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Old Man Cartoon Movie

Original title: Vanamehe Film

2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.
The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Full House

Original title: Täis maja

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

Sky is not the limit!

At the end of a tiring workday, a mailman meets his future spouse.
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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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Wedding Game

Original title: Pulmamäng

2015 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Andres Tenusaar, Malle Valli, Marili Sokk

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale.

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale which uses different handicraft and animation techniques and has so many authors that it could be considered folkloric itself.
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Searching for the Light

Original title: Otsides valgust

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui

Portrait documentary directed by Heini Drui about Raivo Hein, a successful internet businessman, astrophotographer, adventurer and traveler.

Raivo Hein is a successful internet businessman, amateur astronomist, astrophotographer and traveler. He is both an idealist and a materialist. Raivo is probably the first cosmonaut in Estonia since he has the ticket for the space trip organized by sir Richard Branson. Raivo believes in science, common sense and the bright future of the humankind. He believes that the 1000-year-old man is already born. Raivo contemplates on the future of humanity as well as the mystery of life and the universe. The subjects of truth, its existence and the ways of reaching it are being discussed by Raivo, astrophysicist Jaan ...
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Bad Hair Friday

Original title: Vasaku jala reede

2012 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Kõpper, Arun Tamm

The first full-length feature film directed by Andres Kõpper and Arun Tamm is a crime/adventure film spiced by black humour. The roads of several different groups of people cross during one violent night.

Three friends get together at a bus station on a regular Friday morning - and all they think about is beer and pretty girls. In 25 hours, they will be in the middle of violent events where the number of dead bodies keeps growing. With the help of an old sports bag and a 70-year-old gun, eight different stories are being interwoven in the film, including great amount of colourful characters: criminals quoting Nietzsche; a veteran of World War II who imitates Clint Eastwood while trying to make the world a better place; a group of junkies who have flushed ...
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Three springs of Total Immersion Method

Original title: Keelekümblejate kolm kevadet

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Russian children study Estonian language with the Total Immersion Method in a Tallinn school in 2001-2012.

In 2001, the first language class using the Total Immersion Method started in Tallinn Läänemere Grammar School where Russian children were specialised in Estonian language. The documentary series "Total Immersion Method users" was filmed in the spring of 2003 that introduced the life of those graduating from the third grade. In 2007 the filmmakers returned to the students. The documentary "Two springs of the Total Immersion Method" was born. In the spring of 2012, the filmmakers are back again - they follow the activities of the same youngsters who are graduating from the grammar school. Kokku saab film ühe põlvkonna ...
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Oracle is Born ...?

Original title: Prohveti sünd

2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

Human beeing is the slave of his imagination.

Human beeing is the slave of his imagination. It is a long and complicated journey of finding the way out of it and it requires a good memory.
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Engagement in Kihnu island

Original title: Kihnu kosjad

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

Engagement according to the traditions and customs of Kihnu island, Estonia. The documentary introduces the engagement rites in their most natural environment.

Kihnu is a very small island in the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Meelis and Raili will get married soon. They decide to follow their ancestors' traditions, customs and rites and plan their wedding party accordingly. All traditional wedding-related activities and rites are accompanied by music, dancing and colourful jokes common to the islanders.
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