Rein Raamat

An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa.

A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game.

Soviet Estonian animation about a brave young man seeking a magic ring.

An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.

A comedy about two friends who made a bet over a rare postmark.

During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to the mansion from time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?

A black/white world, slow heavy labor, each frame crossfaded into the next.

One morning little Peter finds that he's all alone in the world

The story of a bunch of peasants who have a hard time using logic to build their community.

When a young man literally crosses the line, he pays the price and is transformed into the little piggy wiggy he truly is.

A collection of three short stories: "Veekandja," "Armastab!," and "Tüütu muusik."

A short Estonian animation about a man's desire to fly.

A short animated film about horrors of urbanized city.

A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colors, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.

The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who's knocking on Heaven's door to collect his share of souls: there will be no more souls, as God has come to doubt if humans are really meant to achieve salvation. If they aren't then how can they be punished posthumous and sent to Hell? There's only one way to make sure if sinning is the human nature, or is it that they simply don't want to better themselves - Devil himself must go down to Earth, in human form, and if he can achieve salvation then so can a human being... Based on A. H. Tammsaare's classic novel of the same name.

Jaak is a young labourer always facing some kind of issues and it seems he always rides for a fall. At the construction work of a new thermal power station, Jaak meets young people from the Young Communist League who won't find faults with him and are ready to help him out.

The film consists of two short stories. "Shadow" explores the struggle between good and evil within human character and emphasizes the need for an uncompromising stance against wrongdoing. "The Road" condemns those who embody a petty bourgeois mentality in society.

An animation based on Estonian fairy tale "Nukitsamees"

A whale-hunter dodges icebergs while tracking his prey.

Tõnu, student of agronomy, is a trainee at a flourishing collective farm. He finds out that there are many talented singers there among whom there is Malle with a specially beautiful voice. However, the local community club is closed and the singing ground has been turned into a pasture. Malle's father is the manager of the collective farm and considers singing a waste of time. When the collective farmers hear about Tõnu's conducting skills, they will act against the manager's will. The big song festival is going to be held soon and people want to go there. Preparations of the choir go well; however, the manager of the collective farm gives no permission to take part in the festival. Singers are losing their hope, but then comes a helping hand.

The parable of a monstrously large bull that was raised by villagers, who did not know how dearly it would cost them.

Mari has successfully led a collective farm in 1950s and fulfilled all tasks given from the authorities. Nonetheless, things in the collective farm become progressively worse. The Committee of the Communist Party sends its representative Peeter who learns that Mari acts as a tyrant for the local people. She has to resign during the elections of the new manager. Being without authority has a damaging effect on her so she starts to regain her position with the help of her old stalinist tricks.