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Cohabitants

Original title: Eluteelised

2024 | Documentary | Director: Viesturs Kairišs
Heart of Stone

Original title in Estonian: Kivi südamel

2024 | Students film, Short | Director: Greta Liht

The short film tells about the relationship between mother and daughter, which is overshadowed by grief and the resulting problems that have driven a wedge between Elo and her mother.

Amidst the funeral of her little sister's rat, buried feelings of blame resurface in the broken family.
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Raul Vaiksoo - Pätt või Pühak?

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mattias Veermets

Architect Raul Vaiksoo marches on the fringes of blindness and genius, twisting the rules, blessing the digital world and enjoying the hustle and bustle of life.

Raul still doesn't have a cell phone, he doesn't drive, and he refuses to hurry. However, renowned architect Raul Vaiksoo always comes to meet clients, give lectures and go on crazy trips with friends. Raul believes that the divine touch is only gained through work, and when inspiration comes, he works for several days in a row. The buildings he designed can be found all over Estonia and he has been awarded both the annual award of the Cultural Endowment and the Order of the Republic of Estonia for his works. However, the charismatic man does not always stand on the pedestal ...
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Quicksand

Original title in Dutch: Drijfzand

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Margot Schaap

The story of an intriguing mother-daughter relationship and its repercussions for three generations of women.

Suze and her husband moved from Amsterdam to a small island in the Netherlands. They now live a warm-hearted, slow-paced life with their bubbly six-year-old daughter. Until the day, Suze’s colourful, extravagant mother Helena pays them a visit after a long radio silence. When Helena informs Suze about the tumour in her head Suze decides to start travel back and forth to the city to help her. Being a theatre actress all her life, Helena knows how to sweetly manipulate her daughter into her reliance. Suze seems powerless to this force and slowly relapses into compulsive behaviour. Torn between her ...
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Eat, Prey, Bird

Original title in Estonian: Terroriseerivad tiivulised

2020 | Students film, Exercises (factual/documentary) | Director: Matiias Viiking Ojaveski

The feathered have conquered Pae park. Ringvar Heamägi puts his life on the line and covers the story.

Ten children have been adbucted from Pae park and according to eyewitness accounts, the perpretrators are birds. Ringvar Heamägi investigates if the locals are aware of the coming apocalypse. What measures are taken to defend the locals from the birds and does humanity even have hope to prevail?
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Mehed

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Gerda Kordemets
Oak Lake Pins

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Oto Klavins

The story centers around the idea of feeling alone among other people. This often is experienced in modern day society that when those who are different and do not relate to others are considered weird or socially awkward. The story of Oak Lake Pins experiments with this idea – What if everyone around you were complete idiots and you were stuck on an island with them?

Oak Lake Pins is the story of a young, depressed man Oliver who finds that his favorite bowling alley has been shut down because of other people’s foolishness. Without any happiness left for him in the town of Oak Lake he decides to leave but soon he finds out that all his life he has been living on an island and as it turns out everyone has known that already except for Oliver himself. Oliver takes his first steps of an attempt to escape the island by building a raft, but soon he realizes that someone wants to prevent that ...
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Love express

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kuba Mikurda

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies. The film features interviews with his closest collaborators, filmmakers and leading intellectuals who put his work into perspective, including Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Neil Jordan, Andrzej Wajda, Patrice Leconte, Slavoj Žižek. It offers a rare insight into Walerian Borowczyk’s work and poses questions about artistic freedom. This unique artistic chronicle sheds light on his professional philosophy and artistic achievements and investigates how does one get from creating cutting-edge work and competing in Cannes ...
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Lucavsala

Original title: Prügi mahapanek keelatud!

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Documentary directed by Jaak Kilmi about Lucavsala (Lutsusaar) in the heart of Riga, Latvia and about the battle of the local gardening cooperative for existence.

Lucavsala (Lutsusaar) is an island in almost central Riga, in the middle of the River Daugava. In 1930s, there were farm houses and herds of cows in the island. After the war the island was divided into gardening lots for the workers of Soviet big industries. The spontaneous life and activities in the gardening cooperative in Lucavsala is opening up through the humorous details and contrasts. The protagonist Rasma, a 76-year-old self-initiated chairwoman of the gardening cooperative, checks the maintenance in the island, reprimands the lazy ones and the drunkards, collects taxes and pokes her nose into other people's matters. ...
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Transgression

2013 | Students film, Short | Director: Oscar Henri Wollsten

Writer/Director Oscar Wollsten's Bachelor's Thesis is a thrilling and complex story about redemption.

”Transgression” is a character study about a man, whose self-destructive mission leads him into a purgatory-like state, where he must face his past and redeem himself, before the final judgment.
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