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Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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Springtime Wonderband

Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.
Taxi-Driver

Original title: Taksojuhid

2004 | TV feature | Director: Ingomar Vihmar, Jussi Niilekselä
The Rich of Spirit

Original title: Hing on sees

2004 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Young people with intellectual disability perform both real and imaginary situations in their psychodrama group.

Some people are born with unfair destinies - they won't be healthy and strong. We are all different when it comes to our corporal or intellectual existence; yet, our emotional self is more or less the same. Kristiina, Triinu, Leena, Aivar, Kristo and Slava are young people in their early twenties with intellectual disability. They have grown up in an orphanage and been close all their lives. In 2004, Aivar Simmermann, a story theatre director, used the method of psychodrama in order to help the young people to perform moments from their lives and about their dreams. The stories were ...
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Travelling Potters

Original title: Potisetod tulevad

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary about the cheerful journey of potters on horse carriages along the Seto region in Estonia to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu, South Estonia.

Cheerful and fast-paced documentary about the potters from Seto region having a jolly journey on horse carriages through Setoland to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu. In summers of 2002 and 2003, boys loaded the horse carriages full of Seto pottery and rode with the cartload from village to village as ancient Seto people. They did so in order to sell or exchange pottery items for food, accommodation and clothes, to acknowledge the presence of Seto people and look for the traces of former Seto potters as well as to collect the folklore and traditions.
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Beyond the Water

Original title: Teisel pool vett

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liia Sakkos
Smiling Women

Original title: Naeratavad naised

2003 | Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Kihnu is an island of women since they have always maintained optimism and households in that island.

There is hardly any other place like Kihnu island where the women in national costumes ride motorbikes while running their daily chores. Life together with fishermen who are always away at sea has made the women of the island to become independent. Despite their men are absent the women still hold a dance festival - the women of Kihnu island dance with themselves.
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King for a Day

Original title: Kuningas üheks päevaks

2002 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary by Peeter Urbla about Aare Hõrn, owner of Mihkli Farm, and about his activities as Seto King.

Documentary follows the activities of Aare Hõrn - King of the Seto region, owner of Mihkli Farm and development adviser of Meremäe rural municipality - and has been recorded during the celebrations of the Seto Kingdom days, Passover, Christmas and Easter in Obinitsa, Antkruva, Värska, Võru, Luhamaa and Seto villages from August 2000 till October 2001.
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Como cierva sedienta

1999 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The concert recording of composer Arvo Pärt's musical work "Como cierva sedienta" in Estonia Concert Hall.

Singer Patricia Rozario and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste) perform the musical work "Como cierva sedienta" by Arvo Pärt in Tallinn Estonia Concert Hall on March 29, 1999.
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 3. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 3. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Film introducing the life of expatriate Estonians living in Adelaide, capital of South Australia.

Monument of William Light, the founder of the city of Adelaide. The city is known for its greenery and sandy beaches. Also, one of the largest communities of expatriate Estonians in Australia lives here. Ilmar Mägraken, chairman of the board of the Association of Estonian Unions in Australia, introduces his hobby - lawn bowls. There are large tennis and lawn bowls grounds at Marryatville Club, Kensington. Men playing. Heino Sommer, chairman of the Estonian house in Adelaide, introduces the history of the building - the house was bought in 1958, it was renovated and additional buildings were constructed. The great ...
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