saying a prayer
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?
Documentary explores the war in Ukraine through frontline civilians and everyday Ukrainians. Filmmaker and reserve officer Ilmar Raag volunteers to deliver aid deep into Ukraine’s warzones. The people he meets are different, but they all fight for Ukraine.
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.
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.
Tales of a Toy Horse is a film about being human and its possibility even when there is war around you.
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.
Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.
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?
A blacksmith battling a severe disease begins the last great job of his life - the creation of a sword made of Damascus steel.
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.
Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.
Belarusian director Juri Hashtshevatski's documentary about the presidential elections in Belarus in 2006, the resistance by opposition and dictator Lukashenko's dirty tricks.
In the area surrounding the Dominican monastery in the heart of Tallinn, unique spiritual and cultural life has emerged that influences the entire city.
Festive dinner in Toronto held in honor of the restoration of independence of the Baltic states.
Demonstration on Black Ribbon Day in Canada on August 23rd 1991 for supporting and acknowledging the independence of the Baltic States and other countries.
Festive celebration of the 71st anniversary of the Republic of Estonia in 1989 in the hall of Toronto University in Canada, prayer is said by the archbishop of the EELC Udo Petersoo and greetings are passed by the Latvian and Lithuanian representatives.
Festive celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, in November 1988.
The national flag of Estonia is consecrated by North-American bishop Karl Raudsepp at St. Andrew's Church in Toronto. Sermon is held by dean Udo Petersoo.
Celebrating the 69th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia in St Michael's Church and in the congregration house in Uppsala on February 22, 1987.
Church service for the Estonian congregation in St. Michael's Church, Uppsala, in February 1987. Service is held by church minister Voldemar Takkel and organist Enn Maripuu.
The anniversary of the Republic of Estonia is being celebrated near Toronto Town Hall in 1986.