
DOCUMENTARY

GENTLE WARRIORS
January 01, 2019
IN POST PRODUCTION
Gentle Warriors is a coming of age story about girls who become women in the most masculine of surroundings. Our country, Lithuania, has a border with Russia. The threat of possible war is in the air. Therefore, military conscription for men is reintroduced. Simultaneously, a small number of young women decide to voluntarily register for military service. We follow three of these girls for nine months as they live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base. In the beginning the girls exploit a fanciful idea of what it means to be a soldier. Their romantic visions of being a soldier are soon altered as they begin their service and their expectations are challenged by harsh reality. A transformation in each girl starts to appear. We see how a gentle girl learns that in order to survive in the outside world she has to develop a thick skin. In another instance, we observe a young woman – a tomboy - who discovers her vulnerable side and finds a boyfriend who is doing time in prison. Finally, there is the girl who enlisted with the hopes of finding a husband, but, with time, realizes that what she really wants is to be a soldier. In this completely observational documentary, we follow their lives before, during and after their military training. A juxtaposition of the past and present will reveal the characters both in the role of military fighters and that of complex individuals. By observing the physical and emotional transformation of our characters we witness the bearing of an independent woman who is responsible for her own faith and happiness.
Director: Marija Stonyte
Producer: Giedre Zickyte
Co-Producer: Vesilind OÜ
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

WONDERFUL LOSERS: A DIFFERENT WORLD
October 13, 2017
They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarious', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
Director: Arunas Matelis
Producer: Algimantė Matelienė
DOP: Mark Olexa, Ivars Zviedris, Simone Rivoire, Giordano Bianchi, Valdis Celmins, Andrius Kemežys, Giacomo Becherini, Paolo Beniti, Vincent O’Callaghan, Arūnas Matelis
Composer: Alberto R. Lucendo
Sound Designer: Raf Enckels
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov
WORLD PREMIERE in Varssavi Filmifestival, 14. oktoober 2017
AWARDS
WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL – BEST DOCUMENTARY 2017
MINSK LISTAPAD FILM FESTIVAL – GRAND-PRIX FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY 2018
MINSK LISTAPAD FILM FESTIVAL – AUDIENCE AWARD 2018
LITHUANIAN FILMMAKERS UNION AWARD – BEST LITHUANIAN FILM 2017
TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL – BEST DOCUMENTARY 2018
NATIONAL LITHUANIAN FILM AWARDS – BEST DOCUMENTARY 2018
NATIONAL LITHUANIAN FILM AWARDS – BEST COMPOSER 2018
NATIONAL LITHUANIAN FILM AWARDS – PEOPLE’S CHOICE 2018
BALTIJOS BANGA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – AUDIENCE AWARD 2018
ULJU MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL – BEST “EXPLORATION & ADVENTURE” FILM 2018

NOW OR NEVER
February 25, 2019
NFTS Gradshow sponsored by Netflix
Now Or Never tells the story of the Batang Toru Forest, which lies in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a forest like no other, and remains largely unexplored. Batang Toru is also the one and only home for the most endangered great ape species in the world – the newly identified Tapanuli Orangutans.
For thousands of years these orangutans have experienced a tranquil existence in this rich rainforest, alongside countless other fascinating species. The local people living adjacent to Batang Toru have also lived comfortably for generations, surviving from the precious water created by the forest. But now, everything is changing…
The global population is growing, and the natural world is suffering, including Batang Toru. Plans have been put in place for a human development to be built in the heart of Batang Toru, where the highest number of Tapanuli Orangutans reside. This development is estimated to be completed in the next few years. If it is built, it will affect countless human lives who rely on the forest, as well as indefinitely pushing this newly identified orangutan species closer towards extinction.
The time to act and save Batang Toru is NOW, OR NEVER again will we be living in a world with a third orangutan species.
Director: Matt Senior
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov
Sound Designer: Kevin Langhamer
Composer: Adam Price
Marketeer: Alex Chronopoulos

MIU
February 25, 2019
NFTS Gradshow sponsored by Netflix
These are the final days of Miu, a colorful young man who moved to London from Hong Kong to become an Architect/Artist. Combining dramatic recreations and interviews with the few people who knew him, 'Miu' is about the anonymity of being a foreigner in a big city and how easy it is to lose your way.
Director: Yael Lotem
DOP: Alana Mejia Gonzalez
Composer: Roshan Gunga
Sound Designer: Kevin Langhamer
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

AFTER THE SILENCE
November 01, 2017
After the Silence explores the spiritual impact of the forced disappearances that became endemic during Colombia’s civil conflict. It journeys into a world where government forensic investigators attempt to locate and exhume bodies from remote mountainside graves, where women remember and try to understand the loss of their relatives, and where nature itself has become the keeper of monstrous secrets.
As it immerses us in a world trying to overcome systemic violence, After the Silence invites us to reflect on mourning, history and death. If the mountains and rivers could speak, what secrets would they reveal?
Director: Natalie Cubides Brady
Sound Designer: Ines Andriana Alves
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

WOMAN AND A GLACIER
November 16, 2016
The Lithuanian scientist Aušra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tien Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and grey cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have changed. We see dripping, melting ice in imposing caves, streams flowing through desolate mountain passes, and Revutaite’s pets, playing together almost in silence. Living with Revutaite in the solitude she has chosen for herself, the two animals only have each other. The solemn silence of the mountains is punctuated sparingly by the music of a man far, far below, playing a traditional instrument.
Director: Audrius Stonys
Producer: Radvile Sumile, Studio UKU
Co-Producer: Vesilind OU
DOP: Audrius Kemezys
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov
Sound Designer: Seppo Vanhatalo
Composer: Robert Jürjendal
PREMIERE in IDFA, 17.november 2016
AWARDS
KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL (POLAND) - SILVER HORN PRIZE AND FIPRESCI PRIZE
DOCS BARCELONA (SPAIN) - WHAT THE DOC AWARD
SILVER CRANES, LITHUANIAN NATIONAL FILM AWARDS - BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
KINO PAVASARIS, FILM SPRING VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LITHUANIA BEST FILM IN BALTIC COMPETITION, AUDIENCE AWARD
LAGOV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (POLAND) - SILVER GRONO AWARD
VISIONS DU REEL (NYON) - CLOSING FILM
COME BACK FREE
November 17, 2016
A poetic documentary about life in a war torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison.
The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God.
Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business.
The Chechens’ parting words to one another are, “May you come back free!”
Director: Ksenia Okhapkina
Producer: Riho Västrik, Vesilind OÜ
DOP: Vitaly Afanasiev, Maksim Drozdov
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov
Composer: Robert Jürjendal
PREMIERE in IDFA, 18.november 2016
AWARDS
JURY SPECIAL PRIZE IN A MID-LENGTH CATEGORY, IDFA 2016
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE RUSSIAN GUILD OF CINEMA CRITICS, KAZAN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSLIM CINEMA 2017
XXVIII OPEN DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL "РОССИЯ": PRIZE FOR THE BEST FULL-LENGTH FILM AND PRIZE FOR THE CINEMATOGRAPHY

HEARTS OF SIRGALA
March 15, 2018
"Hearts of Sirgala" lead us to the extinct mines of Ida-Virumaa, which has left more than a thousand inhabitants in the past decade. Today in Sirgala apartment buildings less than 20 people are living all year round. One of the main characters in the film, the 85-year-old Anna lives and carries Sirgala's four-story apartment building, where only one resident lives today.
The ghostly steam spill between the houses is spiced by Sillamäe's social worker Galina, who creates a social center with Sirgala with the support of church members from Norway. The film combines Sirgala's past and present, harsh reality, and magnificent future hopes.
Director: Mirjam Matiisen
Producer: Kristjan Pütsep
DOP: Alis Mäesalu
Sound Designer / Composer: Ann Reimann
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

ASH MOUNTAINS
December 31, 2016
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population of the Ash Mountains has dropped by more than half, with no signs of growth or relief in sight. A place once known as the El Dorado of the proletariat has become synonymous with death and decay. However, legends remain: dwarves atop semi-coke mountains, exiles digging for forgiveness in pits, Mercedes-Cowboys roaming the night, and a magical bird, who must burn up to rise again.
Director: Ivar Murd
Producer: Margus Õunapuu
DOP: Madis Luik
Sound Desinger: Markku Tiidumaa
Composer: Endamisi Salamisi
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

GERASSIMOV'S WOMEN
December 30, 2016
In an Estonian town Narva, elderly Russian ladies meet in a park. Each of them has her own path that has led them to this war-scarred town. Today the border separating Estonia from Russia is running just a few hundred meters from their homes. Only nostalgic, haunting or funny memories take them back to the Soviet realities of their youth. On the park bench the past and the contemporary, the sacred and the profane, two states and regimes mix into a fluid called life.
Director: Birgit Rosenberg
DOP: Liis Lepik
Sound Designer: Janeli Adremann
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

CHRIST LIVES IN SIBERIA
January 27, 2015
The charismatic religious leader Vissarion lives in an isolated Siberian village and calls himself Christ who has reborn. A religious sect consisting of thousands of followers has gathered around him, including Dmitri the bellringer and his wife Sveta who moved to the community with her three children from Saint Petersburg a few years ago. Magomed, the biological father of the children, writes a complaint letter to the administration of the President of Russia and insists that his children should be given back to him. Director Arbo Tammiksaar with his family moved to the Vissarions' village for a year. He followed the daily life of Sveta's children in the paradise garden found in the middle of Siberian taiga. How do they grow up in a community with unusual convictions in a place far away from civilization?
Producer: Margus Õunapuu, Kaarle Aho
Co-Producers: Tuuli Roosma, Uku Toomet
Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi
DOP: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi, Meelis Veeremets, Madis Luik
Composer: Andre Pichen
Sound Designer: Markku Tiidumaa, Kaur Kask
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

LITTERING PROHIBITED
September 02, 2014
Lucavsala is an island almost in the center of Riga, in the middle of the Daugava River. In the 1930s, farms and cows were on the island. After the war, the island was divided into garden plots for Soviet large-scale workers. The spontaneous lifestyle in the Lucavsala Island Horticultural Opera opens through humorous details and contrasts. The protagonist Rasma, the 76-year-old horticulturist's self-proclaimed chairman, monitors compliance with the rules of charity, brings out lazy wines and drinks, collects taxes, and picks up his nose for foreign things. Now, however, real estate developers are keen to make the island a tourist attraction, where there are no pensioners or hippies who are aggressively struggling with the future of "Lat Vegas".
Producer: Antra Gaile, Jaak Kilmi
Director: Jaak Kilmi
DOP: Jaak Kilmi, Aigars Sermukss, Davis Dorss, Ulvis Burjans, Aleksandr Kheyfets
Sound Designer: Aleksandrs Vaicahovskis
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

PAPER TOWN
January 07, 2014
Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard. Mats is designing the future of it, and knocks down old red brick buildings. They both have a love for the town. Russia took over Narva from Sweden in the Great Northern War in 1704. Since then, the rule has been passed over six times. Not only on the border of Estonia and Russia, Narva is also on the cusp of the past and the future. This affectionate film brings the town to life in archive material, in models and architects’ sketches.
Producer:: Jaak Kilmi
Director: Jaak Kilmi
Script: Andres Keil, Jaak Kilmi
DOP: Ivar Taim, Jaak Kilmi, Siim Sillamaa
Composer: Janek Murd
Sound Designer: Tarvo Schmeimann
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov

WHY DID YOU GET MARRIED
November 30, 2012
Documentary "Why did you get married?" opens up the world of three young couples who are in the beginning of their marriage. Authors dilemma about her own relationship takes her to a journey to find answers.This is a story about falling in love, balance in a relationship, growing together and it's difficulties.
Director: Anniken Haldna
DOP: Janis Jurkovskis
Sound Designer: Ranno Tislar
Editor: Mirjam Jegorov, Kätlin Luht