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Backstage Bardo

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maros Pulscak

Short Documentary that follows morgue workers’ daily life.

Backstage Bardo follows the daily life of morgue workers as they navigate through the complexities of dealing with death and uncover the humanity behind this often-misunderstood profession.
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Meatballs and Dumplings

Original title: Frikadellid ja pelmeenid

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Heiki Ernits, Meelis Arulepp

The parable about human relations, differences and misunderstandings.

Meatballs live in their box in the refrigerator, and anything outside of that is forbidden and terrifying. In their opinion, the main threat in the outside world are mythical dumplings that no one has ever seen. But it just so happens that the two meatballs embark on an adventurous voyage of discovery outside the box. By the end of the journey, the world has changed not only for them, but also for all the other meatballs living in the box. And even better.
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Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life

Original title: Pilt, mis öösel liigutas

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside!

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside! All seems to be going well until the innkeeper's dead grandfather tries to eat him.
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Outside Disability

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hendra Raud

There’s a divide present between able bodied and physically disabled people. Their ability to work, love, study, and live is too often defined simply by their condition. With our project, we want to convey our audience the reality of this community’s experience outside of their disability.

Physically disabled people navigating personal relationships and the effects of accessibility in society. The film is based on real interviews our team conducted with PDP, where we asked them about their experiences in dating, friendships, and social perception.
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The Sleeping Beast

Original title: Tagurpidi torn

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

A gang of five children – two boys and three girls – spends their summer in an abandoned factory complex. The gang leader, Kristjan (10), would really rather hang out with his older brother’s friends but still enjoys the games and tests of courage with his peers. One day, factory owner Teet bans them from going to the complex for safety reasons. Kristjan, Ariel, Laura, Mia-Margot and Siim decide to ignore the ban and return to the complex secretly. One day Elmar catches the wandering Lisandra, Loore's 3-year-old sister, and locks her in his guard booth for her own safety. ...
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Estonian Funeral

Original title: Eesti matus

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

Based on one of the longest running plays in Estonian theatre, “Eesti matus“ by Andrus Kivirähk, this is a comedy full of hilarious characters and unexpected situations where Estonian national-conservative view of the world clashes with more liberal European values of the younger generation.

Andres, a young man who sells retirement insurances in shopping centres, meets a dark-skinned girl and falls in love.Lee, the newfound girl of his dreams called, is an open-minded world traveler who does not understand the „workaholism“ of Estonians nor the need to own land at all costs. With naive dreams, the young lovers want to go travel the world in search of happiness, but they have to take an unexpected small detour first. Andres has to go to his grandfather's funeral and unsuspectingly takes Lee with him. At the funeral, a colorful company of friends, family and neighbours have gathered ...
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Grandma, meet Mary

Original title: Vanaema, saa tuttavaks

2021 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kaire Russ

The middle-aged perfectionist Virve has done everything so that her mothers 80 birthday party would be traditionally perfect. But with no warning her niece brings a surprise guest - her same sex partner.

At the center of the short film we find an ordinary family struggling with generational differences about what it means to love and live a full life. The main character Virve (Tiina Mälberg), a middle-aged perfectionist, has gone to great lengths to make sure her mother’s (Ines Aru) jubilee would be a perfectly traditional family celebration. Her plans are interrupted by her niece Silvia (Grete Konksi) who arrives to the party with her same-sex partner Mary (Jaanika Arum). Grandma and grandpa are clueless and welcome Mary to the table because they remember her as a childhood friend of their granddaughter. The ...
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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Funny Family

Originalt title (in Russian): Веселая cемейка

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Pogosov

The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.

Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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True

Original title: Omad

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Marta Pulk

In this cold world one innocent joke is enough to release an avalanche of an argument.

In a transforming country between old and new, an old man drops an inappropriate joke in the doctors waiting room. This releases an avalanche of debate between five perfect strangers, full of unexpected twists. With a dark sense of humour the movie deals with living in a changing world where absolutely no one gets to feel comfortable.
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