religion
A powerful journey to the heart of Indonesia’s Sumba island, where an activist confronts centuries-old traditions to rescue an 8-year-old child from servitude.
Film shows one day of the life of religious jewish family.
Kätlin Palmsalu's personal short documentary reflects on faith, creation and growing up. The film uses material accumulated during studies.
This film follows a woman- Nele, who is a high school teacher, parenting lecturer, and also a member of the Catholic church organization called Opus Dei. This documentary gives us an insight how she balances that lifestyle and what is the deeper meaning of it.
Action film about the family relationships of drug dealers in the 90ies.
A short poetic exploration of the duality of anger and fear in the contemporary world we live in.
The angel will guide us.
An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.
An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.
An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.
Religion-themed TV series pilot episode.
This film is about Marju Lepajõe, who was a classical philologist, a religious historian and a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tartu. With a witty charm, Marju reflects on the modern world, where the need and the ability to deal with a subject matter in depth have become insignificant.
Ancient philosophy meets futuristic religion in a story of womanhood, happiness and independent thinking.
A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.
The story about change, in a persons life. Hitting rock-bottom due to alcohol abuse. Finding an escape through religion.
Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.
Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.
This is a movie telling the story of all the Turkish boys becoming men.
Toomas is an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who is deeply commited to music. He expresses that commitment through his job as an ethno and reggae music DJ in clubs and radio.
A young girl thinks that she has become pregnant from God. How does the world take the news that doesn't believe in miracles?
Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.
“Happy Birthday” is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot.
The drama directed by Sulev Keedus tells about Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja who has been sent to the Afghanistan War many years ago and who has converted to Islam there. While returning to Estonia, he will face a completey different kind of war.
The symbolistic grotesque directed by Veiko Õunpuu is telling the story of a successful man in his mid-life crisis who is suffering moral issues. One of the most successful festival films in Estonia.
Film director Vallo Kepp has gathered original materials of his film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes".
One night weird figures gather on the Karahundzhi Plateau. They are the figures of God created by Man in different times and cultures. According to Tibetan monks, writing down all the names of God will bring about the end of the world.
This is the second feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet telling the story about two girls in their teens searching for identity and discovering friendship and love.
An hour with the amazingly multifaceted Einar Laigna, who clearly and emphatically discusses life’s basic values with the viewer, at a time when ethics tend to be lost from our lives. And thus, the message that he sends to Estonians and other people who love their land is that today is more important than ever before.
The romantic drama directed by Arvo Iho is based on the novel "The Heart of the Bear" by Nikolai Baturin and tells about a young hunter Niika who finds and loses himself and his love in a Siberian taiga.
Short film directed by Ervin Õunapuu about guilt, penitence and redemption.
The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.
In the area surrounding the Dominican monastery in the heart of Tallinn, unique spiritual and cultural life has emerged that influences the entire city.
Estonian National Male Choir performs at the religious service in Toronto church in the spring of 1989, before the Easter Sunday.
An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.
Pastor Harri Mõtsnik emigrated to Sweden from Estonia. Together with rural dean Voldemar Takkel he serves the congregation during the service at St. Michael's Church, Uppsala on October 23, 1988.
Participants in the 4th Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in Uppsala, July 1968.
People arriving at the World Congress of Lutheran Church in Stockholm.
Gathering of the bible translation committee of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockholm, family Koolmeister's home in Västerås.
Reunion of the Diocesan Council of Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockholm and Estonian song festival in Gothenburg.
The first meeting of the Bible Committee of Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockholm in 1956 and the meeting in Västerås in 1957.