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The Most Beautiful Day

Title in Estonian: Kõige ilusam päev

2015 | Feature film, Short | Director: Einar Kuusk

A young man named Sherman survives the apocalypse in a Soviet-style alternate reality and when trying to find his place outside an isolated city, gets stuck in an underground bunker.

A young adventurer named Sherman is walking around in a desolated soviet-style world where nature has taken over, moving away from an isolated city and out into the wild. He finds the curious entrance to an underground bunker as a windstorm brews behind him and, after doubting for a moment, proceeds to open the door and enter into the unknown. He soon realizes it was a mistake however, as the wind seemingly pushes the door to slam shut behind him and traps him completely from the outside world. With no help from his holographic AI wristwatch, he explores the bunker ...
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To Light

Original title (in Estonian): Valguseks/Valguseni/Valgusena

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Nora Särak

“TO LIGHT” is a short documentary film made as a graduation work by Nora Särak for MA in Directing Documentary department of the Baltic Film and Media School. It was produced in 2015 by the Baltic Film and Media School. Using the poetic, observational and experimental style the film portrays a relationship between the mother Linda Kallas and the son Mart Kallas who live alone without any friends and neighbours, still looking for the light and not giving up in their own strange way.

A poetic film about a mother and son who decided to stay behind when the Estonian town Pechora became the Russian town Pechora. After 70 years there is hardly anything Estonian left in the town. Linda and Mart Kallas try to maintain contact with their homeland but this is no cure for loneliness.
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Unt´s hour

Original title: Unditund

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed ...
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Wedding Game

Original title: Pulmamäng

2015 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Andres Tenusaar, Malle Valli, Marili Sokk

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale.

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale which uses different handicraft and animation techniques and has so many authors that it could be considered folkloric itself.
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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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About film: Tõnu Virve

Original title (in Estonian): "Filmist: Tõnu Virve"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Rebeka Rummel

How did one of the best Estonian sci-fi films get made during the Soviet time? Was the censorship bearable? Film artist and director, Tõnu Virve has come to BFM Film pavilion to talk about the making of different films and working with well-known Estonian directors. What kind of partnership has brought Virve to one of the film composers, Sven Grünberg? How does Virve perceive the essence of a female director? During the interview, it becomes clear what lies behind the charismatic artist Tõnu Virve - it is an unmeasurable passion towards cinema.
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About movie and life

Original title (in Estonian): "Filmist ja elust"

2015 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Olari Oja

This interview is about estonian director Rasmus Merivoo.
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Alicia

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mariliis Kundla

An up-and-coming figure skater Alicia practices hard to become one of the top Estonian athletes, yet, the 15-year-old girl is still unsure and waits to see what the future brings.
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Anagama

2015 | Documentary | Director: Krista Jutt
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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