Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts

Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts 2023

1

After the death of the world's last cow, a young couple finds themselves on a hunt for butter through the labyrinth of their apartment building. When they finally reach the basement, a dangerous game for life and butter awaits them.

2023

What's Up With Numbats?

What's Up With Numbats? 2023

1

Correctness-loving Eve and effortless Leida are colleagues and opposites, working everyday side by side at a small town library. During a casual wordgame between the two, prideful Leida´s factually wrong answer about Numbats habitat upsets Eve. Unfortunately for her the book to end the debate is missing. Unanswered calls to the bookholder and smirky Leida sets her off on a hunt for the book. An absurd adventure to prove her co-worker wrong begins and takes unusual turns until the very end.

2023

Rainer Sarnet’s The Invisible Fight

Rainer Sarnet’s The Invisible Fight 2023

1

As a portrayal of artistic process, the film examines the inner workings of a film director’s mind with the aim to understand Sarnet’s own invisible fight. We follow the journey of an endangered species called Estonian film director.

2023

An Exchange

An Exchange 2019

1

Tuuli and Kaspar needed a break from the city so they escaped for some alone time to a cabin in the wilderness. Or so they thought.

2019

Twin Turbo

Twin Turbo 2022

10.00

Set in a dystopian future. When an extremely dangerous Twin Turbo engine is stolen from the harbour twins, sister cops Nana and Lulu enter the world of illegal street racing in hopes of turning their lives around.

2022

Hunger

Hunger 2022

1

The film tells the story of the last Estonian family, who did not want to eat potatoes despite their hunger. The father takes it upon himself to solve the problem and before long the dining table is full again. But at what price and for how long?

2022

The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Kuliakov

The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Kuliakov 2022

1

Two low-ranking USSR officers are sent to occupied Estonia on a mission to track down a Captain who apparently went insane after discovering a mysterious radio signal coming from the middle of nowhere.

2022

The Fencer

The Fencer 2009

2.00

A young married housewife's dull routine is enlivened as she spies on the sexual escapades of her fencing instructor neighbour. She too is seduced by him, but the fear of losing her family results in hysteria and an unpredictable climax.

2009

12

12 2020

5.50

An old Finnish athlete travels alone through eastern Europe with his van.

2020

The Last Romeo

The Last Romeo 2013

8.00

Romantic country boy Lembo lives in a far away village, where men are drunkards and women are dreaming about the bright city life. Lembo has fallen in love with the village beauty Liisu and decides to propose to her. The story takes an unexpected turn when Liisu's father and the vodka loving dog step in. During one night lives and dreams will change and nothing will be like it used to be before.

2013

Wishes from the Well

Wishes from the Well 2022

1

The story of a man caught between the gears of life, who has to find the missing pennies to buy medicine before the pharmacy closes. When begging doesn't help, despair drives him to the bottom of the wishing well.

2022

Not Too Hard and Not in the Face

Not Too Hard and Not in the Face 2022

1

The 30-year-old protagonist Slava wakes up in a strange place with missing memories from last night. He’s taken to a hospital where Slava learns that in this odd, even dystopian world he has awakened, all the men have gone extinct long ago, leaving him the only man left in the world. Experimental fever-dream-like voyage through the mind and emotional turmoil of a young man trying to make sense of life as well as accepting the end of his relationship.

2022

Crossing The Line

Crossing The Line 2022

1

Jakop, a lone fisherman on the coast of lake Peipus has to decide whether refugees brought to his door are his way of redeeming past sins or merely a means to quickly earn much needed cash.

2022

Ordinary People

Ordinary People 2015

1

After his wife kicks him out of the house, an elderly, anti-social and quite conservative man Arvīds decides to reconnect with his grandson by staying with the boy and his mother. Not keen on their lifestyle, the old man tries hard to accept all the eccentricities of the young and liberal. Fortunately for him, a warm-hearted friend of Arvīds’ ex-daughter-in-law is always around to help and he seems to be a natural when it comes to children and other stubborn people. When Arvīds finds out that the young man is gay, he decides he has had enough. Often, life is not that much about finding your place, as about learning how to share that place with others. This short film is a light and playful experience, looking into the definition of “normal” that varies so strongly from generation to generation.

2015

The Prayer

The Prayer 2022

10.00

Jakop has been living by Peipsi for several generations. He is not the best fisherman and doesn't have much money. One day, Jakop's nephew arrives at the yard. Jakop has a chance get a thousand rubles if he agrees to make one small trip over the lake and back. Namely, the nephew has a fugitive in the car who thinks that he is on the north coast. But Jakop refuses the offer. However, he allows his nephew and the refugee to stay with him for the night. In the morning, however, the nephew leaves and leaves the speechless fugitive to Jakop's conscience. Jakop has to make a decision - whether he takes refugees across lake Peipus? In the whirlwind of events, memories come to life in Jakop's dreams about his brother and his suicide. Jakop begins to see similarities between the lost brother and the fugitive.

2022

Is It You?

Is It You? 2013

1

A phone rings in the night. A man makes a mistake and picks it up.

2013

Kangling

Kangling 2022

1

An ancient leg bone is found during archeological excavations. It's soon identified as an ancient whistle for performing old buddhist rituals. To learn more about the mysterious instrument, a young scientist flees to the countryside. Before long she discovers that the enchanting sound of the whistle starts to take a strange hold of her.

2022

Gracias a La Vida

Gracias a La Vida 2012

1

A musical journey to the roots and meaning of happiness, time and money.

2012

Common Language

Common Language 2020

1

The director, who has always been viewed as the black sheep in her family, sets out to the Belarusian town of Vitebsk to talk with her parents about previous grievances and topics that were considered taboo. The effort to find a common language, which runs into stormy emotions and the inability to voice honest opinions, is captured through both personal moments and detailed shots of the protagonists’ faces.

2020

The Limits of Consent

The Limits of Consent 2022

1

Anna, a high-tech pick-up artist who helps awkward men to seduce lonely women in high-class bars on cold evenings in Tallinn. She can play the game of sex and love like a professional, she knows just what to say to manipulate anyone into doing what she wants (or consenting to what she wants). But Anna's own love life is far from perfect and she cannot see that she is being manipulated, too.

2022