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The Fencer

Original title: Miekkailija

2015 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Klaus Härö

Klaus Härö’s The Fencer is a touching drama about a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. The Finnish entry for the Oscars 2016, Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1952 a young fencing champion Endel arrives in a small town Haapsalu to work as a physical training teacher. In spite of the opposition of the principal of the school, Endel manages to get a permit to teach fencing for children. Slowly it becomes a therapy for the children as well as the teacher himself – a way to deal with everyday grim. The defeated principal is holding a grudge and starts to investigate, why did the champion of the Soviet Union really come to a small town. “The Fencer” is partly based on true life events of an Estonian sportsman ...
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Love Is Blind

Original title: Kertu

2013 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilmar Raag

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.
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Off to Leipzig

Original title in Estonian: Leipzigisse

2011 | Short, Students film | Director: Hardi Keerutaja

The short film by film student Hardi Keerutaja is a horror story about a young man who has forgotten why he is doing something.

The beginning of the 19th century. A young self-centred medical student on his first visit stumbles upon a strange girl, who instead of treatment needs rescuing from her family.
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

Original title: Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 etüüdi piltides

2010 | Portrait, Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film portrait by Marianne Kõrver about Estonian renowned composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

What does it really mean to be a composer? How is a musical work born? How do the first shivers of a thought and a graphical image turn into the first bars and further to a whole piece? What is a composer‘s responsibility towards his audience? The documentary observes different sides of being a composer – from writing a piece in the solitude of the woods of Hirmuste in the island Hiiumaa to orchestral rehearsals in cooperation with acclaimed conductors Paavo Järvi and Anu Tali, the travels and presentations in different parts of the world – Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and, naturally, ...
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Saime kokku Solenzaras

2010 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Silent Surrender

Original title: Ma elasin Eesti Vabariigis

2010 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Documentary by Liina Triškina about the year of 1939 that was fateful for the republic of Estonia. The film studies the subjects of freedom and critical situations, doings and undoings.

What does it feel to live in the turbulent times as a ten-year-old, in the country that one day thrives and the next day will disappear from the world map? The pivotal times of the year 1939 both for Estonia and the whole world changed history. The filmmakers examine the events side by side with the memories of the children of the era. Family photos, newspaper cuts, dramatic archival excerpts, memories of elderly people who used to be children at that time - all of this reflect the tragic events of 1939 and the silent destruction of the Republic of ...
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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Pimedad aknad

2008 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask
Behind the Door

Original title: Ukse taga

2005 | Short, Feature film | Director: Andrus Tuisk

Short film directed by Andrus Tuisk about two young women who struggle with their own fear and a man covered with blood.

Two young women arrive at a solitary countryhouse to spend a weekend. However, the weekend won't turn out as planned but becomes a true nightmare when a strange man dressed in black emerges from darkness. He lures around the house and tries to get in. Horrified young women try to protect themselves no matter what.
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An Invitation to the Eternal City

Original title: Kutse igavesse linna

2003 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

An hour with the amazingly multifaceted Einar Laigna, who clearly and emphatically discusses life’s basic values with the viewer, at a time when ethics tend to be lost from our lives. And thus, the message that he sends to Estonians and other people who love their land is that today is more important than ever before.

Einar Laigna (1937) is a multifaceted man with an aristocratic attitude. He can be called a philosopher, a cultural historian, a theologian, a military historian, a soldier and a blacksmith. Laigna sincerely talks about himself and his development as a personality. His comprehensive monologue expresses self-confidence and total self-assurance. As the chief inspector of Estonian defence army, Laigna positions himself between the attitudes of a soldier, a priest, a philosopher, a wizard, a king and an artisan while defining the world and himself.
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