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Backs

Original title: Seljad

2023 | Other categories | Director: Ivar Murd

Backs!

What animal is this, which haunts the TV frames of Estonia? What is he hunting for? Where is he going? How does he reproduce? Is he in danger? Backs!
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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Attorney Monika Mägi

Original title: Monika

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ken Saan, Steven-Hristo Evestus

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career will argue.

Retired top lawyer Monika Mägi and Steven-Hristo Evestus, who is at the peak of his prosecuting career, meet and argue. They are focused to talk about real-life arguments. Only the main character Monika can answer for our questions. All of this is happening outside of the courtroom playground, and our talks are mostly focused on life-related topics. The portrait story also sheds light on the human nuances in the court. From the counterpart Estonian top prosecutors and advocates will talk.
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Loved

Original title: Armastasin

2019 | Feature film, Short | Director: Natalja Matšenene

When a stage director Anna and a businessman Maxim meet they both get the feeling that they have known each other for ages. Nevertheless they can't take their relationship further due to personal values and social norms. One day Anna comes to a regression therapy and finds out about her previous lives.

After the premiere of her stage production, Anna meets Maxim. They both feel that they have known each other for donkey’s years. They begin to socialise, but the development of their relationship is complicated. Anna gets to a psychologist – regression practitioner, where she learns that her problems lie beyond this life. Anna agrees to undergo a regression therapy session, during which she remembers that she and Maxim have met in their past lives and swore to love each other forever. In the present life Anna once again tries to fulfil her promise.
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War on Boring Walls

Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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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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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Põrgu Indias

2017 | Documentary | Director: Kaido Veermäe
The Plague

Original title: Katk

2017 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Keil

There are about ten thousand drug addicts who inject in Estonia. At some point, that could come closer to home than we think. This is an addiction epidemic. This is our century’s plague. We can notice. And we can care.

Estonia is currently at the forefront in Europe when it comes to drug-related deaths. And to the spread of HIV. There’s a Skype development center in Tallinn. Our Olympic team is made up of successful, healthy, athletic, beautiful and clean Estonian people. We have a lot to be proud of and a lot of pretty and happy stories to tell. But we also have needle exchange programs. It’s easy to exchange your needles but just try to exchange your whole life! Life changers are those who are dedicated to helping drug addicts. They exchange their used syringes for new ones. ...
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