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Stefan

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Ann Einberg

The world comes to an end on the 21st of December 2012. There is a time loop and Stefan is the only one who is able to see that.

21st of December 2012. Two very different people meet at the café in Tallinn – a young journalist and Stefan. They want to discuss Stefan’s newest book that talks about the Mayan Calendar and possible apocalypse. A lighthearted interview takes an unexpected turn as the surroundings around them start to change. Is this really the end?
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The Kazõm Report

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Laura Kõiv

Documentary about Khanty children and bout their games and worldview.

Khanty children plays are shown where comes out connections to surrounding world while having conversations and interviews within guests from abroad.
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How I Saved Africa

Original title: Kuidas ma Aafrikat päästsin

2014 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

A witty and insightful portrait film by Kullar Viimne speaks not only of the clash of civilizations and the everlasting conflict of idealism and inevitability but also sympathizes with the hardships of one small Estonian girl in a big world.

Siisi is an active and attractive young woman who'd have enough energy to send Estonia's first spaceship to Mars. But instead, the urge to make the world a better place sends Siisi far away to Uganda, where she plans to open a café with the help of donators to offer work to the local young handicapped people. The start of the project is dashing but as the times goes by the more Siisi's idealism confronts the local working culture, sexual prejudice and economic inevitability because in a country that is one of the biggest coffee bean exporters only 0.6 percent ...
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95

2013 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Hardi Keerutaja

A lazy boy tries to win back his mother’s trust.
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Better Tomorrow

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

Liis Nimik's film tells a story of several Estonian workers who have left to Finland for a better future.

Six years after Finland opens up it's job market to new EU member states, a considerable number of Estonians have left their poorly paid jobs in Estonia in search of a better tomorrow in Finland. A bag that's always packed, a bed in an anonymous room, a kitchen that's used by countless people – these are lives on permanent standby. This is a story of a house near Helsinki, where ten Estonians live on the ground floor and Tomi, their employer, a Finn and a true Estophile, on the second. Tomi wonders why the Estonians don't do much with ...
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Children of Tunkashila

Original title in Estonian: "Tunkashila lapsed"

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

Children of Tunkashila is a documentaru film, where Reti Üpraus, also know as Dancing Fox explains the relationship of estonians and Native Americans. She also tells how to life Native American lifestyle in Estonia.
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Drought

Original title (in Estonian): "Põud"

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Ivar Murd

A love triangle between two former lovers and an extravagant expatriate. Together, in the suffocating Tallinn night, the trio form a plan to sail to St. Petersburg in the morning, but dawn is far away.
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Home

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Gabriel Motta-Ferreira

Gabriel Motta Ferreira's ''HOME'' is a bachelor thesis short film about life as an alien in another country. The film follow three different perspectives from three foreigners living in Tallinn, Estonia.

Alonso, Katya and Marco are foreigners in Estonia. They talk about the local language, people, weather and where is home.
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House of Cards

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

Carlos Lesmes’s Master thesis is a film about the idea of the grass being greener on the other side. About the modern day feeling that even if life is ok, we might be missing something. The idea that – always – somewhere out there everything its better.

The film is about hopes and dreams, about the idea that somewhere out there life is much better and how this affects the main charachter and his relationships.
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Natural Sacred Sites in Estonia

Original title: Looduslikud pühapaigad Eestis

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Besides his documentary "Charm of Sacred Groves", director Rein Maran also completed another film where representatives of different fields of life contemplate on the sacred sites in Estonian nature.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia - the places that are holy in nature; more than one thousand holy trees, sacrificial stones, healing springs and other natural cult objects. How has the heritage been passing along throughout the centuries? How much do people know about these places and what is their attitude towards them? What do these places mean to contemporary people? Various researchers and scientists discuss on these themes in the documentary.
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