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Who am I Smiling For?

Original title: Kellele ma naeratan?

2023 | Documentary, | Director: Eeva Mägi

Sometimes you need to be reborn to understand that death is not the end of life. A film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.

Oliver is a 12-year-old boy whose mother, Mari has stage IV cancer, and together they are preparing for her death. Mari tries to show Oliver how to fly around as a spirit, how to talk to her when she’s an angel in the sky or how they will play football together even after she has passed away. At the same time, Mari must fight for her daughter’s custody, to have a chance to see her before she dies. In the midst of it stands Oliver, whose main wish is that he could simply live happily forever together with his mother ...
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Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

2018 | Animation, Puppet, | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt ...
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Portugal

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Lagle

Lauri Lagle's first feature film is profound and smooth like a summer's night. It is a physical progression and a mental journey towards something other than a mere geographical location on a map.

Karina and Martin are in a pleasant relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed way and no small misbehaviour can shake it’s rush. Life is good. Perhaps it's this perfection and frequent patterns that make them finally pose a question - is everything to be expected in life? This is a story about following the yearning of your soul. Longing for something other than the present and having the courage to be deliberately lost. The characters in the film are looking for a place of love and understanding in the world. Their journey is playful, mellow and thoroughly human. It ...
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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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Potato Republic

Original title: Kartuli Wabariik

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kätlin Kaganovitš

Documentary about Tarmo Ladva, president of Potato Republic to be established in Laanemetsa village in Valga county, Estonia, and about the process of putting his expansive ideas into practice.

Artist and event organizer Tarmo Ladva wants to achieve his goal to establish Potato Republic in Laanemetsa village, Taheva parish that is located in a peripheral region of Estonia. Potato Republic would serve as a museum to introduce potato as the symbol of Estonian food and to remember history. His high-flown ideas about creating a bath cinema and heritage theatre, however, get stuck due to financial difficulties and general scepticism. The man full of enthusiasm won't give up and gives it another try.
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Censorship Leftovers

Original title: Nagu kärbeste sumin

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

His nickname is Chimney. He is a chimneysweeper indeed and exceptional one, but also a trained paratrooper and most lately known in Tallinn as a busker at the famous Valli's Bar. During the days of Estonian fight for freedom in 1989 Chimney became an undercover leader of locally famous Night Song Festivals. His camouflage has been so intense that even history books of today can't see Chimney's leading role in the fight for free Estonia. Now it is the time to reveal the truth and rewrite Estonian history once again. Come and meet Chimney - the hidden real hero of ...
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Obsession

Original title (in Estonian): "Haaratus"

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Andrew Bond
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Miriam and the Flood

Original title: Miriam merehädas

2006 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

Miriam, her little brother and the Hen are watching swimming ducks on TV.

Miriam’s parents are not at home. She, her little brother and the Hen are watching swimming ducks on TV. As the Hen becomes jealous, Miriam decides to bathe it in the bathtube. This triggers a dangerous adventure which, luckily, has a happy ending.
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Mare Vint

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anri Rulkov

Mare Vint, an acknowledged graphic and drawing artist, opens up the background of her sensitive artwork related to her personal exhibition "Selected views".

Mare Vint (b. 1942) discovered her artist style, a highly refined way of drawing, already in the year of 1970. Vint has depicted nature and parks with the aesthetic quality and slightly metaphysical moods. The artist regularly exhibits her litographs, serigraphs, works made with indian ink and coloured pencils both in Estonia and abroad. Her works belong to the collections of several art museums all over the world. The documentary depicts Mare Vint before and after the opening of her personal exhibition "Selected views" (2004) when the artist is working with her drawings and commenting on her creative process.
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Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

Original title: Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Sculptor Maire Männik started her sculpture studies in Estonia but during the war she moved to France and her artwork was mostly created in Paris.

Estonian sculptor Maire Männik (1922-2003) started her art studies in Estonia; however, during the war she had to move to France and her artwork was created mainly abroad, in Paris. Filmmaker Rein Raamat has followed the artist working in her studio in Paris and sharing her thoughts. Commentaries by Harri Liivrand, Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar and French art historian Emmanuelle Corcellet-Prévost. The film also serves as a farewell to Marie Männik who passed away in 2003.
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