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Sander's Documentary

Original title: Sanderidokumentaalfilm

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.

Stand-up comedy seems like an easy thing to do - you get on stage, tell funny stories for an hour and also swear a little. Sander Õigus has been doing stand-up for over ten years, let's see how the truth becomes the truth and a joke becomes a joke.
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Vertical Money

Original title: Vara küps

2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Martti Helde

Where have the Estonian forests gone?

The documentary is a nature catastrophe film that made scandalous news even before it’s release in Estonia. Shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia the film opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The film also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war. The same kind of war that's being held across the globe.
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Gori The Caricaturist

Original title: Gorikaturist

2023 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Meelis Arulepp

A captivating historical documentary with plenty of animation about the destiny of a popular Estonian caricaturist Gori (1894 - 1944) between the two World Wars when total powers leave less and less choices to the talented artist.

This film is an interweaving of documentary narrative and animation. The first, based on historical sources, conveys Gori's biography, world events, and mediates the press and political life of the republican time. It moves along historical facts, is initially easy and fun, and in the end cruel and ruthless. Since there are no living witnesses from this era, nor are there biographers of Gori, the direct sources are photographs, old film clips, newspaper articles, sound recordings, letters and drawings. These are supported by historians and experts with their knowledge of life between the wars, the modernisation of Estonian society, the ...
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Kanamaski

2023 | Animation, Other categories | Director: Sveta Bogomolova, Urmas Nimetu

A chicken uses the pandemic time to learn to read.

A 60-seconds animation about an Estonian chicken who uses COVID lockdown to learn to read. Soon after she turns the whole coop into a mess.
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L is for Love

Original title: A nagu armastus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Spungin

When Indrek's wife says that she is not happy with the marriage and something needs to change, Indrek must find a way to save the marriage.

The author of the film, Indrek Spungin, has reached the port of love and peace, he is married and the father of several children, everything seems beautiful, but one day his wife tells him that if nothing changes, then love and marriage will soon be over. Indrek is confused. He takes his friend Taavi with the camera and goes to find out what love really is. He questions representatives from a variety of social brackets on topics such as love and marriage. The topic is broadened by three protagonists with a personal touch: Jarmo, who has just fallen in love ...
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Legends of Winding Roads

Original title: Kurvilise tee legendid

2023 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

Several Estonians rally crews raced in the USSR team in the 80s. Every driver's dream was to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages.

One of the golden decades of 100-year-old Estonian autosport was the 80s. Estonians were such great rally drivers that several of our crews raced in the USSR team every season. The status of a member of the Soviet Union team was the highest peak, and it was every driver's dream to make it to the team because it was the door behind the Iron Curtain. The rally legends have many untold stories about life as top rally drivers in the absurd Soviet system and on the world's rally stages. They drove a Lada VFTS with FIA Group B homologation, which ...
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Lynx Man

Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to ...
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Miisufy

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Liisi Grünberg

Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, the film observes the world through the eyes of digital pets.

Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, the film observes the world through the eyes of digital pets.
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Operation LARP

Original title: Operatsioon LARP

2023 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mattias Mälk

A vengeful huntress is searching for her husband's lover in a LARP camp. In the same forest, the military is searching for their lost missile.

After a clash with a flock of ducks, the military loses its missile into a thick forest. On the outskirts of the same forest, a woodsman and his lover Vicky are caught redhanded by the local huntress Selma. Vicky runs naked into the forest with the vengeful huntress hot on her heels. Fortunately, an ongoing LARP camp provides a hideout for Vicky who tries to blend in. Growing tired of the larper's capture-the-torch games and believing the danger is over, Vicky heads back to the woodsman's house. To her horror, she finds Selma digging a pit for his remains. Now ...
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Perplexion

Original title: Meelepett

2023 | Other categories | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

1 minute short follows a driver to the car wash, where an ordinary occurrence becomes quite a mind-boggling experience.

1 minute short follows a driver to the car wash, where an ordinary occurrence becomes quite a mind-boggling experience.
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