Maria Avdyushko

After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.

It's the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union's basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation in the USSR's championship. That would contradict the people's aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start.

The 1960s and 70s brought a new wave of talented young poets and writers, painters and theater innovators to the gray and established culture of Soviet Estonia. Evald Hermaküla began his theatrical career as a young, angry genius working at the Vanemuine Theater, where he staged several legendary productions. The direction of Hermaküla was clear - away from the text and the rationality towards the subconscious. The film mixes theatrical and personal memories of the author with documentary archival material and Hermaküla's contemporary thoughts on theater, life and death.

Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door.

A lot has happened in a quarter of a century, but the Salmons have remained who they were - Estonia's first family, who have been viewed with both admiration and quiet envy. Viewers of the former series remember how well the Salmon family was able to make money. Now they have secured an even more powerful position in the society, because Ella Salmon has become the President of Estonia.

The mystical and thrilling drama asks what sort of reality can give our life meaning. The film tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength. Unexpectedly, her deepest wish to become a mother materializes, but not quite in the way she imagined it.

The mystical and thrilling drama asks what sort of reality can give our life meaning. The film tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move forward with her life, Pia learns the unknown but also finds her inner strength. Unexpectedly, her deepest wish to become a mother materializes, but not quite in the way she imagined it.

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.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. Harassment, mental violence, manipulation, cornering – these topics are current in both politics as well as private sphere. In these nightmarish confrontations, dramatics, mysticism as well as twisted comedy can be found. The short film “Christmas Mystery” by Andres Maimik and Katrin Maimik talks about student Jass, who makes extra money by playing Santa Claus. Behind one door, however, a lonely woman awaits him, who pulls him into weird role plays the polite youngster cannot say “no” to.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. The fourth short film, “Bewitched”, directed by Maria Avdjushko, talks about middle-aged Rainar, who discovers on a family outing that they have left behind their food. Wandering in the forest, he stumbles upon mysterious Liina, who slowly bewitches him.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. The fourth short film, “Bewitched”, directed by Maria Avdjushko, talks about middle-aged Rainar, who discovers on a family outing that they have left behind their food. Wandering in the forest, he stumbles upon mysterious Liina, who slowly bewitches him.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed over the years which provide the basis for the selection of characters. The Salon of Mati’s best friend Vaino Vahing in Tartu which brought together writers, scientists, and theatre pioneers; and the literary salon at Vilde tee in Tallinn in the home of Mati Unt and Kersti Kreismann at the beginning of Mati’s career as a director in the Youth Theatre in Tallinn.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed over the years which provide the basis for the selection of characters. The Salon of Mati’s best friend Vaino Vahing in Tartu which brought together writers, scientists, and theatre pioneers; and the literary salon at Vilde tee in Tallinn in the home of Mati Unt and Kersti Kreismann at the beginning of Mati’s career as a director in the Youth Theatre in Tallinn.

Фильм основан на фактах биографии легендарного эстонского фехтовальщика и тренера Энделя Нелиса (1925-1993). Спасаясь от НКВД, молодой эстонский фехтовальщик, призванный в свое время немцами в армию, бежит на родину в крошечный Хаапсалу, где начинает обучение школьников искусству фехтования. Однако прошлое настигает его, и Эндель встает перед выбором: остаться с учениками, добившимися права выступать на соревнованиях в Ленинграде, или снова отправляться в бега.

В фильме рассматриваются военные события, происходившие в Эстонии в 1944 году, в период от июльских боёв в Синимяэ до ноября, когда полуостров Сырве был уже завоёван войсками Советской Армии. Война показана глазами участников событий с обеих враждующих сторон - эстонцев, которые воевали и на стороне немецкой армии в 20-й эстонской дивизии Waffen-SS, и в составе 8-го Эстонского стрелкового корпуса Советской Армии. Для жителей Эстонии это была война, в которой каждый делал свой личный выбор. Именно с таким нелёгким выбором сталкиваются главные герои картины - солдаты противоборствующих сторон Карл Таммик и Юри Йыги - а также их сослуживцы, родные, близких и совсем незнакомые люди...

“Landscape with Many Moons“ is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever harder to distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

История двух женщин из разных эпох, чьи жизни одинаково полны обмана, отчаяния и страха. Алиида пережила кошмар сталинских лагерей и депортацию эстонцев в Сибирь. Одновременно ей приходится жить с чувством вины за свой оппортунизм и даже за гибель людей. Однажды ночью в 1992 году она находит во внутреннем дворике своего дома молодую женщину: Зара скрывается от бандитов русской мафии, которые держали ее как сексуальную рабыню. Впоследствии выясняется, что Алиида и Зара — родственницы. Постепенно их отношения и их истории сплетаются в сложную сеть…

История двух женщин из разных эпох, чьи жизни одинаково полны обмана, отчаяния и страха. Алиида пережила кошмар сталинских лагерей и депортацию эстонцев в Сибирь. Одновременно ей приходится жить с чувством вины за свой оппортунизм и даже за гибель людей. Однажды ночью в 1992 году она находит во внутреннем дворике своего дома молодую женщину: Зара скрывается от бандитов русской мафии, которые держали ее как сексуальную рабыню. Впоследствии выясняется, что Алиида и Зара — родственницы. Постепенно их отношения и их истории сплетаются в сложную сеть…

A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sipra. This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...

Дождливый летний вечер. В строящийся в подвале бывшего бомбоубежища ночной клуб «Фобос» съезжаются молодые люди, у каждого на это есть своя причина. Ребята из разных слоев общества: кто-то учится, кто-то бездельничает, кто-то трудится на этой стройке, а кто-то прожигает папины деньги. Поначалу встреча не предвещает ничего плохого. Однако происходит аварийное закрытие дверей бомбоубежища, и свет в помещении гаснет. Невольные узники не осознают всей опасности происшедшего — они шутят, пугают друг друга, но вскоре выясняется, что их мобильные телефоны вне зоны действия сети, а о своем намерении поехать в клуб они никому не сообщили…

Retroband Evergreen's reunion party is ruined when Viktor, who was once the band's frontman, threatens to blow the house up for revenge of his sad destiny.

10-year-old Martin meets a cat, who turns into a boy and helps Martin solve his problems which occurred after he changed school.

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.

On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.

A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him step down from the rollercoaster in order to make the right decisions.

Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that her father is part of the dissident anti-soviet underground. She soon find her self engulfed in the struggle with her father and a lot of new friends, and finds herself being hunted by the KGB.

Двое уважаемых людей, далеких от уголовного мира и от всего противозаконного, в стремлении к счастливой и обеспеченной жизни отважились на отчаянную авантюру, захватив самолет, перевозящий алмазы стоимостью $3 млн. Гарри Гриффин, в недавнем прошлом классный летчик, и его подружка Глория, чтобы обеспечить себе безбедную старость, решаются на опасную авантюру. План был разработан безукоризненно. Но жизнь всегда вносит свои коррективы. И идеальный план неожиданно рухнул. В погоне за удачей Гарри умудрился потерять и честное имя, и Глорию, и свободу. А нужна ли была такая большая цена за эфемерную удачу?..

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

On Christmas Eve, the residents of Peace Street discover that there are military guards in front of their houses. Soon they have to start showing their passports when entering their homes. The residents are told by the authorities that in order to keep the peace they have to be ready to co-operate. It is an order and people stick to it. It is heard that the foreign troops will leave when the snow will be gone - so it won't be long until the everyday life will be normal again. When spring arrives, not only the snow disappears but also lots of residents. Those who stay will look forward to the Midsummer Day.

В больницу маленького эстонского городка привозят молодого человека, пытавшегося покончить с собой. Парень не смог пережить страшный удар судьбы — выражаясь фигурально, в самый ответственный для юного любовника момент наш герой оказался несостоятельным. Одна из больничных медсестер, не молодая женщина, жалея несчастного юношу, помогает ему обрести душевное равновесие, жизнерадостность и мужскую уверенность в себе. Она приводит его ночью в одну из процедурных комнат и простейшим способом излечивает его от стремления к самоубийству, доказав, что страхи по поводу импотенции несколько преувеличены. За своё доброе дело она жестоко расплачивается...

К семикласснику Юрнасу, который живет в небольшом поселке, из города на каникулы приезжает его сверстница Кярт. Юрнас и его друзья, желая развлечь Кярт, решают научить ее фотографировать. За умеренную почасовую оплату они договариваются с одним из своих приятелей, что его младший брат будет «позировать» Кярт. Но малыш неожиданно исчезает... Это происшествие, в свою очередь, рождает целый ряд комических ситуаций, связанных с поиском юной «пропажи».

A guard on the Soviet-Chinese border who, after surviving a deadly attack, decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.