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Ruhnu reis ehk Eesti saare eripära

2020 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego
Kihnu poisid ning tüdrukud

2019 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director:
Ott Tänak -The Movie

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Tarvo Mölder

The film portrays Estonian rally driver Ott Tänak, one of the most elusive athletes in the eyes of the media with highly reclusive character. His self-willed tenacity has forged this stubborn country boy with a roller coaster career into a driven WRC-pilot who for the first time has in reach the fulfilment of his childhood dream – to snatch the world championship title from the equally hungry competitors.

The film portrays Estonian rally driver Ott Tänak, one of the most elusive athletes in the eyes of the media with highly reclusive character. Viewers gain rare access in the course of one season to root for Ott’s pursuit for the WRC rallying series world championship title and simultaneously witness him getting accustomed to the new car in the new team. Through the eyes of the top driver whose daily routine sees him race at deadly speeds all over the globe, both the nail-biting and the glamorous life of the rallying world is seen. In parallel with the ups and ...
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Class Reunion 2: A Wedding And A Funeral

Original title - Klassikokkutulek 2: Pulmad ja matused

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

The sequel to one of the most loved Estonian comedy films sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart, Andres and Toomas. This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead.

This is a blunt comedy in the best sense with treasured Estonian actors, telling a story about life itself and much more. The sequel to film "Class Reunion" sees the return of the three high-school friends Mart (Mait Malmsten), Andres (Ago Anderson) and Toomas (Henry "Genka" Kõrvits). This time they are planning a memorable stag party for Toomas, but due to unexpected turn of events end up at a funeral instead. It has been two years since the first Class Reunion film and our three friends have all reached new stages in their lives. The rock star Toomas has finally ...
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Engagement in Kihnu island

Original title: Kihnu kosjad

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

Engagement according to the traditions and customs of Kihnu island, Estonia. The documentary introduces the engagement rites in their most natural environment.

Kihnu is a very small island in the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Meelis and Raili will get married soon. They decide to follow their ancestors' traditions, customs and rites and plan their wedding party accordingly. All traditional wedding-related activities and rites are accompanied by music, dancing and colourful jokes common to the islanders.
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Two-Faced Island

Original title: Kahe näoga saar

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kerttu Soans

Tanja lives on Vormsi island for the second winter. Every morning she opens the door of the village shop for the visitors, either for one or one hundred people.

Vormsi island lives by its own laws. In summer the island bursts with life, in winter there is almost nothing going on. Tanja, the village shopkeeper, came to live on the island a few years ago. Together with her husband Ervin who is a ship's cook they live in Rumpo village close to the coast. The village shop is always the midpoint of the island; every morning at 8am Tanja opens the casement windows and the door despite the season. Will there be anyone coming in today? Will there be a few hundred visitors?
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 8

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 8. film

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Film introducing the culture life of expatriate Estonians in Adelaide and the nature of Southern Australia.

The rich greenery of the surroundings of Adelaide. A paddle boat that was used in early 20th century is standing at the port of a small town Goolwa. This part of local history is preserved for the future generations. The ferry rides across the Murray River and docks at the shore. Views of Goolwa. The first train carriage that rode between Goolwa-Port Elliot in 1854 is exhibited. Ocean shore and the train station in Port Elliot. Indra Reinpuu's home, his wife Karin Foxwell practises massage and aromatherapy. Indra Reinpuu plays one of the national instruments of native Australians - a ...
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Our Russians

Original title: Meie venelased

1991 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peeter Simm

Documentary by Peeter Simm about Russians - the biggest national minorities in Estonia.

Documentary about people who live next to us, Estonians. Some of them have moved to Estonia only a few years ago; however, ancestors of other immigrants have lived here for several generations. Estonia has become their native country. What do the Russians - both academicians and workers, old and young, atheists and religious people - actually think about life in Estonia in early 1990s. Old Believers located by Peipsi Lake, former marine Anatoli Filippov, doctor Yuri Zabalevich, artist Igor Balashov, restorer Yuri Kostin, sociologist Dimitri Mikhailov and others share their thoughts about local life and relations to local people.
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On the Border of Two Worlds

Title in Estonian: Katõ ilma veere pääl

1990 | Documentary | Director: Karl Kello

Documentary directed by Karl Kello, Kuldar Sink and Aare Hõrn about the Seto people living on the border of two worlds, two cultures and two religions, the East and the West.

Mighty kings and seven hundred years of great wars could not destroy the small Seto nation, even if the fifty years of the Soviet regime has been extremely hard. After World War 2, the ancient habitat of Setu peoples - Pechorsky district that had belonged to the first Republic of Estonia – was annexed to Russia. Half of the Seto population of five thousand people remained in Estonia and the other half in Russia. The life of both halves has been very different. And despite that the small nation attemps to preserve their mentality and language, religious traditions, to cherish ...
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Vormsi päevad

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Olav Kruus
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