Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Search results

Advanced search (128)

Loodusfilosoofiline Tartu

2016 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Jaan-Jürgen Klaus
Miriam’s Hen’s Dream

Original title: Miriami kana unistus

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Andres Tenusaar

On a rainy autumn day Father and Little Brother are building a plane, Miriam is watching a picture book about southern countries, Hen is dreaming about flying away to the south – just as the cranes in the autumn sky. When the rain is over everybody goes with Mother to the park, to rake the fallen leaves. Even there Hen is exited about flying to the south, she climbs on top of the birch tree and tries to fly but falls into the pile of leaves... Little Brother proposes his toy plane, Father throws it into the air but even ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Our Home

Original title (in Finnish): "Meite Kodo"

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Daniel Picón, Meelika Lehola

The film follows three female characters from the tiny island of Kihnu with only 346 inhabitants, struggling not to lose their faith in their homeland, which is dying out.

Kihnu is a well-known island among Estonians, partly for its odd yet very interesting traditions, the inhabitants’ sense of strong community, their own dialect which is called Kihnu Keel among other things. A problem that many people are probably not aware of is that Kihnu is facing a situation of very fast decreasing population, which can be a factor of many things like lack of job opportunities or centralization to the bigger cities. This story concentrates on the lives of three women of 3 different generations all affected by the present problem but who still dream of staying in Kihnu. ...
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Out of Internal Worlds

Original title: Siseilmadest väljas

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Helen Unt

A woman and a man go about their business in the same room but intervention is necessary in order for them to get together with each other.

A fly rubs its hands. A man and a woman, inside and outside, balance within them and between them. The fly flies. Snails swing. The fly flies.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Sneakerheads

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristi Prik

The short TV documentary ‘Sneakerheads’ by Kristi Prik gives to sneakerheads the chance to talk about their unusual hobby.

A sneakerhead is a person who collects, trades or admires sneakers as a hobby. The birth of the sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the beginning of 1980’s mostly thanks to basketball, especially Michael Jordan and hip-hop music. Sneakerheading in Estonia is a far more recent event – it has only been around for a decade the most. This journalistic TV documentary will give the viewer an insight to the world of sneakerhead.
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Tee otsing. Robert Kasemägi

2016 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova
The Polar Boy

Original title: Polaarpoiss

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

A boy with two faces meets a girl with two souls.

Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna’s bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jealousy, Mattias accidentally commits a crime ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Three Clay Pots. A Komi Story

Original title: Kolm savipotti

2016 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kristjan Holm

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.

A widow made three clay pots. The pots wanted to help the woman: one brought clothes, the other brought robbers’ loot, and the third brought a hunter who sat down to rest. The woman and the hunter made a home together. They had plenty of money and goods. In the clay pots, they boiled porridge.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
When You Least Expect It

Original title: Õnn tuleb magades

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mart Kivastik

There are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who the other is. Viivi would like to run away and the man is sleeping like a log. Unlike Viivi and Andu themselves, the viewers know both very well. They know that Viivi has the worst day in her life and that Andu is a dweeb, but not completely hopeless; a rather good-hearted man.

Viivi, still on the young side, but lonely, discovers a strange man in her bed one beautiful morning. Panicking, the woman tries to reconstruct the events of the previous day in her head. It appears that it must have been one of the worst days in her life: an aching shoulder, being late for work, a diagnosis by her doctor, and, as a result of it all, an evening in the pub where she realises that you can be as neat and good as you like, but you still need luck… The man who Viivi finds between the sheets in Andres, ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis