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Evi Tihemets

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary directed by Rein Raamat about Evi Tihemets, an outstanding graphic artist.

Evi Tihemets (1932) has been among the leading graphic artists in Estonia for a half of century. She has practised various techniques, most of all colourful lithography, soft-ground etching, intaglio printing techniques as well as mixed techniques. TIhemets has created miniature graphic art, portrays as well as monumental art, illustrated books and started silk printing in Estonia. Her work still surprises with creative joy and fresh ideas. Tihemets's artwork has been shown at more than thirty personal exhibitions that has given her several domestic and international art awards. The documentary tells the story about Estonian female artist with a long ...
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Man from the City of Masters

Original title: Mees meistrite linnast

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary portrait by Peeter Brambat about Ants VIidalepp, an elderly painter and professor emeritus.

Professional artist Ants Viidalepp (1921-2012) was 85 at the time of filming the documentary. He is known for younger generations mostly because of his books of recollections. At his exhibition "Fifty Viidalepps" held in Viinistu Art Museum in the spring of 2006, the artist showed his grotesque, folksy small-format oil paintings. Viidalepp's works often depict cartoonish funny stories where the characters wear festive clothes from the early 20th century whil looking simple-minded and happy. Every picture has its own strange everyday fabula just like the artist's endless recollective stories that he tells to accompany his work.
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Pärnography

Original title: Mees animatsoonist

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hardi Volmer

"Pärnography" is a great introduction to the works of Pärn and serves as a great portrait film about the 'man from animazone'.

Priit Pärn is an animator of international renown, graphic artist, caricaturist and book illustrator whose works are utterly grotesque, absurd and funny. Additionally, they are critical of the society, piercing the deepest levels of human consciousness. A closer examination of Pärn and other Estonian animators reveals that Estonia was not sung or fought to freedom. It was liberated via animation!
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An Invitation to the Eternal City

Original title: Kutse igavesse linna

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

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.

Einar Laigna (1937) is a multifaceted man with an aristocratic attitude. He can be called a philosopher, a cultural historian, a theologian, a military historian, a soldier and a blacksmith. Laigna sincerely talks about himself and his development as a personality. His comprehensive monologue expresses self-confidence and total self-assurance. As the chief inspector of Estonian defence army, Laigna positions himself between the attitudes of a soldier, a priest, a philosopher, a wizard, a king and an artisan while defining the world and himself.
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Voldemar Väli

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat
Orgulas - pilguheit möödunule

2001 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õie Orav
Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

Original title: Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Sculptor Maire Männik started her sculpture studies in Estonia but during the war she moved to France and her artwork was mostly created in Paris.

Estonian sculptor Maire Männik (1922-2003) started her art studies in Estonia; however, during the war she had to move to France and her artwork was created mainly abroad, in Paris. Filmmaker Rein Raamat has followed the artist working in her studio in Paris and sharing her thoughts. Commentaries by Harri Liivrand, Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar and French art historian Emmanuelle Corcellet-Prévost. The film also serves as a farewell to Marie Männik who passed away in 2003.
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The Vicar of Halliste

Original title: Halliste kirikuõpetaja

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

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.

Kalev Raave (1926-2004) was a journalist, a functionary of the Estonian Communist Party, head of Võrtsjärve collective farm and Otepää sovkhoz and head of the Youth Theatre. When he was 62 years old, he became a church minister. With his rich life experience and natural kindness, Kalev Raave won people's hearts and he started to restore Halliste church in Viljandi county, Estonia. He had experienced numerous miracles in his life. Miracle perception was one of the possible connections with God for Kalev Raave - without a miracle one won't be able to perceive the otherworldly.
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Private life

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin
My Life is an Open Book

1997 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks