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The Missile

Original title (in Finnish): Ohjus

2024 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Miia Tervo

Christmas is-a-jingling to Lapland in 1984. Niina (28), a single mother drifts into the middle of an international missile crisis in Inari when the Soviet Union shoots a missile across the Finnish border. A drama-comedy of personal and national borders and boundaries

Finnish Lapland, 1984. Niina, is a single mother of two children . After an absurd jumble of events, Niina ends up as an archiver in the local newspaper Niina hears an enormous bang from the sky – the radio says that the Soviet Union has shot a missile across the Finnish border to Inari: soon the whole village is filled with reporters from all over the world. Niina knows the area and its people, so she is drawn into the investigation of the missile incident and the threat of nuclear war. Niina meets Kai, a fighter pilot who knows ...
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Collector

Original title: Koguja

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

Documentary directed by Mati Põldre tells about Olaf Esna - a bibliophile and antiquary in Pärnu.

Olaf Esna is an ardent book lover and keen on his home town Pärnu. He knows local history and people in detail. During the last decades Esna has been running a second-hand book shop. But he is not a regular salesman. Olaf Esna's passion is to collect and to deliver his valuable stuff to the right people. Many come around just for advice but some find hidden treasures, may it be ghost stories as a word of mouth or old time newspaper serials from the shelf. Even a known world traveler would enter as a pilgrim. In 2011 Olaf Esna was awarded Order of the White Star 5th ...
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For whom the pulse monitor watch tolls

Original title: Kellele lüüakse pulsikella

2014 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Keil

For men in their golden mid-age years recreational sport has become an obsession - instead of fleeing from death their madness might bring them directly to the deathtrap.

Recently, the number of those involved in recreational sport has dramatically grown. The love for sports among the middle-aged men has gone beyond healthy limits. A hobby has become an achievement-based sports for them that is a risk for their health. These man aim at excelling together with the professional sportsmen. Priit Pullerits, the protagonist of the film, offers the viewer a possibility to follow his training and daily life since he is an achievement-based hobby sportsman. The filmmakers look for the answer to the question why middle-aged men get so inspired by the sports? Is it because the are ...
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Zero Point

Original title: Nullpunkt

2014 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Debut feature film directed by Mihkel Ulk, telling about the burning issues of today's youth: school bullying and related low self-esteem, adaptation difficulties and search for appreciation.

Johannes is a sensitive young man with restless disposition who is accepted by an elite school in Tallinn. However, things won't get better for him as one could expect - he becomes the target of his classmates' mental terror. Johannes must also cope with his mother's progressive mental disease. When the three main pyramids of his life - home, friends and school - start to collapse, Johannes will reach the zero point. He realizes that in order to move on he has to start from himself - he works out a plan who to become accepted and gain popularity. Despite ...
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Free Range. Ballad on Approving of the World

Original title: Free Range. Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest

2013 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

An optimistic anti-western about the possibility to attain the inscrutable and benevolent indifference towards all mundane affairs even here, in the midst of the pointless and sad life of contemporary Europeans.

Fred is a young writer who instead of living a dull everyday life is indulged in daydreaming. He believes that romantic freedom is possible and the writer's status provides greater liberation in life for him. All of a sudden, Fred is not free any more. His girlfriend is pregnant and he has to take the consequences, adjust himself to the society, and give up the idea of romantic freedom. Fred is a free range man whose freedom is being restricted by society. He is asking himselt whether is is possible to live his life the way he won't suffer later ...
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Tõsise näoga mees

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

A portrait of a painter, philosopher, motocross racer, writer, and farmer. A man who livesas he chooses, still without breaking the law. He doesn’t care what people think. The chap resembling baron Musen and Estonian drifter and womanizer Nipernaadi lives partly in his dreams. Meet Jürna, a peculiar but sound character enriching a dull life.
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Silent Surrender

Original title: Ma elasin Eesti Vabariigis

2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Documentary by Liina Triškina about the year of 1939 that was fateful for the republic of Estonia. The film studies the subjects of freedom and critical situations, doings and undoings.

What does it feel to live in the turbulent times as a ten-year-old, in the country that one day thrives and the next day will disappear from the world map? The pivotal times of the year 1939 both for Estonia and the whole world changed history. The filmmakers examine the events side by side with the memories of the children of the era. Family photos, newspaper cuts, dramatic archival excerpts, memories of elderly people who used to be children at that time - all of this reflect the tragic events of 1939 and the silent destruction of the Republic of ...
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Intimate Town

Original title: Intiimne linn

2003 | Documentary | Director: Kristiina Davidjants

Both reality and fiction of Dovlatov's - a famous Russian writer - world opens up In conversations held with the prototypes of Dovlatov's book describing the period of his life in Tallinn in 1970s.

Russian legendary writer Sergey Dovlatov's book "The Compromise" was published at the time of the author's emigration in USA and describes the period that Dovlatov himself has called "Interior emigration" - that is the years that he spent in Tallinn, Estonia as a journalist (1972-1976). The documentary interviews the prototypes of the book, including Dovlatov's former colleagues and friends who comment on the literary work. They share background information that helps to interpret both Dovlatov's destiny as well as the essence of the Soviet era.
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Person is Missing

Original title: Inimene kadus

2000 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

In a small country Estonia every year about 100 people go missing. Their close ones call for help both heavenly and earth forces in order to find the missing family members.

The documentary follows three events: the mysterious disappearance of Eljo, the mother of four; searches of Jura, a young Russian man; and the story of Heidi who got lost and media went crazy about it. The close ones of the missing people call for help both heavenly and earthly forces: they make inquiries at a police station and visit clairvoyants. An incomprehensible situation makes people emotional, even Estonians with their non-existent temperament won't hide their annoyance and desperation, not to speak about hot-tempered Russians. The documentary raises the question: how is it possible that so many people go missing in ...
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Jaan Tõnisson 1868…

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks