Estonia Movies

Colonel Smith arrives from the United States and does a lot of trouble in "one big good country" (kills a mushroom, blows a railway bridge with a train, poisons a well, etc.). The creators express hope that the saboteur will be caught in the next part of the f...

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the years of 1996 and 1997. The film chronicle covering two years can be viewed as a continuation to Sööt's earlier films "Year of the Dragon" and "Year of the Horse". All three documentaries are the portraits of years, modelle...

Miia takes care of her ornery grandfather, who has cancer, and her ailing grandmother, who is almost wholly bedridden. She struggles through her days in the oppressive atmosphere of her grandparents’ house, never complaining, contending with the cruel and piti...

Sleep has become an ideological field of tension. In the face of digital surveillance and optimisation, our once romanticised realm of dreams is now fragmented, clustered and sold off as so many units of data. Oddly enough, it would seem as if surrender and ab...

A film about two-time Olympic champion Erika Salumäe, filmed throughout her preparation for her third and final Atlanta Games. We summarize Salumäe's journey as an athlete so far and hear Erika's assessments of top sports and life in general.

Teenager Laura is forced to go to the countryside to live with her father and his new family, but things start to get more and more suspicious...

Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are seven years old and will start going to school. They live in different areas in Estonia. They're all different children with different schools and teachers. Yet, time is the same for all of them, passing by the same way. Where...

A bunch of juvenile gaming millionaires decide to organise an adventurous summer camp on an isolated island to enjoy their favourite activity - surfing on the phone.

In a lush garden, a dog digs deep, unearthing echoes of laughter, whispers, and ghostly children. Amid shifting visions, a child emerges—caught in a hypnotic journey through earth, memory, and imagination.

The heroes of the film are the people of Kiev, who have not lost their zest for life: they cook shashlik in their courtyards by candlelight and dance to the sound of generators. We see shelters in maternity wards and pregnant women ready to give birth as siren...

On a normal evening, a retired special agent receives a call from his former boss, who gives him a seemingly simple task. However, the mission turns out to be more difficult than expected when he seems to be running out of time.

In a world full of stupidity and fear, an unnaturally beautiful boy named Armin is born. Soon enough, Armin's magical nature begins to affect everything and everyone around him, leading to unexpected and dire consequences.

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?

The film primarily contains music and also reveals the problems of a singer with a bisexual background. The viewer is presented with concerts, as well as serious murder attempts by heterosexuals, the villagers' desire to turn the main character into a sexual o...

All towns in the world have legendary bars and drinking places. Tiny Valli Bar in Tallinn links different times and people and the film is a portrait of Estonian drinking scene. Shooting months turned out jolly, but also dramatic. One of the participants was k...

Something always happens with young hippos in Estonia. Jippos Happy the Hippo is a hefty hippopotamus weighing 350 kg. He is more energetic than most hippos and he is curious about everything new and interesting. Jippos is most friendly and polite but sometime...

Estonia can be cursorily viewed in several ways - either as a tiny periphery state or a border country. But there is also another way - to go deeper into the country while truly perceiving it. Here a totally different layer opens up. This documentary is an inv...

An observational documentary about homelessness and faith. A very big snowstorm named Monica hits Tallinn, Estonia in December 2010 and the film crew visits a soup kitchen opened for people in need. The film tries to observe the activities during Christmas hol...

A spectre is haunting the city - a spectre of a cryptic ghost. In the liminal, neglected areas of Ljubljana, lurks the spectre of a striped hyena - a ghost of an animal that fled from the travelling menagerie in 1898. After her escape she managed to lurk aroun...

According to pop culture mythology, Paris Hilton “invented” the selfie in 2006. In factual terms, Uber and its rideshare model was officially launched in 2010. Mare Tralla’s video precedes - and reflects - both of these cultural landmarks that have since becom...