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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…
The Heroes of TLU

Original title in Estonian: TLÜ Kangelased

2021 | Students film, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Janek Maantoa

The Heroes of TLU is about a concerned and stressed businessman, who searches for solutions from a mysterious comic book.

The Heroes of TLU is about a concerned and stressed businessman who receives a mysterious package that contains a comic book. In the comic book, our businessman discovers the solution to his problem. He calls a mysterious number that comes with the package and learns that heroes are real after all and ready to help.
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Eesti nafta

2020 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

A Mother and daughter, searching for an answer to what could be the fuel for life in a small country Estonia. One of them grows Nettle, the other one is a famous youtuber.

Margit has left her life, career and apartment in the big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow Nettle. She believes that there is a power in this plant, that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched Nettle and it’s qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an enterpreneur?Margit’s daughter Nele, a well known youtuber, will try to help out. So in ...
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War on Boring Walls

Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

A small Tartu start-up applies technology to win back the urban space polluted by advertising. SprayPrinter is not an ordinary start-up. It’s motley crew resembles a wild rock-n-roll band. They don’t play by the rules and this has been key to their success in Estonia and in Silicon Valley. But splitting their life between two continents isn’t easy, and their dreams and ambitions soon collide with the reality of everyday life.
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Constructing Albert

Title in Estonian: Alberti leiutamine

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Laura Collado, Jim Loomis

Albert Adrià has all the ingredients of a creative genius. Playing a key role in the creation of elBulli, the greatest restaurant in history, wasn't enough. Escaping the shadow of his famous brother Ferran, Albert is seeking his own success.

The most important culinary revolution of modern times took place at elBulli, a restaurant in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. Ferran Adrià is the famous maestro people know, but behind elBulli’s success was also a hidden genius: Albert, Ferran’s younger brother. Four years after closing of elBulli, Albert has decided to become master of his own world, building 5 unique restaurants in the centre of Barcelona. Enigma, the jewel in the crown of this gastronomic empire, will prove to be his greatest hurdle. Will Albert escape the shadow of his famous brother and enter the Pantheon of great ...
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Südametunnistus mobiiltelefonis

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher
Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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Highway Patrol Officer

Original title: Kiirtee kordnik

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld, Meelis Muhu

Motorcycle policemen are observing the drivers exceeding the speed limit on the roads.

The police officer on a motorbike has to catch the speeders on Estonian highways. In the name of road safety, motorbike policemen risk every day their lives - it is not the question whether a biker falls but when he falls. Toomas Kivilo is one of the few motorbike patrol officers who has passed a special training. Every spring, he steps out from his safe patrol car in order to take out the powerful motorbike and to speed into the wild hell of highway traffic.
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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How I Saved Africa

Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

Siisi is an active and attractive young woman who'd have enough energy to send Estonia's first spaceship to Mars. But instead, the urge to make the world a better place sends Siisi far away to Uganda, where she plans to open a café with the help of donators to offer work to the local young handicapped people. The start of the project is dashing but as the times goes by the more Siisi's idealism confronts the local working culture, sexual prejudice and economic inevitability because in a country that is one of the biggest coffee bean exporters only 0.6 percent ...
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