IDFA - International Documentary Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.
"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.
Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. It is the story of an encounter, a story of a space at the beginning of the end.
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.
A story of the fragile Woman and the eternal Glacier.
Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.
Maher, a former political prisoner, an electrical engineer by profession, but an artist at heart, a man who starts a quest against the society, cultural norms and his family in order to stage the first original contemporary dance performance in Palestinian history.
The Tallinn - Kaliningrad bus crosses three borders during one night. Estonian - Latvian, Latvian - Lithuanian and Lithuanian - Russian. It rides on the territories of four countries. The reason for the film about this bus is, at the very lest, because things are not as they were some times ago (during the USSR) and will not be like that in the not so distant future (when the three Baltic States will be in the EU).
Playful documentary by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma about the development of their generation during the Soviet era where the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture and the Finnish Television was the window to the world of dreams.
Belarusian director Juri Hashtshevatski's documentary about the presidential elections in Belarus in 2006, the resistance by opposition and dictator Lukashenko's dirty tricks.
Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.
The Tallinn - Kaliningrad bus crosses three borders during one night. Estonian - Latvian, Latvian - Lithuanian and Lithuanian - Russian. It rides on the territories of four countries. The reason for the film about this bus is, at the very lest, because things are not as they were some times ago (during the USSR) and will not be like that in the not so distant future (when the three Baltic States will be in the EU).
Retired Esja Šur, a Russian citizen living in Sillamäe, Estonia spends her elderly days while organizing demonstrations, meetings and pickets.
Portrait documentary by Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi observes the parallel lives of two opposite women - Anne Eenpalu, the leader of "Home Daughters" and Tiina Jantson, activist in Estonian beauty contests. Both women take care of cultivating beauty in Estonia in their own way.
A film about an elderly Russian woman who was an industrial worker in Estonia. Despite her hard existence and horrible working conditions she trusts in God and human cordiality. The film is part of a series of portraits by the Lintrups (who also made cogito, ergo sumof elderly and somewhat strange Estonians that relate the history of this small ethnic group.