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A poetic documentary exploring the mysterious world of ticks, their role in the ecosystem, and their unsettling parallels with humanity’s impact on nature.
Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power.
How to find your way home, when all bridges have been burned?
A devoted village priest falls into the grip of online gambling, jeopardizing his faith, church, and family. To save the crumbling church, Father Koit’s daughter Maria must face her father’s false god - Mighty Zeus.
Paradise is not just given. Paradise must be fought for.
About being human and remaining human even in the most hopeless moment. The short documentary was completed as part of Arts of Survival Documentaries programme within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 project.
Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Documentary film about Covid19 and medical treatment related to Covid19.
Russian guard Aleksei risks his life, to save an Estonian girl who the KGB is planning to capture for singing outside the prison where he works.
The documentary explores the life of an elderly woman who serves as a simultaneous interpreter at Oliviste Church, translating services from Estonian into Russian, highlighting her dedication, deep faith, and inspiring role within the church community.
Documentary about Oleg, who grew up in a criminal environment. While he is talking about his life, we see him in his workshop making picture frames and then helping with welding something in another workshop.
Kätlin Palmsalu's personal short documentary reflects on faith, creation and growing up. The film uses material accumulated during studies.
On Spain’s Costa del Sol a Finnish family abandoned by a crime boss take their own back by stealing the haul of a major heist.
When no public recognition at home, a gospel band Robirohi plans the tour to the source of gospel music, to perform at the halls of fame in Kentucky, USA.
A glimpse to the life of a young boy, living with difficulties, but also an immersely creative mind.
Captain Fyodor Volkonogov, a well-respected and obedient USSR law enforcer, witnesses his peers being suspiciously questioned. Sensing his turn is approaching, he escapes and is soon on the run, hunted by his former colleagues. Vulnerable and hopeless, Fyodor comes to realize what he had been part of, and that repentance is the only way for him to escape the eternal torment of Hell. But time is running out and the manhunt is closing in on him...
Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.
A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.
Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...
A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.
In this road film the main character Keiu Virro sets on a journey for the sixth and for the last time. We witness what happens to a modern person on a historical religious way.
A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.
A story of an old man and his silent journey through the Eastern Europe.
An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.
The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.
The angel will guide us.
Young startup entrepreneur Õie and a serial failure Tõnu follow their crazy ride from Estonia all the way to Silicon Valley — and back.
A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.
A film about Tõnis Mägi and his music.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.
Lauri Lagle's first feature film is profound and smooth like a summer's night. It is a physical progression and a mental journey towards something other than a mere geographical location on a map.
Life finds a way.
A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.
A mother and daughter with a painful past go to a monastery in Thailand together. Will the 26 days of silence filled with strict meditation help them to make peace with their past?
Two men’s journeys take them through the ups and downs of life. One of them has changed into a woman and the other into a monk. Will they find the magnetic forces they need to turn on the perpetuum mobile that will help them find someone to share their lives with and somewhere to belong?
A heartbreaking short film, where you find apocalyptic horror and motherly tenderness. Film speaks about principles of obligations and responsibility and confrontation of faith and disappointment. It`s a metaphor for mother`s strength.
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.
There is no space for secrets.
Short documentary, by Maria Aua, is a story about a pastor who takes fatherly care of man crushed by life at Christian centre called Samaria.
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.
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.