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Whitsunday At Tammealuse

Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer. Whitsunday is known in folk memory as an important holiday for country folk and merry spring holiday that has been celebrated in Estonia through the ages to greet the arriving summer. Whitsunday (or Whitsun, Whit) involved many traditional preparatory activities - tidying the home and its surroundings, decorating with birches, going to the sauna. The celebration itself took place at the nearest sacred Grove, where a swing was set up and a bonfire made. ...
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Äralend

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz
1944

Original title: 1944

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, often referred to as the Battle of the European SS. WWII.1944. The bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Men brought out of Siberian labour camps and now returning home. Today 70 years on, the makers of Estonia's biggest ever box-office success ...
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Anto Raukas

2015 | Documentary, Making of | Director:
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Conspiracy

Original title (in Estonian): "Vandenõu"

2015 | Students film, Short, TV Show | Director: Oskar Lehemaa

The story of how people's fear of the unknown can grow into any of the absurd paranoia, during which rational behavior remains sidelined.
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Conversations in Non-existent Space

Original title: Kõnelused olematus ruumis

2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Priit Pääsuke, Mart Taniel

Documentary follows the searches for identity of creative people through experimental and improvisational music.

What is inspiration? Where does it come from and is it possible for it to be consciously evoked? The film speaks about the search for one’s identity through experimental and improvisational creation.
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Culprit

Original title in Estonian: Süüdlane

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Indrek Kaine

The short film by Indrek Kaine, Kalev Smidt, Jan Andresson, Veiko Jaks and Randel Pomber talks about guilt through the eyes of a child.

Indrek is a humble boy, who is a victim of school violence: he is forced to do a prank which leads him to police questioning.
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Elephants don’t forget

Original title (in Estonian): "Elevandid ei unusta"

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristel Muiste

“Elephants don’t forget” is a short documentary film about a young zoo-worker Erko who tis taking care of the elephants. Despite the challenges of working with big animals, Erko has a purpose to ensure the elephants the best life that is possible in that kind of an environment.
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Elo

Original title: Elo

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Helen Takkin

Elo is a stubborn kindergarten child whose sole purpose is to escape the repression of her evil teacher. One day a new teacher Helena appears and Elo’s life changes completely.

Elo hates kindergarten. She does not understand why she has to stay in this prison, while there is a alluring and mysterious life waiting for her outside. Elo comes up with a plan how to escape that place for good. One day however a new and kind teacher Helena comes to work there. Elo falls completely in love with her, but will soon also feel her first heartbreak.
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