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In the Morning

Original title in Estonian: Hommikul

2022 | Students film, Short | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

Poet and director Eik Erik Sikk’s short fiction film tells a grotesque story about our fear of living aimlessly.

In the middle of the sterile silence of an early morning, advertisement company employee Juhan struggles to spend the last two hours of his life purposefully, trying to find that something which he really wants to do. Unfortunately, the waking world does everything to mislead him from this path. To his surprise, instead of enjoying life or discovering eternal truths, he finds himself writing slogans for a life insurance and quarreling with his techno music enthusiast neighbor.
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Valgus ei saagi vanaks

2022 | Other categories | Director: Heilika Pikkov
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In Bed With A Writer

Original title: Kirjanikuga voodis

2019 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi
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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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Scandinavian Silence

Original title: Skandinaavia vaikus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Martti Helde

We never dreamt of a good life. We dreamt of a normal life.

Film in three parts, two characters and one obsession: to prevent the past from taking over... Psychological drama with the elements of thriller tells about the reuniting of two characters. Through the winter landscape, they take a journey together that open up the reasons of a violent event that happened years ago. Unsolved past leads the characters to make a choice that will define their future.
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies

Original title: Tõnu Kõrvits. Lageda laulud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film about a composer Tõnu Kõrvits, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music.

Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions ...
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Woman and the Glacier

Original title in Lithuanian: Moteris ir ledinas

2016 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Audrius Stonys

A story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier.

The Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tien Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and grey cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have ...
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The Great Painter

Original title: Suur maalritöö

2013 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Aina Järvine, Meelis Arulepp

Grey world makes people sombre. World full of colours makes people irritated. What is a poor Painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd?

Grey world makes people sombre. World full of colours makes people irritated. What is a poor Painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd? Long-long time ago when the world was created it was grey. People got tired of their ashen realm and demanded a change. Luckily for them a Painter arrived happy to add colours to this drab world. Soon people tired from all the colours and demanded Painter to stop. So Painter created white colour and covered the world with white. Leaving people to admire this new colour Painter took his leave.
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The Pearlman

Original title: Pärlimees

2006 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.

A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
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