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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Class Reunion 2: A Wedding And A Funeral

Original title - Klassikokkutulek 2: Pulmad ja matused

2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: René Vilbre

The sequel to one of the most loved Estonian comedy films sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead.

This is a blunt comedy in the best sense with treasured Estonian actors, telling a story about life itself and much more. The sequel to film "Class Reunion" sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Henry "Genka" Kõrvits). This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead. It has been two years since the first Class Reunion film and our three friends have all reached new stages in their lives. The rock star Toomas has finally ...
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uus

2018 | Music video, Students film | Director: Liis Lindmaa
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Virolog

Original title: Viirusekandur

2015 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andres Maimik, Rain Tolk

Charismatic freethinker and libertine Kalev Rajangu is searching new intellectual and physical challenges to his life. Unfortunately life is offering only too lousy options.

Kalev Rajangu is a small town organist, a grave-digger, a radical artist and charismatic lector, a free thinker and a provocateur, for somebody a real genius for somebody a real madman. But the hermits life doesn’t offer too many challenges. He decides to demolish the system with süstem’s own means and herald his message to the most influential audience. Rain Tolk’s and Andres Maimik’s documentary is following his triumphs and lowpoints on this hard but interesting journey.
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6th January (Epiphany)

Original title (in Estonian): "6.jaanuar (Kolmekuningapäev)"

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Nora Särak

"6th January (Epiphany)" is a poetic documentary about lifecycle. Originally 6th January was celebrated as the birthday of Christ, a Christian festival held in honor of the coming of the three kings to the infant Jesus Christ. Also it symbolises the end of Christmas. This is the day that marks the end and the beginning.
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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Person is Missing

Original title: Inimene kadus

2000 | Problem oriented, Documentary | 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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