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Cracks

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Anna Veisman

Loreen enters the cellar to clear out old ice skating equipment, but confronted with her own self, finds it impossible to let go of the past.

Loreen has always had concerns over her body image and after bearing the intense standards of figure skating for years, she wants to get rid of that part of her life to hopefully move on from her fears. Entering the cellar where all her stuff is locked away, she meets her own self, who tries to help Loreen face her demons. All Loreen has to do is to look at her copy, to see there’s nothing wrong with her body. But the fear in Loreen is too great, so in the struggle she becomes more and more desperate.
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Scandinavian Silence

Original title: Skandinaavia vaikus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Martti Helde

We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.

Film in three parts, two characters and one obsession: to prevent the past from taking over... Psychological drama with the elements of thriller tells about the reuniting of two characters. Through the winter landscape, they take a journey together that open up the reasons of a violent event that happened years ago. Unsolved past leads the characters to make a choice that will define their future.
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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Roots: With Mum At The Monastery

Original title: Juured: Emaga kloostris

2018 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?

A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
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Letting Go

Original title: Lahtilaskmise lugu

2017 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Story about a young girl from orphanage who wants to let go of the shadows that haunt her past.

Our culture is based on stories. Stories make up our foundation. We can look at our lives as a story – our biography is our life story. Like the stories, some people are tragic and some are funny and some we do not understand at all.  But what happens when these stories shouldn’t be told? Is it possible to let go of a story, to give it up? Is it possible to make a film about a girl whose only desire is to be rid of her story and to forget it for good?  Ülo Pikkov's animated documentary is about ...
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Closure

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

An insignificant janitor needs recognition from other people to validate his own existence.

An insignificant theater janitor struggles between forgiveness and revenge towards a famous actor with whom he shares a traumatic past.
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Better Life

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

The film is an exercise in limitations, shot in two days, two main actors and one location. The focus on the film besides the limitations was to work closely with the actors and sound design.

A dark comedy about a man’s struggle to make a change for a better life.
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Wounds of Afghanistan

Original title: Afganistani armid

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

Two veterans of Afghanistan War return to the military territories where they once fought. When they were twenty years old, they were sent to fight abroad where it was impossible to exit as a winner.

„Wounds of Afghanistan“ is a film about Estonian men currently in their forties whose lives were changed forever during the period of 1979-1989 when Estonians were forced to fight with the Soviet army in Afghanistan. When twenty-year old, they were sent by the Soviet authorities to the Afghan War where no-one had ever left as a winner. This was a a war for foreign country and unknown purposes. Every man tried to escape – few succeeded. The heroes of the film are the artist Aivar Simson – Simson from Seaküla - and Leino Juhkam. The first one lost his nerves in ...
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Helmut

2001 | Students film, Short | Director: Anri Rulkov
Näitus Stalinism ja Eesti

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heikki Aasaru