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What Would You Take?

Original title: Mille Sina võtaksid?

2023 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone.

Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone. Stories of twelve people from Ukraine who suddenly had to leave their home, taking only the bare essentials and a cherished belonging that speaks to their life.
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Let’s Keep on Rolling

Original title in Latvian: Rullējam Tālāk

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Rinalts Ignass, Oto Klavins

A short comedy about the friendship and grief of the elderly.

A hearse car gets stolen on it's way to a funeral. Two elderly men Alfred and his best friend Maris speed away in it and a mysterious lady chases after them. The two men enjoy their life to the fullest meanwhile the lady and the police are trying to catch them.
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Stronger by Stress

2022 | Documentary | Director: Andžei Matsukevits

World’s top experts talk about leveraging the science of stress adaptation and biohacking to become more resilient in our everyday lives.

Unexpected events and chaotic situations are bound to happen. No matter how advanced we think we are as a species, there is always something unpredictable that could cripple us as not only individuals but as an entire society. It's not a matter of if but when. We can’t do much about preventing these events from happening - we can only prepare for them in advance. Humans and other life forms have developed complex systems for dealing with environmental stressors. In fact, these pathways actually make us more resilient against the same kind of stress in the future. Thus, we become ...
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Vinyl Whisperer

Original title: Muusika, mida ma veel ei tea

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

Music, that Shazam doesn’t know and Spotify can’t find.

A vinyl archeologist armed with encyclopaedic knowledge and unbound passion for obscure music, embarks on a journey to find the rarest vinyl records of the Soviet era.
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Kodumaa karjed

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

Who's the man waving the flag?

Most powerful speeches and thoughts from demonstrations gathered into one essay to inspect – what troubles people and do they have a say?
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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Inga Can Hear

Original title in Latvian: Inga dzird

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaspars Goba

A girl trapped between two worlds.

Inga can hear is a coming-of-age story of a young girl trapped between two worlds. 16-year old Inga is the only hearing member of a deaf family living in the remote Latvian countryside. Since the age of 7, Inga has been the family's interpreter in the hearing world. Her role in the family has forced her to grow up very quickly and her personality fluctuates between a very responsible young woman and a moody teenager. Inga dreams about escaping her role as the family’s interpreter and, after completing elementary school, decides to leave home. But her classmates at the high ...
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Soviet Hippies

Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

A wild flower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement take you into the psychedelic underground of 1970s. In search of freedom and happiness under the thumb of the strict political regime a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds and other long-haired drop-outs created their own System in the Soviet Union. Years later, a group of eccentric hippies take a road journey to Moscow where people still gather annually on the 1st of June to commemorate a tragic event in 1971, when thousands of hippies were arrested by the KGB.
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