Harmo Kallaste

Film takes the viewer into the world of men living in small towns in Estonia, showing their everyday thoughts and concerns.

A richly animated documentary about the extremely popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror. In the Fellini-like world of Gori (1894-1944), farce and drama, mockery and big politics mix. There is no subject that Gori's pen will not mock until the winds turn and mouths are closed.

A journey with Estonia's oldest and most popular band.

A gang of five children spend their summer in an abandoned factory complex. When they are forbidden to go there by the factory owner for safety reasons, the children decide to ignore the ban. This decision changes their lives forever and the friends face a grim confrontation.

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

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

A film about three sisters who have reached different turning points in their lives. Liis, who has just graduated from high school, discovers that the future planned with her boyfriend is not so certain. Elder sister Karin, the first victim of her parents' expectations, tries to cope in today's sexist business environment. Jane, the youngest of the sisters, tries to resist the pressure of her party animal friend to prove herself as someone who she is not. During one fateful night, secrets and feelings that none of them wanted to admit to themselves before are revealed.

Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan tribe, who live in the prairies of North Dakota, on the banks of the Missouri River. The job involves a lot of responsibility, and he is running out of time – his language guide, the 84-year-old Edwin Benson, is the last native speaker of Mandan.

Five fresh short films on the theme "With the best intentions" from even fresher Estonian directors.

A middle aged woman is an accountant and becomes addicted to gambling. She steals over 800 000€ from her customers and loses everything to the local gambling company on the small island where she lives.

Priest Giorgi, a former Film Director, is sent to serve the small parish in the mountain village. To bring villagers closer to church he starts showing films there. After the screening of the first picture - "Some Like It Hot" - the audience imply that the local music teacher Lili looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. After meeting Lili, Father Giorgi's balance between cleric and secular world starts to quiver - the woman is extremely sexy and the temptation is difficult to resist.

Гражданин России, родившийся в Советской Украине, Виталий Манский бороздит просторы Украины и выясняет, как сегодня живёт его многочисленная родня. Ведь их жизнь, как в зеркале, отражает то, как сегодня живет народ Украины после революции на Майдане. Родственники режиссёра обосновались в разных уголках страны: одни живут во Львове, другие в Одессе, кто-то в сепаратистской зоне Донбасса, а кто-то в Крыму в Севастополе. Главный лейтмотив фильма — выявить причины конфликта, в результате которого граждане некогда единой страны, включая и членов семьи режиссёра, оказываются по разные стороны баррикад.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. "Family Lies" by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

Сюжет картины рассказывает о событиях во время Абхазской войны 1992 года в деревне эстонских переселенцев на Кавказ. Хозяин одного из домов села, эстонец по национальности, пытается понять, какая из двух противоборствующих сторон права в развязавшемся конфликте.

A demeaning game-show appearance, an ill-advised mushroom-picking outing that goes horribly off the rails, inquiries from a cynical reporter — things just keep getting worse for the middle-aged politician at the centre of Estonian director Toomas Hussar's satire about a shallow, fame-obsessed post-Cold War culture.

A story of a naive man, whose direct behavior stirs in people moral unrest, rage and embarrassment over their own pettiness, making them yearn for goodness. Based on the book by F. Dostojevski.

Когда трагедия затрагивает нашу жизнь, трудно сохранять мотивацию. Семидесятилетний Мати страстно читает книги и проводит свободное время со своей милой женой. Однако, когда его жена умирает, ни его дочь-подросток, ни его дорогие книги не помогают. Одиночество и равнодушие захлестнули его жизнь; Мати замышляет самоубийство, но странный 60-летний мужчина, кажется, дает ему надежду.

Aggivald, 23, is living in a suburban boiler-house that is fuelled by books - books without endings. The biggest passion for the young man is to write a new ending for each book. Aggivald doesn't know that his family has a story of its own, a story that reaches back to the Soviet time and has no ending either.

"Revolution of Pigs" is an adventurous youth comedy, taking place in a Woodstock-like milieu. The main character is Tanel, a 15-year-old boy, who, taking part of a youth revolt against the system, finds himself and his love.

Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.

Fantasy and reality dance a wicked tango in this quirky comedy about the misadventures of Mill and Norm, two talented radio actors in Estonia.

В 1918-м году на защиту Эстонской Республики плечом к плечу с солдатами встали и эстонские гимназисты, прямо со школьной скамьи они добровольцами ушли на фронт...

Странная мистерия про чудаковатого старика и немого мальчика. Старик живет на острове-полигоне, который используется советской военной авиацией для тренировочных бомбометаний: после каждого такого налета он по телефону сообщает квадраты, в которые попали бомбы. Еще старик разводит пчел и известен как целитель. Мальчика на остров отправляют по просьбе его матери, после того, как он онемел. А онемел он намеренно, в знак протеста против того, что его мать работает проституткой в передвижных военных борделях. Обнаружив мать с очередным хахалем, сын бросился на нее с ножом, ранил в руку и после этого перестал говорить. Женщина надеется, что старик вылечит мальчика. Вот и живут на острове два одиночества. И обоих мучают воспоминания - старика о годах, проведенных в исследовательской экспедиции в Африке, мальчишку - о том, что он видел дома. Живут до тех пор, пока в результате очередного налета бомбы попадают не туда, куда надо...