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You are not cruel

Original title in Latvian: Tu neesi nežēlīgs

2023 | Students film, Music video | Director: Alise Linde

A sadomasochistic story about a dysfunctional, possibly abusive relationship.

A sadomasochistic story about a dysfunctional, possibly abusive relationship. The woman from whose perspective the lyrics are written, is describing how her man hurts her, but despite that she keeps constantly praising him. Director wants to approach this topic from a symbolic point of view - to make a stylistic, unnerving yet alluring visual representation of the inside of the protagonist’s mind.
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Mouth Problems

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Olli Niemi

Absurd comedy about a man trying to solve his marital problems.

Hans is an Estonian man who is having Marital problems in the bedroom with his wife. One day his attempt to improve his bedroom skills with yoga, he suddenly has the mouth of a Finnish man in the back of his head and the mouth just so happens to belong to the same man whom Hans’ wife tried open marriage with. They need to set aside their differences and perform a dangerous ritual to return the mouth to its rightful owner.
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Prelude to Emptiness

Original title in Estonian: Prelüüd tühjusele

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Vivian Ruumet

The film is about a dysfunctional couple Rain and Deelia whose life goals and choices are moving towards different directions.

The story takes place during a 24-hour time frame marking Deelia’s 30th birthday where Rain reveals to her friends that they are expecting a baby. Rain plans to surprise Deelia with a birthday picnic in a newly bought house but things don’t go accordingly. Rain spends his night alone in an empty suburban house while Deelia is escaping reality, partying with her lover and friends. In the morning when the sense of responsibility hits, Deelia is taken to the house in the suburbs, where she is forced to face her problems.
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The Limits of Consent

Original title in Estonian: Läheduse raamid

2022 | Students film | Director: Michael Keerdo-Dawson

An interactive psychological drama with a branching narrative which leads to nine endings.

Anna is a high-tech pick-up artist who helps awkward men seduce lonely women in high-class bars on cold winter evenings in Tallinn. She can juggle sex and love like a pro and finds the right words to manipulate everyone into doing exactly what she wants (or agreeing to her wishes). But Anna's own love life is far from perfect.
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Blue

Original title: Sinine

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tõnis Pill

When two strangers’ paths cross after a car accident, the woman hijacks the situation and gets into the man’s car, demanding that he take her away from the scene. As the man tries to find a way out of the situation, fragments from the woman’s past start painting a picture of the tragic events that happened to her.

When a man rushing to work hits a woman in a hospital gown with his car, she hijacks the situation and gets into his car, demanding that he take her away from there. Once the man recovers from what happened, he tries to convince the injured woman to get treated at the hospital but she refuses the help. The band around the woman’s wrist shows that she ran away from the maternity ward and the man assumes she abandoned her newborn child. At this, the man’s attitude changes drastically and he decides to ignore the woman’s request. But when her ...
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County Court

Original title: Maakohus

2020 | Feature film, Short | Director: Eeva Mägi

When love has become revenge and a little child has left in the middle of it. When love has become revenge and a little child has left in the middle of it.

A short film by Eeva Mägi is packed with absurdity and tells a rather conventional story in a rather unconventional way. The film reflects a court drama where a mother and a father, two ex-spouses, fight over the custody of their 5-year old son in court. The whole court process takes place in the middle of a grain field and on that field the courtroom has no boundaries much like the mother and father whose actual goal is to exact vengeance on each other with no regard to the means used.
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Lockdown

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Niina Rostovtseva

A young couple is experiencing a relationship crisis in the period of self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which culminates with unexpected confessions during an online game.

A young couple experiences difficulties in their relationship because of the self-isolation during the spread of the coronavirus disease around the world. After an unsuccessful haircut from his wife, the main character loses his temper and shows the first signs of domestic violence. In order to unwind in difficult times, the couple’s friends offer to make an online video call party, during which they agree to play the "Truth or Dare" game. However, no one could predict which secrets will emerge during the game.
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Look what you made me do

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Psychological drama about abusive relationships. Ingmar is a narcissist who can't cope being abandoned by his girlfriend. Unable to stand alone he goes out to hunt another victim and repeats the cycle of emotional abuse to feed his need for validation but this time thing will go wrong.

Ingmar is a narcissist with relationship issues and repeatedly manipulates and emotionally abuses his partners creating a cyclical panern of behavior. Ingmar seeks anention, control, admiration and when he fails to obtain his goal he creates a chaos around him puong himself again as the centre of anention. His misbehavior leads him to be ignored and abandoned, which is his deepest fear.
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Will you please be quiet, please

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Prem Jyothis, Tul Paloma Rodriguez

The dance drama tells the story of a relationship and the need for individual space.

A couple, who are falling out of love, vigorously address their differences and, the suffocation from co-existing.
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An Exchange

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Noah Ambrose

A couple argues about leaving their vacation cabin until they discover it might be too late.

It is a quiet night in the woods and Tuuli is rethinking her decision to bring her partner, Kaspar, to the family cabin for the week. As she tries to get him to leave Kaspar reveals that he has discovered a secret she has been keeping from him. Before the couple can finish their discussion, a strange drumming begins outside and the cabin is surrounded by hooded torch-bearing strangers. Things go from bizarre to crazy as the strangers begin slapping the windows and Tuuli starts having a seizure. Then as suddenly as it began, the slapping stops and the strangers ...
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