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Lili

Original title: Lili

2008 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?".

There is a mortally wounded young soldier in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find an answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?", is it a memory picture of the first love of passed times or the first intercourse with a prostitute earning her regular income. Lily is not only a distant hero from a song. Every soldier has his own Lily, would it be the first love from school, front prostitute or simply phantasm. But always, however, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate.....
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The Second Coming

Original title of the film: Teine tulemine

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tanel Toom

War drama directed by Tanel Toom is an allegory about life, death and love; also a story about the fate of two brothers in war.

Soldiers are waiting for the enemy's attach in the trench, among them being twin brothers Thomas and Marcus. The foray will end as unexpectedly as it started. An unknown enemy disappears and the whole squad will get killed. Thomas is the only one who survives. Unable to put up with his brother's death, Thomas will start a journey leading out of the war together with his lifeless brother. The journey will become an escape in a dream-like world where the unknown enemy is constantly keeping up with Thomas.
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The Visitor

Original title: Muukalainen

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää

This is the first full-length feature film directed by Finnish filmmaker Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää; the film was his graduation thesis. It is a mysterious story about betrayal, love and fidelity.

A boy lives with his mother in a lonely farmhouse amidst the woods. Now and then he goes to see his father who is in prison and the two of them share a common secret. Their life will change the day when a stranger arrives at their house, carrying a letter from the boy's father and being wounded by a bullet. Through the eyes of the silent boy we see the way life changes, the way spring becomes winter and the way hope develops to betrayal.
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The Dress

Original title: Kleit

2007 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Girlin Bassovskaja

A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them.

A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows a beautiful-exiting life with kitchen utensils? We don't see the woman never intact, though we move along her body, rather along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same. From time to time different insects appear as to laugh over the woman's innocent dreams, just as guzzling and unreliable dreams. They predict the end and death, nobody knows - through guillotine or kitchen knife.
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Põrgupõhja

2006 | Students film, Short | Director: Age Viks
Paradise for Old Men

Original title: Vanameeste paradiis

2005 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ove Musting

The short film tells a story about two old men, city officials, who take action in fighting against illegal fishing. This will change their life forever.

Two elderly men, city officials from the environmental board, are sent to forced retirement. With their active disposition, the two men decide to take action in fighting against illegal fishing. During the boat ride they meet fishermen. However, the fishermen and the surrounding nature turns out to be far more mysterious than the two men first assume. Their boat trip to the fishermen's village will change their life forever.
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The Undertaker

Original title: Surnumatja / The Undertaker

2005 | Feature film, Short | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

Dark comedy directed by Annaleena Piel Linna about a man who hopes to make a fortune with a suicide bureau in a small town somewhere on the outskirts of the world.

Calvin is considering to commit a suicide but at the last moment he will get a better idea - to found a suicide bureau in a snowbound small town somewhere on the outskirts of the world. He hopes to make a fortune with his idea of selling suicides. Naturally, Calvin tries to avoid the suicide plans that are too common. The ideas he offers people for leaving this world are entirely unique and smashing, with the guarantee of making the client famous after death. Such ideas are worth lots of money. Calvin seems to be lucky – all of a ...
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The Table

Original title: Laud

2004 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Jelena Girlin, Mari-Liis Bassovskaja, Urmas Jõemees

Vivat, crescat, floreat vagina!

Roza has given birth to many children, all with different men. The protagonist is Rita, her youngest daughter, whose fate - like her mother's - is to endure the effort and pain of giving birth. How and whether she can cope with this, or the world?
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Having Soul

Original title: Hing sees

2002 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

“Having Soul” is the story of a little boy and his big dream – toy soldiers with souls, who would close their eyes, when dying.

Based on the short story “Living Dolls” by estonian writer Anton Hansen Tammsaare. “Having Soul” is the story of a little boy and his big dream – toy soldiers with souls, who would close their eyes, when dying.
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Names in Marble

Original title: Nimed marmortahvlil

2002 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The debut film by director Elmo Nüganen is based on the novel "Names in Marble" by Albert Kivikas. The film is a patriotic war drama telling the story of schoolboys in the Estonian War of Independence and of the days and nights of these young volunteer fighters. The film is full of dangers, challenges, pain and exaltation, entwined by a beautiful story of young love.

The war drama based on the novel "Names in Marble" by Albert Kivikas has broken all-time box-office record in Estonia, telling the story about schoolboys who have become voluntary soldiers fighting for the freedom of their homeland. It is a catching story about becoming a man, about the first love and the high price of freedom. Will they be awarded with love and fatherland, or will they become just names engraved in marble?
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