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Snowbirds

Original title: Kliimapagulased

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

The Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series have made Ave Nahkur one of the best known naivist artists in her homeland. For years she and her partner Imre have run an art café in Raudoja and been active in the field of tourism and art. Lively and straightforward Ave hates cold and dark winter and the depression that comes with it. At one moment things have gone so bad that she decides to make a turn in her life and move to a mountain village in La Gomera, one of the Spain's Canary Islands. Making a new ...
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Writer's life

Original title: Kirjaniku elu

2014 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Tõnu Aru, Eve Ester

The documentary introduces writer Arvo Valton and meetings with him in 2008-2014.

The recurring theme in the documentary lies in brief meetings with writer Arvo Valton and his companions at various moments in his life. The filmmakers have recorded the writer's birthday party in the Writers' House, Tallinn; his home in Märjamaa; and his conversations with Sirje Kiin. Valton explains his world views and tells about his life as a writer. Valton's wife Tiina Vallikivi has always been supportive and understanding, a true fairy of the big family. Writing is Arvo Valton's passion and freedom.
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The End of Milk

Original title: Piimariik

2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur-Paul Põldma

The owner of a small dairy farm holds old-fashion cow keeping in esteem and goes to sell milk himself.

Today's milk production in Estonia moves to the direction of big cattles and automated farms. Rein Külama still runs the archaic small diary farm. Together with his wife they take care of their cattle themselves and sell milk to people. Already for the past twenty years Rein has had a ritual – twice a week he drives through Maardu and former summer cottages district in order to sell milk. Despite the fact that there are raw milk automatic stations in supermarkets, the old-fashioned milk selling still has its magic and the clientele.
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Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Kirovi nim kalurikolhoosi lastesanatooriumis

1979 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Valeria Anderson
Kaubalaev Jaan Anvelt

1977 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Julia Guteva
Võrkpalliturniir noortele

1973 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Valeria Anderson
Nõukogude Eesti

1969 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director:
The white land of Enderby

Original title: Enderby valge maa

1969 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt, Mati Kask

Documentary by Andres Sööt and Mati Kask portrays Antarctic expeditions and its polar stations in 1968-1969.

When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1968 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Reet Kasesalu