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Melchior the Apothecary

Original title: Apteeker Melchior

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

When a murderer is loose in town, the town is sick. It’s time to call the apothecary.

Melchior Wakenstede is a clever and curious apothecary who, in addition to healing the sick, solves murders that shake the town. In a medieval world, where people look for signs of God or the Devil in everything, Melchior’s detective work appears to be truly magical – it’s even believed that he can speak with the dead. Melchior’s actual “secret weapon” is his knack for noticing traitorous details and his ability to understand the darkest desires of the human soul. He knows, better than anyone else, that sin is waiting at the door, and temptation can poison even the most noble ...
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Patarei partii

2022 | Other categories | Director: Liisa Rita Viitung
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Foster Mothers

Title in Estonian: Kasuemad

2021 | Documentary, Nature, Problem oriented | Director: Meelis Muhu

The volunteers of the Wildlife Association rescue wild animals that have been involved in accidents as a result of human activities.

Wild animals are in trouble. In areas that have always been covered with forests, there are now new housing estates, highways and polygons. Because of human activity, more and more animals get into accidents. But the injured animals still have hope because volunteer foster mothers take care for them, heal them and let them go back to nature.
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Vseviov

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Elen Lotman

It's David Vseviov's birthday - a day that becomes a journey through stories of time

Documentary about Estonian media personality David Vseviov. He is one of the most well-known Estonian radio voices whose fascinating stories about cultural history have captivated radio listeners for generations. The film opens up the person behind the mythical radio voice and it does it through the protagonist's big seventieth birthday party.
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country. He inexplicably morphs into a psychedelic cowboy during a hypnosis session and begins another journey in his subconscious. A humorous attempt on finding a path in a documentary that also addresses viewers spiritual and transcendental reality, and renders out a surreal metaphor from behind and beyond the image. Involving two separate, but intersecting stories, while mixing experimental documentary and fiction.
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Funny Family

Originalt title (in Russian): Веселая cемейка

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Pogosov

The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.

Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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The Quiet Night

2010 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Julia Kalvalid
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The lake and the city

Original title: Järv ja linn

2010 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Riho Västrik portrays Lake Ülemiste as a source of drinking water and a valuable natural environment.

Lake Ülemiste is located directly by Tallinn airport and is the mostly used natural lake in Estonia. Figuratively speaking, every resident of Tallinn is in direct contact with the lake through their tap - drinking water has been taken from the lake already since 14th century. The prohibited zone around the lake makes the territory a valuable natural environment for birds, animals and fish who have to compete with airplanes.
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Babyface

Original title: Beebilõust

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Margit Lillak

Portrait documentary about Andrus Elbing alias Babyface - a poet, rap singer and hip-hop artist with a complicated background.

Andrus Elbing alias Babyface is a 28-year-old poet, rap singer, a hip-hop artist and a former prisoner from the island of Saaremaa. He tells his story through recollections and poetry - how he became from a risk group child to a criminal young man, from a prisoner to a poet and a musician. Through his art, Babyface looks for his way out from his "personal imprisonment"; however, the locks of an inner prison door won't open that easily. The documentary follows the way Andrus adjusts to freedom after his imprisonment. Is it possible to escape such past after all? Is ...
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