PYRAMUS & THISBE 2016
In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot to escape their homes to start a new life somewhere far from their families.
In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot to escape their homes to start a new life somewhere far from their families.
Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seems that he has to wait forever. One day an alien called Tipp is sent on Earth (by its chief Tapp) to find out the purpose of Estonian children's TV show "Tipp and Tapp". Tipp nestles himself inside Mati's brains that leads the man to unpredictable actions.
Jaan Tootsen’s documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in the last year and a half of his term in office – as he grapples with the complexities of world politics and his private life. Tootsen’s keen camera eye follows Ilves at his most difficult moments, showing no mercy, but creating a gripping, rather harsh and at the same time very human portrait of the President.
An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.
A life is difficult even for children during the forties in Estonia...
The 6 short films of "Tabamata ime" are based on Edward Vilde's play of the same name first published in 1912. Vilde's play is about a young piano player Leo Saalep, who returns to his homeland Estonia to give a concert, and whose alleged international breakthrough has given him the long awaited role of putting Estonian culture on the map in the eyes of the local culture elite.
Sauna Day invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.
When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as a Red Violinist is to call the proletariat around the world to join with the revolution. It is only two things - music and revolution - that Eduard has dedicated himself to. His audience is enchanted by his performance and ignited by his ideas. With this knowledge, he travels Europe between the two world wars, accompanied by his faithful friends, his audience's admiration and the hostility of the authorities.
A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation homogeneous for a long time, but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
After being fired from his job at a newspaper for writing a destructive review of a celebrated movie, Fred, an aspiring writer, learns that his girlfriend is pregnant.
The Judge (Mait Malmsten) is a man who represents strict rules and laws in the courtroom. However, his own personal life is an absolute mess. After the judge makes a decision to give a long prison sentence to a woman, the woman’s brother (Märt Avandi) starts following the judge to change his mind about the verdict. The judge stays adamant. The verdict is final. A conflict takes place between the men, resulting in the judge suddenly becoming a criminal himself. Unable to confess his crime, the judge escapes to Finland, where a series of comedic twists and turns lead him to a number of strange people and comical situations. However, the shadows of his dark deeds keep haunting him. To leave his dark crime behind and to fix his earlier decisions, the judge returns home.
The young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920's when on December 1, 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup. The film follows the fates of a young soldier called Tanel and his wife, a telephone operator named Anna, amidst the ensuing chaos which determines whether the country remains independent or becomes a minor province in the Communist Empire.
The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself. Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944.
The story of a bunch of peasants who have a hard time using logic to build their community.
Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.
In the midst of Stalinist tyranny, six-year-old Leelo's mother is sent to a prison camp. Haunted by her mother's last words telling her to be a good kid, Leelo vows to be on her best behaviour in the confusing grown-up world in the hope that it will bring her mother back.
"Roots" tells six very personal stories - a first, big love, the loss of a child, ageing, infidelity, fragile relationships with close ones. Six different views on what our family and environment has left in us and what we leave behind.
A woman's adult son has fallen into a coma after being shot. Taking care of him at home, she has to face a whole town trying to solve the puzzle of what exactly happened.
Children are left at grandma's house without their smartphones. Real life seems rather boring until they find instructions for the Kratt - a magical creature who will do whatever its master says. All they have to do now, is to buy a soul from the devil.
50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The younger one, Ilmar, a formerly capable artist, has just been released under an amnesty from a camp where he ended up for some youthful prank. Older brother Alex, by nature a more reserved person who prefers to find compromise solutions, is the complete opposite of Ilmar. The meeting of the brothers develops into a conflict, complicated by the fact that Ilmar got in touch with repeat offenders in the camp, and now they are threatening him with violence.
Baltic Robinson was a popular television show that aired in the Baltic region of Europe from 2000 to 2004 and was the first pan regional edition of Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries. During its five-year run, the show was hosted by Emil Rutiku for Estonian, Vytautas Kernagis for Lithuanian and Pauls Timrots for Latvian audience. Due to the show's success, at least one contestant, Kristine Koļadina, was given her own spin-off show which aired and was popular with viewers in her home country of Latvia. The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.
In Kalamaja, Estonia, two couples—Olli and Sofi, and Moonika and Jan—find their relationships tested by love, trust, and the unpredictable nature of being in your 20s. As Olli struggles with the weight of her parents' disapproval, cracks begin to form in her once-idyllic romance with Sofi. Meanwhile, a sexual health scare throws Moonika and Jan into uncertainty, pushing Moonika to seek comfort in unexpected places—including a chaotic speed dating event. As tensions rise and hard truths come to light, both couples must decide—will facing reality bring them closer or tear them apart for good?
TV host Tuuli Roosma decides to leave her comfortable life behind and follow her filmmaker husband Arbo Tammiksaar to a remote Siberian eco-village to live among a cult community lead by a religious leader Vissarion. They move to Siberia with their 3-year-old twin boys to spend a year fully off grid.
A series of four young women of very different characters who are complete opposites of the worldview. Due to the twists and turns of life, they have to live under one roof.
A great and unprecedented domestic love story, where in addition to romantic moments of love, there are also many adventures and surprising turns! The main parts of the wonderful series are Marko Matvere and the rising stars Desiree Mumm, Liset Loigu and Oskar Seeman.
A family with two smart twin boys has lived in the most amazing places in the world and tried to fit in as locals while surviving in Siberian ecovillage of a religious leader Vissarion, setting up a yurt village in China, building unlikely friendships in Australia and now trying to fit in Muslim community in Iran.
Süü is a family drama exploring the themes of retribution, justice, guilt and forgiveness. Gripping, paced and tense, the series leaves a lot of open questions until the final reveal.
Estonia's Next Top Model or Eesti tippmodell is a new Estonian reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that places contestants against each other in a variety of challenges and photo shoots to determine who will win the title of Estonia's Next Top Model, with prizes including the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, and a contract with Premier Model Management.
Estonian dating reality show in which young men and women all move into a beach house with the hope of finding romance.
TV host Tuuli Roosma takes his family - a documentary director Arbo Tammiksaar and their twin boys Andres and Kristjan - to live in People's Republic of China. They try to fit in as locals, learn mandarin Chinese and help set up a yurt village in Yunnan province. The inevitable culture crash is a basis for a situational comedy. The 5-year talkative twin boys add to daily fun.
This story is about drawing dashes. The dashes are pulled down, the dashes are pulled on, and the dashes are pulled on the doorknob to see how much these children have grown again. How does this growing up work? And why doesn't it always work?
The sailing ship Admiral Bellingshausen is on its way towards the Arctic to bring the Estonian flag as close to the North Pole as possible.
The humorous drama series focuses on four men, their relationships and their families. Aleks, Raivo, Marek and Toomas are modern-day men and fathers who face unexpected parenting challenges. Each of them solves the situations very differently, but together they successfully bring out the good and the bad of the modern parent. The stories of four friends are alive and definitely recognizable - there is also a lover, a breakup and other difficult relationship problems. How do men manage it all?
TV personality Tuuli Roosma and her film director spouse Arbo Tammiksaar take their twin sons on an adventure through Australia.