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3rd Octave F

Original title: 3. oktavi F

2022 | Short, Feature film | Director: Eeva Mägi

A woman’s voice can silence injustice, lower weapons and stop trains. In opera-western the question is whether Ada can hit the right note to save her brother's and her own life from the vindictive Sheriff.

A daring and stylized opera-western tells the story of a broken family, revenge and standing up against injustice towards women. As Mario, a bit short-fused but righteous outlaw, gets out of prison, his only wish is to get back home to his mother and sister Ada. It’s not long until life drags him into trouble again. Witnessing a woman being attacked, Mario is forced to pull his gun on the perpetrator, leaving the man with just one hand. The Sheriff hears about Mario’s deed and sets off to catch him. The Sheriff couldn’t care less for the woman attacked or the man ...
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Ninja

2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Reinup

Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a life-threatening motorcycle trick in order to set a world record and bring attention to Keity so she could go to the trial motorbike World Championships.

Keity Meier, one of the few female stars of Estonian motor sports, has been dreaming of going to the World Championships for years. In order to raise the necessary funds, Keity and her girlfriend Kristel organise a complicated and life-threatening motorcycle stunt to set a world record and to bring more attention to Keity. Keity has to physically practice with her motorbike for days on a ramp built in the garden of her friends to make sure that the trick is a success and personally oversee the details of construction, safety and the organising of it. Doing the stunt also ...
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The Tour of Dreams

Original title: Unistus Ameerika tuurist

2021 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema, Taavi Arus

When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.

This documentary is a film about bluegrass, gospel and god, in one of the most secular countries in the world. "Robirohi" is not a very well known band in Estonia. Most of their concerts are held in churches and congregations, their soulful music gets little plays on non-christian radio stations. Nearly all band members have felt enlightenment: "It is as if a warm wave of light passes through all your body". All members but one. The band would love to be famous one day – but is gospel the right path to take? They book their dream tour to America, ...
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Soviet Friendsbook

Original title: Ankeet

2020 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

It has been several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to find her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook what was created in their youth with today's reality.

The unifier of the common past of the perestroika generation is the school. Classmates who once lived in very similar conditions, played the same games and shared the most personal thoughts have been able to create very different and varied lives today. It is several decades since graduating from school when Aljona Suržikova decides to look for her classmates in different parts of the world. Her goal is to compare the friendsbook created in their youth with today's reality. The friendsbook is serving a written historical memory function, preserving the beautiful moments and big dreams that were written down during school ...
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The Last Ones

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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Bigger Than Sports

Original title: Suurem kui sport

2019 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kerttu Soans

Uncompromising "Crazy Coach" Arvi Aavik is creating the Estonian women's wrestling team out of a few capable girls.

Former Olympic athlete and female wrestler Epp Mäe's coach Arvi Aavik starts forming the first Estonian female national team where the athletes and coaches are working according to his training plan. Uncompromised and passionate Aavik, once called "A Crazy Coach", does not stop there - he wants to create something bigger than sports. He wants to erase the line between the coach and the athlete, trying to create a human touch.
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Mary and the Seven Dwarfs

Original title: Maria ja seitse pöialpoissi

2018 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Riho Unt

Dreams are like weeds that despite mowing keep on growing.

Having spent her whole life inside the nunnery, an old and dignified nun Maria has determined to fulfill her youth fantasy. The only problem there seems to be her incomplete, almost non-existent memory. Maria is afraid that her youth fantasy might prove to be a sin.
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The Good Shepherd

Original title: Hea Karjane; from the short film collection: Värske veri

2018 | Short, Feature film | Director: Evar Anvelt

Ibrahim is a shepherd whose job is to look after his herd as best as he can. One day he receives a phone call from his brother with a plan he wants to hear nothing about.

Ibrahim is a simple, kind-hearted man whose main source of income is raising sheep. He lives with his family in the Middle Eastern mountains. The last few years have been particularly wretched and illnesses have struck his flock causing many animals to perish. There seems to be no end in sight to these calamities. One day, Ibrahim’s younger brother Omar calls him and in a carefree tone asks to use a building on the edge of their father’s farm for something that Ibrahim does not want to hear anything about...
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Life in the Factory Basement

Original title: Elu kombinaadi keldris

2017 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Triin Ruumet

At the end of the world there is a cafe where we all once will meet. The documentary tells a story of a person, the system that surrounds him and communication between these two parameters.

The story of a person, the system that surrounds him and the communication between these two parameters. The protagonist of the film, an electrician Ago Pettai of a South-Estonian hospital represents a very healthy anarchic lifestyle in the general system and in the medical system, that part of the structure that gives the possibility for that kind of anarchy amid great illness. The film poses a question: What it means to be well and is a healthy mental outlook somehow connected with it all?
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The Man Who Looks Like Me

Original title: Minu näoga onu

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention.
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