Oblíbený Z Estonia

The Old Man is tired.

The story of an ordinary park bench where the lives of different young people intersect.

A breezy look into an illegal database from a CD-ROM, which contains personal data of Estonian citizens.

Conversations with Harro

A floating bed and a woman carefully - and gently - holding a mouse close to her body. Gazing into the void, she is carried by a train of (sub)consciousness. Chimes and (human and animal) voices punctuate this windy, grassy journey. Like in a possible (sleep) paralysis, the terrain of the real and otherworldly are in permanent tension. She fails to close her eyes.

Original Estonian underground rave generation video art – it's cheap, it's loud, it looks like a home video, it's a manifesto against the male-dominated, post-Soviet art world. Created for the exhibition "private views. space re/cognized in contemporary art from Estonia and Britain" (curated by Mare Tralla and Angela Dimitrakaki in the Estonian Art Museum, 1998) Kiwa was the only male artist on the show and chose, quite pertinently, to focus on the space most associated with male creativity. The mythology of the artist's studio as the protected sanctuary of freedom and self-expression par excellence has risen across diverse techniques of visual signification. Access to the studio means access to a celebrated subjectivity.

Mirror on the wall, camera on the ceiling: fast tracked images of waves of an influx of movement inside a women’s bathroom. Entering, waiting, using, leaving: this is a surveillance-style depiction of the transitory life in a non-place filled with possibilities.

An encounter between two men in a club in Riga. A stagnant, distant but carefully observant capturing of a hypnotising pole dance to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, that ultimately leads to a personal/closer connection, with general introductory questions about life (and its expectations).

1. Catherine's Ring 2. Body Rider

An observational documentary that portraits the Estonian island of Prangli and its small community, which becomes crowded during Midsummer. A week with endless daylight and charming folklore.

A woman moves out of a nursing home where she has been for some time. The house she moves into is inhabited by a ghost who doesn't like anyone new coming into the house. The ghost sets out to scare the woman out of the house.

The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes. Choreography and dancing partners may change but the simplicity, passion and belief in fairytales still remain...

On the half-way of his worldly journey, Toomas Edur looks back to his significant dancing career. High jumps on the world stages made him great also in the eyes of his own people, although the most remarkable footage of his performances have only recently been shown to his home audience. Where to go on and with whom, when it is time to leave the stage? Where is the home where a fairytale man to return after searching for fortune in the wide world?

Lost film. Helja, an Estonian woman, and his British groom John have met during the Estonian War of Independence. They hear from an old professor of an old folk tale about the dark past of Estonia. Estonian pageboy Mangu who works at von Sternhell's manor proposes a pretty slave girl Linda. However, von Sternhell gives orders to steal the bride right in the middle of the wedding. She will be taken to von Sternhell's castle according to the brutal middle-age custom – the law of the first night. Together with fellow villagers, Mangu gets into a desperate battle with the noblemen in order to save his wife's pride.

A lively little girl runs across the field until she notices a dead bird lying on the ground. The soul leaves the bird’s body and starts moving towards the forest which the curious girl decides to follow. Not knowing what lies ahead, the child falls into the dark spirit world and must find her way back home.

Vahur Kersna's large-scale movie of the life, work and fate of Alo Mattiisen, who became the figurehead of the singing revolution.

Collection of five short films that depict seemingly inescapable situations. "A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. Harassment, mental violence, manipulation, cornering – these topics are current in both politics as well as private sphere. In these nightmarish confrontations, dramatics, mysticism as well as twisted comedy can be found.