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L is for Love

Original title: A nagu armastus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Spungin

When Indrek's wife says that she is not happy with the marriage and something needs to change, Indrek must find a way to save the marriage.

The author of the film, Indrek Spungin, has reached the port of love and peace, he is married and the father of several children, everything seems beautiful, but one day his wife tells him that if nothing changes, then love and marriage will soon be over. Indrek is confused. He takes his friend Taavi with the camera and goes to find out what love really is. He questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as love and marriage. The topic is broadened by three protagonists with a personal touch: Jarmo, who has just fallen in love ...
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Mare Tralla

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

The film is about a strong Estonian woman who can handle everything and has experienced both traditional family life and much more.

Who's afraid of Mare Tralla? And is it necessary to fear her at all? Our film is about a strong Estonian woman who has always been a mother of two children, a married woman, a lecturer, a professor, and a fighter for minorities, who is also engaged in an artist's career.
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Burning porcelain

Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

A young woman in a wheelchair, Eleonor, returns to her childhood home. The objects in her room remind her of the time before the accident. She tries to get her old self back but is forced to face the truth - the scars and the wheelchair are a part of her new self.
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Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov
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Three Jewels

Original title in Estonian: Kolm juveeli

2016 | TV Show, Documentary, Anthropological, Students film | Director: Gerli Nõmm

Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.

Documentary film „Three Jewels“ tells the story about hopes and dreams of three Cambodian women of different generations. They are all connected by the same passion – the passion for traditional Khmer dharma chanting/Smot chanting. Our main character Srey Oun is a 35-year-old woman who has stayed single, and given up her dream of studying traditional music in Phnom Penh, to stay with her old parents and help them with backbreaking household works. 25 year-old Srey Pov, on the other hand, has it all – she is a famous Smot chanter and owns a business that enables her to support ...
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Elizabeth`s Playground

Original title: Elizabethi mänguväljak

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maris Kerge, Erik Norkroos

Little Elizabeth is traveling around in a miraculous world of ballet.

Four-year-old Elizabeth was born into the family of ballet dancers, so she has spent majority of her life with her parents at the ballet theatre. She knows every member of the ballet company at the Estonian National Ballet and has seen every ballet performance for numerous times. Elizabeth loves, even adores ballet. Would she be different if she were raised in a different environment? The documentary shows little Elizabeth's journey through the fairy-tale like world of theatre where the real world meets the illusory one and fairy-tales come true.
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Cherry Tobacco

Original title: Kirsitubakas

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Katrin Maimik, Andres Maimik

Love can strike you like a bolt from the blue – when you’re least prepared for it.

Cherry Tobacco is a youthful relationship drama about falling in love for the first time. For psychological reasons and because of societal norms, making decisions becomes much more difficult – especially if the feelings that are awakening are directed towards an older man. Forbidden love is a lot like war – there are no right choices.
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Man with the Top Hat

Original title: Mees torukübaraga

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik

Portrait documentary by Riho Västrik about Valeri Kirss, organizer of Estonian beauty contests, at the height of his glory days.

Portrait documentary about Valeri Kirss - the organizer of beauty contests, a stubborn man who restored the tradition of beauty contests and who managed to hold around ten annual beauty contests in Estonia since 1992. Filmmakers follow the enthusiastic and hyperactive man during the times he was at the peak of his glory when Estonians knew exactly who the last Miss Estonia was. The recorded materials that have been unused for more than a decade have acquired extra value for making the colourful personal story as well as a funny retrospective describing the social life in Estonia during the turn ...
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The Charikar Girls

Original title: Charikari tüdrukud

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.

End of October 2010 in Afghanistan. The children of the poorest families study In the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province. In most families, children are raised by mothers since their father are either killed or crippled during the long period of war. Filmmakers ask the girls to tell about the most beautiful and most difficult stories of their lives in order to reflect them in the film. During two weeks, the girls talk about their lives and invite the filmmakers to their homes to listen to the stories told by their mothers as well. The stories by ...
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Old fish

Original title: Vanad kalad

2010 | Documentary | Director: Triinu Ojalo, Katrin Maimik