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Jungle Law

Original title: Ääremängijad

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Madli Lääne

Three teenagers get caught up in an intense triangle and are taken over by instincts that are out of their control.

Three teenagers meet while hanging out at the seaside. They start to seduce and challenge each other to hide their own insecurities in this intense triangle. The playful provocation leads to humiliation and the inexperienced youngsters are taken over by instincts that are out of their control.
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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Öö

2023 | Feature film, Short | Director: Teresa Väli
Between the Three

Original title: Kolmevahel

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marek Vahula

The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.

The documentary introduces the story of environmental protection of Kunda bay in 1992–1993 when two extension plans for the port of Kunda were impeded – to Letipea in the winter of 1992 and to Toolse in the winter of 1993. And as a final result, the port remained to its historical location.
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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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Let’s Do It!

Original title: Teeme ära!

2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets

In 2007 an Estonian entrepreneur was illuminated by a beautifully simple idea: our planet is full of garbage - let’s start with our own backyard and clean it up! Exhilarated by success, the time seems ripe to accomplish something of true magnitude…
Local Urbanites

Original title: Lokaalsed linlased

2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Uppin

In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.

Is a town planned for cars or people? This question seems to become more acute every day. One such battlefield is the Tallinn Main Street project but similar fights are going on in almost every town in Estonia. In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.
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Sierra

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director:

A boy accidentally turns himself into a car tire.

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
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Time Quartet: After Betelgeuse

Original title: Ajakvartett: Peale Betelgeuset

2022 | Other categories, Archive footage, Experimental | Director: Len Murusalu

A journey through the past and future myths of the dormant Livonian language.

Something has changed. At an unknown point in time, the surface of the oceans have risen and the world has been partially submerged. A second source of light glows in the sky next to the sun. Here and there appear figures from old archived photos, petrified in time. An abstract sense of loss lingers in the air, for something or somebody immeasurably far away. After Betelgeuse is a film about a feeling of homesickness caused by the unwanted demise of one’s home environment whilst travelling simultaneously between past, present and future. Narrated in the dormant Livonian language, and inspired by a ...
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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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