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Legends of Winding Roads

Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

One of the golden decades of 100-year-old Estonian autosport was the 80s. Estonians were such great rally drivers that several of our crews raced in the USSR team every season. The status of a member of the Soviet Union team was the highest peak, and it was every driver's dream to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages. They drove a Lada VFTS with FIA Group B homologation, which ...
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Kadunud isa

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško
Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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On The Water

Original title: Vee peal

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The film talks about boyhood, friendship, first love, loss of loved ones, self-discovery, and coming of age. Despite the brutality and tragedy, it is a warm and humorous story of caring, humanity, and love.

Andres, the main character of the film, is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door. Among them are a rough but sensible recidivist Valter and the simpleminded fisherman Kolla. And the only way to escape from his worries is to go fishing on the lake... The film talks about boyhood, friendship, first love, loss of loved ones, self-discovery, and coming of age. Despite the brutality and tragedy, it is a warm and humorous story ...
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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Those Who Dare – on solidarity of small nations

Original title (Icelandic): Deir Sem Dora

2015 | Documentary | Director: Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
2 Balls of Vanilla

Original title in Estonian: "Vanilli 2 palli"

2013 | Students film, Music video | Director: Eik Tammemäe

It's a true story about ice cream seller Simmu, who wanted to go to the party.
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Jesus, Gays and Pussicats

Original title: Jeesus, homod ja kiisud

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Kolberg

The protagonist of the documentary is Rein Mets, an extremely controversial man known as an evangelist and founder of the Living Word religious movement in Estonia. He is also a father of five children, a bisexual and has been living together with a man for more than 20 years.

Documentary about the life of Rein Mets, an evangelist and activist of the Living Word, a father of five and a bisexual. Yet, this is not just another biographical documentary - the film also studies Tegemist ei ole puhtalt eluloofilmiga. Film puudutab ka meie lähiajalugu ja inimese otsinguid harmoonia ja tasakaalu leidmisel ning kindlasti ka küsimust sellest, kuidas korraldada oma hinge- ja füüsiline maailm selliselt, et ruumi jääks ka teistele kaasinimestele.
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Burnt Mistakes

Original title in Estonian: Külm on

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Martti Helde

Young man Aggivald is living in suburban boiler-house what is fueled by Books, books without endings. The biggest passion for the boy is to write a new ending for each book. Aggivald doesn't know that his family has a story it's own, story what reach to the soviet time and has no ending either.
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