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Weight of Light

2024 | Feature film, Short | Director: Anna Hints

A teenage girl's eyes open up to the untold stories of women surrounding her, when she stumbles upon a photo camera on a vast garbage mountain in Delhi.

Surya, a teenage ragpicker, finds a camera on a huge garbage mountain in Delhi. The camera becomes her window to the untold stories of women surrounding her. The film walks the line between documentary and fiction and focuses on a community of garbage collectors who try to find their place in the world amidst garbage and scorching heat.
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Öö

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Teresa Väli
It’s About a Wedding

Original title in Estonian: See räägib pulmast

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Säde

Short comedy drama about a heartbroken novelist who deals with her crush marrying someone else by writing him the worst wedding imaginable.

What would you do if your crush was about to marry someone else? ‘’It’s About a Wedding’’ is the story of a sarcastic novelist burdened with unrequited love and a deadline. In an effort to escape a bad case of writer's block, she decides to channel her pain into her work, writing the worst wedding imaginable for her crush complete with a bitchy bridezilla. As both the real and fictional worlds begin to merge, events start to spiral out of control. After all, anything can happen when you're fueled by heartbreak, weed, and female rage.
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Funny Family

Originalt title (in Russian): Веселая cемейка

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Pogosov

The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.

Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow

Original title: Mehetapja/Süütu/Vari

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

Shades, breaths, whispers, hunches, mystery - they are all fading away. Everything else seems more important.

The Manslayer employs a theme known in Scandinavian and Estonian folklore. The time frame of the story is from the early morning of a wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The characters are driven by force majeure – the local customs and rituals which were common a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia. In fear ...
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Villa Antropoff

2012 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?

Once upon a time, there lived a man who had nothing besides himself. And a dream, a great big dream. But an immense and dangerous sheet of water spread out between him and his dream. The man set out. He arrived at his destination due to his courage and tenacity. But was that what he had been searching for?
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Kihnu Wedding

Original title: Kihnu pulm

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

The documentary introduces wedding traditions and rites in Kihnu island, Estonia.

A big event is going to take place in Kihnu island - an authentic Kihnu wedding party that lasts for three days. Meelis Leas has proposed Raili Oad and they get married in July 2007. On the first day their marriage will be registered in Pärnu vital statistics office. Then the couple will be taken to the island by boat and all residents of the island will greet them at the harbour. Then the bride goes to her home with her relatives and the groom does the same with his relatives. After sharing a collective meal it is time to ...
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Waterbomb for the Fat Tomcat

Original title: Veepomm paksule kõutsile

2004 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Varis Brasla

The funny family film directed by Latvian filmmaker Varis Brasla tells about sisters who are taken care by their aunt for two weeks while their parents are away.

This is a contemporary story about two little sisters whose parents are away and the children are taken care by their aunt. Even if the strict babysitter and the girls are getting into a fight with each other, the labyrinth of unexpected events leads to a happy end.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Harri Martinson
Kolmest kaheteistkümneni

1965 | Musical film | Director: Virve Aruoja, Astrid Lepa
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