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Butterfly Hunters

2020 | Making of, Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

An autobiographic documentary about young filmmakers' trip through Europe in search of a producer for short film Butterfly Man.

A 17-minute documentary about filmmaking. Two Estonian talents, Edina and Kristo, travel through Europe in search of a producer for their short film Butterfly Man. The roadtrip ends with a 10-minute pitching session in front of an international audience. Accompanied by hypnotic guitar landscapes and remarkably bad camerawork, boundaries between dreams and real, past and future, screenplay and actual events dissappear.
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The Story Of Peep Puks

Original title: Peep Puksi lugu

2019 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.

An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on a lost time, the films that have accompanied him, and the colleagues without whom this all wouldn’t have happened. It’s an aspect of stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary.
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | 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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Your own eye is a king

Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

2018 | Observation, Making of, Documentary | Director:

Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

Kenya is mostly a relatively peaceful land in the African context, but when it comes to elections then the hell is out. Thousands of people were killed in the violent events that hit Kenya after elections in 2008. It is the year of 2017 and once again an election year in Kenya. Most security experts of different politicians and public authorities in Kenya are confident that the 2007 bad scenario will recur and even worse than ever before. The director Ken Saan invites longtime war reporter Ivar Heinmaa to join him, to guide in the war situation and share the tricks ...
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Spiders 4500 years ago

Original title in Estonian: Ämblikud 4500 aastat tagasi

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Tätte jr
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Projection

2009 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Helen Takkin

A short film look upon the magic of 35mm projection.
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Pretty people

Original title: Ilusad inimesed

2008 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Missikonkursil Miss Vaimukad 2007 asuvad võistlustulle vaimupuudega neiud-naised, omamoodi ilusad ja õnnelikud inimesed.

In the spring of 2007, young women with intellectual disability start preparing for a beauty contest in Estonia. Beauty contest called "Miss Witty 2007" takes place in a recreational center in Tuksi, Lääne county, Estonia at the end of August 2007. The contest is tutored by Miss Estonia 2007, Viktoria Azovskaya, who teaches, mentors, encourages and consoles. Young participans are excited, happy and sincere. Young woman Pille Siplane from Saaremaa island is crowned as Miss Witty 2007 whose dream is to make a film herself one day. Winning the competitions helps Pille to fulfill her dream since she gets the ...
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Asta ja Georg

2007 | Making of, Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
Cinema to Your Doorsteps

Original title: Kinobuss - kino koju kätte

2004 | Making of, Documentary | Director: Mikk Rand

In summers, filmmakers together with film students travel around Estonia by an old bus called "Kinobuss" with the purpose of restoring cinema traditions in Estonia.

Kinobuss is a revived form of mobile cinema. Young filmmakers and film students travel around Estonia in order to promote Estonian film and introduce contemporary means of the "moving picture" with the help of technological innovations. Through the protagonists' enthusiastic attitude towards life and sharing their knowledge on cinematography, the documentary observes the traveling of Kinobuss, the road-movie-ish story about the possibilities of cinema in a small territory such as Estonia where the importance of culture, and cinema culture, outweighs the one of economy.
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Rein Raamat in Animafilmtion World

Original title: Rein Raamat animatsiooni maailmas

1999 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

The work of Rein Raamat, one of the most outstanding Estonian animated film directors and artists, seen through his own and his colleagues` eyes.