Jürgen Volmer : 2015
Grey

The forest is older than us, the parent of us all. In many nations' mythology the wolf is often a king of the forest, who hears, sees and knows everything. Little boy Mart lives in a cottage at the edge of the forest and something awful has happened in his family. The mother's efforts to save the daughter could bring success, but little Mart is too young to understand the ritual and puts at risk the fate of his family. A wolf always gets its share. Jürgen Volmer's short premiered in competition at Sleepwalkers International Short Film Festival 2015.

Veiko Õunpuu : 2015

Out of the blue, two fugitives, in rags and miserable, arrive at the farm by the sea, on the edge of the primeval, gloomy Roukli oak grove. One of them is badly wounded and their lives are in peril – a self-appointed vigilante Peedu and his gang of horsemen are following on their trail. As tension builds, repressed impulses surface and events become unhinged and dreamlike. Can we perhaps question the tragic nature of all of our dramas if we are able to question the very foundations of our reality, our selves, our beginnings and the ends? Veiko Õunpuu's feature premiered at European Film Festival Palić 2015.

Ilmar Raag : 2013
Love is Blind

A small village in Estonia. Kertu has lived here for over 30 years under her father's power. He is the reason she has a fear of strangers. Gentle and sensitive by nature, she is considered naive, reclusive and shy by the locals. One day the young woman makes an attempt to change something in her life. She sends a postcard with a poem she has copied to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk and womaniser. She has never expressed feelings for anyone before and he is touched. After the Midsummer's Day celebrations Kertu goes missing without a trace. Her entire family panics because this has never happened before. After a long search she is found trembling under Villu's bed. The judgemental villagers and the family accuse Villu of taking advantage of the woman. But what really happened that night? The slowly unravelling truth is more shocking than anyone could ever imagine. An unusual love story that depicts hidden relationships of people in a small village and one family. Ilmar Raag's feature premiered at Warsaw International Film Festival 2013, and screened at Riga International Film Festival 2014.

Martti Helde : 2014
Risttuules

On the night of 14 June 1941, over 40,000 inhabitants of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – identified as "anti-Soviet elements" by the USSR, which had annexed the Baltic states the previous year – were forced on to trains and sent to the remotest outposts of Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl, Eliide. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation, Erna never in the next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to her homeland. Drawing from the diary kept by the real-life Erna throughout her displacement, the film meticulously reconstructs one survivor's story to create a delicate, powerfully moving memorial to all the victims of this massive and often-overlooked tragedy. Martti Helde's feature debut received its international premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and was winner of the Ecumenical Jury Award at Warsaw Film Festival 2014.

Katrin Maimik & Andres Maimik : 2014
Cherry Tobacco

Summer is gradually drawing to a close and 16-year-old Laura is feeling jaded. There's a guy interested in her, but she just finds him silly; while both their families would love them to get together, Laura finds the idea exasperating. An unexpected offer to go hiking in the country for a few days to discover the wonders of the peat bogs provides her with a welcome opportunity to escape the mounting monotony as the end of the holidays draws near. Initially, Laura isn't exactly enthused by the overabundance of nature, nor by the somewhat rough-edged middle-aged team leader Joosep, who tries to impress the hiking party with his hillbilly style and bizarre rituals. Nevertheless, the unconventional pipe tobacco smoker begins to stir her interest and the feeling appears to be mutual. Much to her own surprise, Laura discovers that as the hike continues she is enchanted by the rugged charms of Joosep. The quest is coming to its irrefutable end and Laura has to decide whether a relationship with an older man is a mere step along the winding road towards becoming a woman, or whether it is her very first love. Katrin and Andres Maimik's collaborative feature debut premiered in competition in the East of the West section at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014.

Ben Rivers & Ben Russell : 2013

Following the journey of a person's spirit or essence, rather than character, we experience three moments of existence. We follow an unnamed man through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort, these three moments signal a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present. A hybrid document of the past, present, and future. Experimental and visionary filmmakers Ben Rivers and Ben Russell's collaborative feature premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2013.

Antti Jokinen : 2012
Puhdistus

A story following two generations of women in Estonia, from before the Stalinist deportations in 1949 until after the country's independence in 1991, intertwining the lives of Aliide, a villager, and Zara, a victim of human trafficking, linked by separate tales of deceit, desperation and fear. Aliide has experienced the horrors of the Stalin era and the deportation of Estonians to Siberia, but she herself has to cope with the guilt of opportunism and even manslaughter. One night in 1992 she finds a young woman in the courtyard of her house; Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia who held her as a sex slave. Aliide later discovers that the girl is related to her. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distil each other's motives. Gradually, their stories emerge, the culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that unfolded during the worst years of Estonia's Soviet occupation.