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The Highway Crossing

Original title: Ristumine peateega

1999 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arko Okk

The debut feature film directed by Arko Okk is based on the play "The Highway Crossing aka the Fairytale of the Golden Fish". The film with a witty dialogue and unexpected chain of events tells the story of a miracle, money, and happiness. Both the visual and conceptual content of the film make allusions to Tarkovsky's "Stalker".

Osvald is a silk painter living in solitude. When Laura and Roland knock at Osvald's door one late night, he realizes that long-awaited happiness has finally reached him. Osvald offers Roland a billion dollars for Laura. The young couple becomes tempted by the money; but this is a temptation that they have never faced before. The practical compromises for fulfilling their wishes will turn out illusory for all the three.
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Aria

Original title: Aaria

1997 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ervin Õunapuu

Debut film by Ervin Õunapuu about a reclusive baron who loses his sense of reality in his oppressive solitude.

What will happen to a person who has lived alone for too long? What will happen to his head and his life when he dedicates himself to one opera aria, alcohol and playing with paper dolls? When a random stranger gets involved in his night-time melomaniac orgy and two different worlds meet, the situation will get out of control.
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Lauluväljak

1988 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
8th Latvian Song Festival in Toronto 6 July 1986 1/2

Title in Estonian: Kanada lätlaste 8. laulupidu Torontos 1/2

1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The procession of the song festival of expatriate Latvians in Canada held in central Toronto on July 6, 1986.

The procession of the 8th song festival of expatriate Latvians in Canada, held in central Toronto on July 6, 1986. The festival is dedicated to the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Saule. The brass band leads the procession, followed by choirs and dance groups, everyone wearing Latvian national costumes. Latvian groups from USA (from Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, NYC etc.) have joined the Canadian Latvians. The celebrating mood of performers is spreading also to the people in the street, they are saluting and greeting the procession. Brass band is playing, songs in Latvian are being sung here and there, ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky

Original title: Nipernaadi

1983 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Kaljo Kiisk

The film directed by Kaljo Kiisk is based on the novel "Toomas Nipernaadi" (1928) by August Gailit, telling the story of a restless vagabond spending his summers with travelling on foot around the country.

While traveling around Estonia in summertime, Toomas Nipernaadi has no direction nor destination - he goes where the road takes him. People think their lives have been predestined and it should be taken as an inevitability until they meet Nipernaadi who likes to make up all kinds of stories and make people excited. He promises everyone happiness, love, and himself - but no one will ever get hold of him.
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Olümpiavõitja Kristjan Palusalu 75 aatasne

1983 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Evald Vaher
Bumpy

Original title: Nukitsamees

1981 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Helle Murdmaa

The debut feature film directed by Helle Murdmaa is based on the children's story "Bumpy" by Oskar Luts. It is a musical fairy tale about the good and the evil, represented by sister and brother, Iti and Kusti, and by the family of forest ogres. The songs written by Olav Ehala for the film have become nationally known and beloved while being chosen also to the repertoire of Estonian song festivals.

One beautiful morning the toddler of the forest ogre family gets a babysitter, a little girl named Iti. She and her brother Kusti have been decoyed into a deep forest by a witch who wants to make them work in her ogre's household. Despite the extremely hard times she has with the toddler, Iti won't lose her patience and the little Bumpy starts to behave like a normal child. His name - Bumpy - comes from the tiny horns he has on his head. When the children find the opportunity to escape, Bumpy won't hear of letting Iti go. Iti ...
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Poiss ja liblikas

1978 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Tammik
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The Field

Original title: Põld

1978 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Rein Raamat
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Kolmikud

1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek