Rain, the older brother of Ats, a 11-year old kid growing up in a small seaside town, returns to the family home, where their authoritarian father Kalju and a mother on the verge of losing love are waiting. Ats is witness to the clash of two men, a father and a brother, two stubborn men from different generations with different views of the world.
We have reached 1942. After the Reds retreat, the German regime has taken over Estonia. Despite the change of power, human nature remains the same - they love, party, quarrel and reconcile. A tale starts with the return of Arno Tali's son, Arnold. This blows up a passionate love triangle between the young people of Paunvere.
“There lived” tells a story of eleven high school youngsters who seek shelter from a sudden storm during a school field trip. Finding an abandoned house, the youngsters decide to wait out the storm together. The eery room brings out conflicts and deep desires within them, but worse is yet to come when the house reveals its own unpleasant surprises.
Intent on repairing a rift in their relationship, Anna and Juhan retreat to a seaside house lent to them by well-heeled friends. After witnessing an accident on rocky shore, they take in a wounded woman and her husband – a couple they find they have a lot in common with.
Mattias is a young talented photographer in his final year of secondary school, who has a dream to become a student of the Berlin Arts Academy. He unexpectedly falls in love with a wild redhaired beauty Hanna, who does not seem to take him seriously unless he proves to be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is.
A small farm community is on the brink of getting swallowed by raging war. Lives of the frightened locals get shaken by the arrival of two men on the run from the mysterious, apparently vengeful Peedu. Following events delve into the fine ties of human relationships and the meaning of individual existence lurking behind them.
Last fall the third-year film students received a task to search for the spirit of an era that dates back at least 100 years. It was searched from Narva and Vilsandi, bogs and swamps, manors and farms. One can meet prophets and madmen, stubborn students, tortured men and longing women, werewolves, spiders and a donkey along the way.
