Writing
A coming-of-age tale told in a magical-realism style about a teenage boy, Morten, who feels out of place among his wealthier classmates. While they enjoy expensive school trips, he spends his days in his family’s dilapidated farmhouse, finding solace only in a camera gifted by his grandfather, a lens through which the world seems brighter. When two girls enter his life - Miia, a street artist, and Emilie, a mysterious girl from the marsh - Morten’s world is turned upside down as he struggles to understand both his first stirrings of love and the changing world around him.
As Karl learns about his girlfriend's serious diagnosis, he finds himself in a situation where the fear of being blamed for what happened triggers a cycle of lies. While seeking a way out of his tangled web of dishonesty, Karl is no longer confident in standing by his girlfriend.
After the death of the world's last cow, a young couple finds themselves on a hunt for butter through the labyrinth of their apartment building. When they finally reach the basement, a dangerous game for life and butter awaits them.
The day before Christmas, the Veterinary Board receives a positive A test result from a wild boar shot by a hunter. The young veterinary officer has a disposal machine ready and starts touring the farms in his former home village. The very first farm in Kiuma village is home to the elderly and childless Ants and Minna. For the couple, their domestic animals are a substitute for their missing children and loved ones. At the same time, Ants' nephews arrive with their wives and children. The goal is to quickly deliver the gifts and drive back home to the city. But the farmer Ants announces the situation he is in with his animals, and now he needs the help of his relatives to slaughter the pigs.
Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the Wild West of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious castles of German nobility that have sworn allegiance to the Czar, and to the depths of ancient forests where witchcraft is still practiced. Juhan is fighting crime and his own inner demons. He is considered mad and pronounced crazy. But by standing for justice and truth, at the end of the day, he is the sanest of them all.
Luna returns to her childhood home to retrieve old recordings hidden in a closet and to re-live the sense of home that once was. Much to her surprise, she meets the new inhabitant, from who she hides her true intention.
Elo is visiting her family on a small island. Her complicated relationship with her mother is just about to warm up, when her half-sister’s pet rat Siisik takes its last breath. The family dinner is interrupted by the need to send Siisik on a last farewell. The mother’s apathy towards the death of the pet rat triggers Elo and opens up a gate to the past, when her own grief was left unnoticed.
Despite the peculiarities of this world, Toomas' life revolves around his neighbor Eevi's house. Finally, the day has come when the woman arrives to have dinner with the man.
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
When the city goes dark - literally - newly divorced Andres is faced with painful choices: whether to give his children the chance to see their mother in another city, or to keep them away from a world that is falling apart by the hour.
A rural 19th-century family hears a pop song from the future. The more they listen, the greater the cost — a tale of greed, blindness, and the treasures we fail to see.
When 17-year-old Rein discovers a group of Estonian folk dancers practising in London, he joins them in secret knowing that his cool skateboarding friends would not approve of this hobby and new community of dance friends of various ages.
Jakop, a lone fisherman on the coast of lake Peipus has to decide whether refugees brought to his door are his way of redeeming past sins or merely a means to quickly earn much needed cash.
