Erki Laur

"8 views" is an eastern art tradition where one place (primarily the area around Lake Biwa in Japan) is described through eight motifs, among which are scarlet, snow, sailboats returning home in the evening, rain, autumn moon, temple bell, gust of wind, flight of forest geese. These motifs frame eight intertwining tragic love stories, the setting of which are modern Russian fishing villages of old believers on the border of Estonian-Russian settlements and cultures by Lake Peipsi. The spiritualization of everything living and inanimate from Japanese animism, the eroticism of shunga and the humble language of prayer merge into a spiritual and magical world of a small community, where one still believes that one is connected with everything.

An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.

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.

When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.

Doctor of Physics Sandra suddenly loses her job. Finding a new job seems easy at first glance, but it turns into various tragicomic challenges. Endless job interviews bring the former researcher together with all sorts of situations and new personalities.

Unexpectedly evicted from his house, Erki faces a rather difficult task to take care of his lonely mother. He’s forced to agree to become a corpse carrier.

En el bosque nevado y aislado de Estonia, Martí vive su vida a través de la rutina. Atormentado por su mal juicio pasado, se ha vuelto distante y sin vida. Kalev, un viejo comerciante local y amigo de Marti, intenta convencer a Marti de que deje atrás el pasado y siga adelante. Debido a un evento inesperado y la capacidad de persuasión de Kalev, Martí se encuentra al borde de un nuevo comienzo. Después de su viaje de rutina a la tienda, Marti encuentra a una joven, Irene, en la puerta de su casa. Martí, aunque vacilante, la invita a entrar a tomar un té. Martí no tarda mucho en darse cuenta de que Irene no es quien dice ser. Dividido entre el pasado y el presente, Martí se encuentra en un callejón sin salida. Mientras tanto, Kalev está alarmado por dos hombres estacionados fuera de su tienda y está seguro de sus malas intenciones. Martí, al conocer la siniestra trama en marcha, finalmente tendrá que reconciliarse consigo mismo o sufrir las consecuencias.

Hoping to find ways to start living independently, Liina travels from the country to her cousin Ave in the capital.

Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray.

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.

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...

Jacob, a farm boy from Denmark, joins U.N. Brigade's peacekeeping force in Bosnia, where he witnesses refugees trying to escape their war-torn villages. There, Jacob is befriended by Sergeant Holt, a cynical soldier.