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Kalev

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ove Musting

It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union`s basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team’s participation in the USSR’s championship. That would contradict the people’s aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start…
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Athlete

Original title in Estonian: Atleet

2021 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

The short film “Athlete” was made by first-year films students of Baltic Film, Media and Arts School. The film shows how one man’s obsession can lead to harm for others. At the same time, the film also shows a father’s unwavering belief that his son is capable of more than it seems.

An authoritarian father is determened to make an athlete out of his weakling son. Unfortunately one man`s obsession might lead to dire consequences for another.
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Marathon

Original title: Maraton

2006 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

A small town is gripped with excitement in anticipation of the annual marathon. Instead of the starting shot, a bomb explodes.

A small town is gripped with excitement in anticipation of the annual marathon. Instead of the starting shot, a bomb explodes. A chain of events is set off and nobody can guess how it will end. The police inspector, a sculptor, a gang of crooks operating in the vicinity of a public lavatory – all of them have to go through their own marathon. Only a balloon released by chance glides on its own without knowing how things began or how they will end.
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Võidusõit

1984 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Kaarel Kurismaa
Insects' Summer Games

Original title: Putukate suvemängud

1971 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Heino Pars

Competitions in which insects demonstrate their abilities take place at the Green Meadows Olympic Stadium. Film puppet Siki-Triki reports from the sporting games.

Competitions in which insects demonstrate their abilities take place at the Green Meadows Olympic Stadium. Film puppet Siki-Triki reports from the sporting games.
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Bike Tamers

Original title: Jalgrattataltsutajad

1963 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juli Kun

The musical comedy directed by Yuli Kun is full of romantic intrigues, sports and hazarding. It is a story about an attractive bike constructor Rita and three young men who become fierce competitors both in sports and in love. Starring the Russian film actress Lyudmila Gurchenko.

Attractive bike constructor Rita has completed a brand new racing bike model called the Light Blue Antelope. She is looking for somene to test the new bike at Tallinn-Riga bicycle race but no one among the bicycle racers will agree. Then she seems to find the right solution - her new acquaintances Robert and Leo are two successful sportsmen. There are two parallel plot lines in the film: next to the abovementioned story, there is another one, an animated parody depicting the adventures of Author and Director during the film shooting and at the arts council.
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Dangerous Curves

Original title: Ohtlikud kurvid

1961 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juli Kun, Kaljo Kiisk

This is the panorama version of the feature film "Venturous Curves", a co-production by Tallinn Film Studio and Mosfilm. It is a comedy about fooling an arrogant sports celebrity by twin sisters, about the friendship of young people, love, and sports ethics.

Marika, a student and a motobike racer, and her identical twin sister Ellen, a ballerina, experience lots of fun and dramatic adventures during the motorbike racing event. Marika has an opportunity to choose among her fellow sportsmen, all of them having different values in life. Raul has become too self-confident and arrogant due to his athletic achievements and will be deeply disappointed when instead of winning another race it turns out that he is being cheated by the twin sisters.
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Venturous Curves

Original title: Vallatud kurvid

1959 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Juli Kun, Kaljo Kiisk

The first Estonian wide-screen feature film directed by Juli Kun and Kaljo Kiisk is a pure situation comedy where twin sisters (both roles played by Terje Luik) are in the middle of passionate adventures during a motorbike competition.

Vaike, a student and a motorbike racer, arrives at the racetrack where the bikes are already racing at full speed. She gets involved in adventures while getting acquainted with Raivo, successful biker and womanizer, and Heino, another big league biker who offers Vaike his help in preparing for the competition. Vaike finds it hard to face all that alone. Her twin sister Maret will helped her with this complicated situation. Only that this time Maret's new husband Ants will join the game. He is convinced that he can make the difference between Maret and Vaike.
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