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Göllia

2021 | Short, Students film | Director: Gergely Lőrinczi

Perception of the world surrounding us. A day in a life of an ornithologist, that changes everything.

The young ornithologist is waiting for the black storks to return to Estonia after the long winter. The birds are late this year, and when he is realizing it why, he is breaking down.
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Olevik

2021 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Johan Huimerind

Johan Huimerinna's short documentary talks about being alone in the middle of nature, silence and noise.

In the time of social distancing, we find ourselves at Oleviks place, for whom being alone is an everyday thing. A dialogue of the nature, the silence, the noise and the human itself who is surrounded by all of that
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The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
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A Question of Recording

2020 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

The short documentary made by director-editor Eik Erik Sikk, DoP Tristan Luige and sound engineer Ralf Schneider creates an insight to the creative process of two Estonian music producers, Sander Mölder and Sammalhabe.

“A Question of Recording” presents a small overview of two Estonian music producer’s creative processes and their personalities: how and why do they work with sound art. The main cause of this project is to record local artists in their own element, in a environment where they feel safe, and fit it all into the narrow frame of a portrait story. Being the first try in this format, the film opens the gate for making similar clips in the future, mapping out the contemporary Estonian music makers like a visual almanac.
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Backwoodsman

Original title in Estonian: Mees metsast

2020 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Maaja Hallik

Maaja Hallik's short documentary on environmental activism.

A young man Mati, living in a small village between Estonian forests, becomes an environmental activist and eventually a politician after realizing how the forest industry is having a devastating impact on nature.
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The Bitch

Original title in Finnish: Narttu

2020 | Short, Students film | Director: Ville Niemi

The Bitch is a tragicomic story of a lost girl, three rural brothers and their dog.

A 20-year old girl disappears in a small village somewhere in Finland. The whole village is involved in the quest to find the girl, but Johannes, the youngest of the three rural brothers, seems to have the most urgent need to find the girl. His brothers do not seem interested at all in finding the girl. They prefer to spend their time drinking and fighting. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Johannes is not looking for the girl, but for his lost dog. When the dog is found dead, Johannes makes a decision, after which there is no ...
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World’s Fire

Original title in Finnish: Maailmanpalo

2020 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Ville Niemi

World's fire is a poetic exploration of the nordic forest through sound, visuals and finnish poetry.

Film shows the nordic forest on one imaginary day. First is shown the morning, and the beauty of the forest. There everything is living, ants, bugs and birds. After that the destruction starts to fade in. Trees start to fall, forest is burning. After that comes the silence and the burned forest.
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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Maran

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Ants Tammik

Documentary about nature photographer Rein Maran who shares his thoughts about his experiences in nature and philosophy of life.

The life's work of the grand old man of Estonian film Rein Maran lies in a unique collection of numerous nature documentaries. With the sensitive filmmaker´s eye, he has directed for more than fifty films and has captured invaluable visual material. Also by teaching young filmmakers, his contribution to Estonian culture is greater than anyone could understand. In this documentary, we will learn about Rein Maran´s philosophy of life and follow him along his memorable shooting locations.
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Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov
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