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Four Stones

Original title: Neli kivi

2021 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Francesco Rosso

I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and his fellas to cope with their miseries. A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city evolves around looping patterns, coincidences and unavoidable consequences.Sublime sounds and a delicate system of symbols trace the path for the monk and ...
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Chasing Unicorns

Original title: Ükssarvik

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.

Based on true stories, this is comedy-drama about a female founder trying to make it in a male-dominated tech world. Õie, an accountant from a small town accidentally stumbles into the tech scene of her home-country Estonia — a place where startups are a “national sport” and almost everyone has one. She is joined by a serial failure Tõnu, who is always trying one more time. Fast-paced and fun movie, based on true stories of startup founders, gives an authentic picture of the highs and lows of the crazy tech world, from Estonia to Silicon Valley — and back.
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Life as in Paradise

Original title (in Estonian): "Elu nagu paradiisis"

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Penjam
Sirens

Original title in Estonian: Sireenid

2013 | Exercises (Fiction), Students film | Director: Kaur Kokk

"Sirens" follows Alexander - an ordinary-looking banking-accountant, with a hidden dark secret. Alexander is an adrenaline junkie. Every night he drives around town, looking for ambulances or police cars with their sirens on. He follows them to accident-sites. This is his game, disaster is his prey. One night the game turns against him.
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Brother

Original title: Vasha

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Hannu Salonen

The suspense drama directed by Hannu Salonen tells about loyalty and betrayal, revenge and forgiveness, and about the process of becoming a grown up man in a violent world.

Toomas is a 16-year-old boy full of energy from Tallinn. He has left school and wants to become an agent; he is already known as a snatcher by police officers. As a result of a car explosion, Tom gets hospitalized and meets a Chechen guy Artur who has lost his family during the war. Artur is an uncommunicative and austere man. As the police firmly believes that Artur is in touch with Estonian mafia, Tom helps him to escape, even if Artur doesn't want to get the boy involved. Despite the fact Tom follows Artur everywhere. Gradually, the dark shades ...
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Licence Plates of Participants in ESTO 1992

Original title: ESTO 1992 osalejate autonumbrid

1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Samples of licence plates of the cars belonging to Estonians, filmed during ESTO 1992.

Worldwide Estonian Days were held in New York City on July 4-11, 1992. The film has recorded licence plates of Estonians' cars in a parking lot. Licence plates of cars from various states and provinces of Canada. The ones of United States carry special slogans characteristic to every state, for instance "Delaware - The First State", "Ohio - Birthplace of Aviation", "North Carolina - First in Flight", "Florida - Sunshine State", "Indiana - The Crossroads of America". Some vehicles have plates with the marking "EST" and the sticker of Estonian national flag.
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Garage

Title in Estonian: Garaaž

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Toomas Lepp

Documentary about the lack of garages at the end of 1980s.

The increasing number of cars causes the lack of garages. The documentary studies problems related to garage construction, especially in Tartu. Comments by Rein Kams, head of department of the executive committee in Tartu; jurist Silvi Lill; Rein Metsnik, professor of the institute of information; Andres Leesment, head of department of the state construction committee; Raal Kivi, the chief architect of Tartu; Valdur Seesmaa, head of the construction service government in Tartu; Jüri Alakivi, head of the construction trust in Tartu; Härm Ruuse, chairman of a garage cooperative in Tallinn.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu