praying
How to find your way home, when all bridges have been burned?
Home. Your home. Your place. Your memories. Your belongings. In the blink of eye, it’s gone.
Maimu is fighting with a demon who tries to take over her soul. The only way for her to win this battle is to make an effort an heal her body covered by scars, bruises and self-abuse.
A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.
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.
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
Dreams are like weeds that despite mowing keep on growing.
Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.
A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.
Ibrahim is a shepherd whose job is to look after his herd as best as he can. One day he receives a phone call from his brother with a plan he wants to hear nothing about.
Stained glass artist fights for her existence and for new orders. Looking back to her long life, she investigates her current situation and motives of her creativeness.
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?
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival.
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.
The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.
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.
Vyacheslav Bihun's documentary about a sacred place called Sanctuarium.
A young monk`s journey through Tibet in search of his path.
Director Arbo Tammiksaar together with his family moved to live in a Vissarions' village in Siberia for a year, in order to follow the daily life of the religious community.
Two lonely young people are travelling together in the bleak Patagonian desert, searching for themselves and one another.
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.
Portrait documentary by Sulev Keedus about the scum of the Russian community in Narva - the young people with asocial background who lack courage, hope and will to get out of their hopeless situation.
One woman with two controversial professions - a criminal investigator and a religious minister.
Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.
Portrait about Nadezhda, a street musician and a mother of nine, whose songs are full of love.
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.
Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.
“THIS IS THE DAY” captures the flow and simple beauty of daily life in a monastery standing on a hill above the Serbian village of Velika Hoca in Kosovo.
This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.
Portrait documentary directed by Artur Talvik about Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto and about his difficult journey towards the highest rank of Japanese sumo wrestling.
Portrait documentary directed by Rein Raamat about Evi Tihemets, an outstanding graphic artist.
War cameraman Ivar Heinmaa defies danger and death while working in the various crisis areas in the world.
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.
During his unfair imprisonment in the Soviet Estonia a head of sovkhoz gets a divine revelation and he will enter a deal with God in order to set himself free.
Autobiographical documentary about Edvard Oja's fight with alcoholism.
Feature film debut by director Andres Puustusmaa, a fantasy sketch based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel"The Dwarf"– a story about dwarf in a man.
In the area surrounding the Dominican monastery in the heart of Tallinn, unique spiritual and cultural life has emerged that influences the entire city.
The drama directed by Tõnu Virve is based on the play "Lukas" by Icelandic writer Gudmundur Steinsson, telling the story about an elderly couple dedicated to serving their son.
The first full-length feature film directed by Tõnu Virve is a collection of fragments inspired by the painting "Danse Macabre" ("Dance of Death") by Lübeck painter Bernt Notke, telling the speculated version of the painting's journey to Tallinn.
Demonstration on Black Ribbon Day in Canada on August 23rd 1991 for supporting and acknowledging the independence of the Baltic States and other countries.
Linda Lippert, resident of Tartu, recalls of the March deportation that took place 40 years ago.