: is there anything at all to be done in such a desolate place? Soon the discover some old-timer on the island who has a tempting ...
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Chasing Ponies

Original title: Ameerika suvi

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States. This movie touches us all, as summer work in the US has become something of a phenomenon among students in Europe - everyone knows someone who has spent a summer in USA - some experiences good, some not so good, each a story in it's own right. This movie is your chance to experience their adventures firsthand. Without sacrificing 3 months of your life. Filming took place in September 2015. It was all ...
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Mausoleum

Original title: Mausoleum

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

Grotesque and tragicomical story about the Soviet pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who eviscerated Lenin's dead body in 1924 and performed its initial enbalming. Since then, Abrikosov's and his assistant Sasha's lives have been related to taking care of Lenin's body. It is the year 1936, the era of Stalin's night-time repressions. No one can sleep, there are arrestments and executions. No one is protected from the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), especially the élite of USSR. And then, right before the 1st of May, a fly gets into the Lenin's sarcophagus. Before the visit of the great leader Stalin, Abrikosov ...
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Grounded

Original title: Tiibateta piloot

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Leeni Linna

Short film directed by Leeni Linna about the struggles of a pilot who has lost one eye in Afghanistan war.

In the war in Afghanistan, the helicopter pilot Raul (34) loses sight in one eye and is stripped of his wings. The depressed Raul infuriates his wife and she moves away from him with their child. Raul feels like a useless cripple and decides to end his life. He builds a flying machine from helium balloons and decides to take the last flight of his life in it.
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Bad Hair Friday

Original title: Vasaku jala reede

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Kõpper, Arun Tamm

The first full-length feature film directed by Andres Kõpper and Arun Tamm is a crime/adventure film spiced by black humour. The roads of several different groups of people cross during one violent night.

Three friends get together at a bus station on a regular Friday morning - and all they think about is beer and pretty girls. In 25 hours, they will be in the middle of violent events where the number of dead bodies keeps growing. With the help of an old sports bag and a 70-year-old gun, eight different stories are being interwoven in the film, including great amount of colourful characters: criminals quoting Nietzsche; a veteran of World War II who imitates Clint Eastwood while trying to make the world a better place; a group of junkies who have flushed ...
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