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Tashi Delek!

2015 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Rebane

A young monk`s journey through Tibet in search of his path.

Tashi Delek! is a coming of age story of Tashi. On a wider scale, it is a story about a small nation struggling to keep its identity since opening ofborders 22 years ago. It is a universal story about the conflict between spiritualism and materialism. Tashi is a normal 17 year old teenager who loves to play football and basketball, have fun with his friends and listen to pop music. He is also a monk studying at Pema Tsal Sakya Buddhist Monastery, sent here by his parents at the age of 6. Soon, Tashi faces the mostimportant decision in his life — whether to ...
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Whitsunday At Tammealuse

Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer. Whitsunday is known in folk memory as an important holiday for country folk and merry spring holiday that has been celebrated in Estonia through the ages to greet the arriving summer. Whitsunday (or Whitsun, Whit) involved many traditional preparatory activities - tidying the home and its surroundings, decorating with birches, going to the sauna. The celebration itself took place at the nearest sacred Grove, where a swing was set up and a bonfire made. ...
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A Dozen Questions about Estonia: Inevitable

Original title (in Estonian): "Vältimatu"

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

“A Dozen Questions about Estonia“ introducing Estonia and the nature of Estonians through the 12 short films.

Short film „Inevitable“ is based on the question „What does an Estonian do at weekends?“ and tells a story inspired by this question.
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Inside the Tribal Experience Transmedia Project

BFM Crossmedia Production (MA)

2014 | Students film, Documentary, Advertising/Promotion | Director: Nansy Mass, Kadri-Liis Piirsalu

Inside the Tribal Experience is an immersive online experience that explores the Estonian tradition of singing- and Song Celebrations through the voices and ideas of Estonians. The online experience combines together documentary videos, interviews, photos, user generated content, soundscapes and interactive data on an HTML5 site.

Inside the Tribal Experience project gives an opportunity to explore the true nature of Estonians as a tribe and the singing tradition that they carry. The project will give the user an opportunity to dig deeper and learn about the sacred rituals and traditions of the Estonian tribe while being entertained and educated at the same time. The project is an online experience that explores the different traditions of the singing tribe, by combining together videos, interviews, photos, soundscapes and interactive data on a HTML5 Hub-site, which is a prototype. This prototype is accompanied by an audio-visual trailer that presents ...
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Charm of Sacred Groves

Original title: Hiite lummus

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary by Rein Maran about oak groves in Estonia - local holy places of nature and cultural heritage.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia, the ancient holy places of nature. Groves were protected by the religious customs of rural people and its natural environment stayed intact. This way, every grove formed into an original ecosystem due to local conditions of climate, water and soil. Many groves are well-preserved today, some of them, however, are completely gone except a few landscape marks left behind of its existence. The main value of Estonian nature gradually opens up - the variety of the nature surrounding us. Unfortunately, we are not always able to understand the value as ...
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To Breathe as One

Original title: Üheshingamine

2013 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty
Women Fishers

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ilker Tüsümel

The movie tells the story of two women Fishers living on an island of Turkey.

The film is about two women fisher who are living in Golyazi island in Turkey. The film is kind of a profile of these two women fisher Nermin and Fadime. Through the film we see and learn about themselves, their lifestyle, their culture and the island.
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Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys

Original title: Tantsud Linnuteele. Pildistusi Lennart Meri filmirännakutelt

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaak Lõhmus
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Strays

Original title in Estonian: Krantsid

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Sutharsan Bala
Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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