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India - On its Way Up

Title in Estonian: India - teel tippu

2016 | Documentary | Director: Gert Kark

Documentary introducing the accomplishments of the development activities of information technology in India through which the country attempts to get rid of poverty.

India is still a home country for one-third poorest people in the world. However, through the development of information technology the country attempts to get rid of this status. The upheaval that has taken place during the past twenty years is explained to the viewers by the famous IT-gurus in India. These guys have founded businesses in India such as Infosys and Genpact. According to the author Eeva Esse, the main message of the film is that contributing to the development of information technology is always a good idea and information technology can largely improve the lives of those who ...
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Lake Bodom

Original title: Bodom

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Taneli Mustonen

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. Reconstructing a legendary campsite murder turns deadly when the girls decide to rewrite history.

Every camper's worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent. As the years passed and the case grew cold, the unsolved mystery turned into an urban legend, a creepy campfire story passed from generation to generation. Now, a group of teenagers arrives at the same campsite, hoping to solve the murder by reconstructing it minute by minute. As night falls, turns out not all of them are there to play... Tonight... it's girls against boys. Let the killing games begin.
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Land of Soul

Original title: Hingemaa

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne, Erik Norkroos

The oldest, almost century-old Estonian church in America is about to fall apart.

In a remote countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. At the end of this alley there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard that has probably a dozen graves next to it. This building with a broken roof and a leaning tower is the first church in America built by Estonians. It was built a hundred years ago and is desperately in need of repair. In Peedu, Tartumaa County, Tõnis Mägi receives an unexpected phone call. Jaan Karukäpp is calling from Chicago. He with other local Estonians is ...
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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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Loodusfilosoofiline Tartu

2016 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Jaan-Jürgen Klaus
Mausoleum

Original title: Mausoleum

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Lauri Randla

Tragicomical short film directed by Lauri Randla about pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who embalmed Lenin's body and gained victory over death.

Grotesque and tragicomical story about the Soviet pathologist Alexei Abrikosov who eviscerated Lenin's dead body in 1924 and performed its initial enbalming. Since then, Abrikosov's and his assistant Sasha's lives have been related to taking care of Lenin's body. It is the year 1936, the era of Stalin's night-time repressions. No one can sleep, there are arrestments and executions. No one is protected from the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), especially the élite of USSR. And then, right before the 1st of May, a fly gets into the Lenin's sarcophagus. Before the visit of the great leader Stalin, Abrikosov ...
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Meeskond

2016 | Documentary | Director: Hindrek Maasik
My Iranian Grandmother

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariam Afrahi

A journey to the life of Miriam' s 80-year-old Grandmother, who lives alone in a small town in Iran. A woman in a mans’ world.

“My Iranian Grandmother” is a documentary about filmmaker's grandmother who lives alone in a small town in central Iran. At the age of 80, Parvin is not your typical Iranian woman in a country filled with patriarchy.
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Patarei ärkab ellu

2016 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg
Sacrifice

Original title (in Estonian): "Ohverdus"

2016 | Students film, Short | Director: Oksana Nakorchevska

A fairytal about father and daughter, who moved to the countryside.

A fairytale, where Father and Daughter, who moved to countryside are visited by a forest god who wants the Daughter to be his wife.
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