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Heart of the Bear

Original title: Karu süda

2001 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

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.

The magic of Siberia brings hunter Niika back to the lands of Nordic people. Despite of the hospitality of the Nganasan people it turns out that Niika's destiny is not in his own hands but will be determined by the forces of nature. He can rediscover himself only when he is ready to experience passion and pain, desperation and unforgivable sin. He must meet his own shadow, to love a woman for whom no one else is left, and to kill his friend. The only way to escape his fate is to get the heart of the bear.
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Sweet Dreams

The original title "Magusad unelmad"

2001 | Students film, Short | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar
Three Baltic Love Stories: Regina and Sergei. Latvian Summer 1991

Original title: Balti armastuslood: Regina ja Sergei. Läti suvi 1991

1992 | Feature film, Short | Director: Peeter Urbla

Three seasons, three love stories from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the era of great changes in 1991 when the Baltic states freed themselves from the yoke of Soviet Union and regained independence.

Latvian story takes place in the middle of summer. Freedom seems to be so close yet the Soviet army is still surrounding the city. The heart of a young Russian soldier belongs to a pretty Latvian woman Regina. Sergey wants to marry her, but his fellow soldiers will intervene at this point.
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On the Border of Two Worlds

Title in Estonian: Katõ ilma veere pääl

1990 | Documentary | Director: Karl Kello

Documentary directed by Karl Kello, Kuldar Sink and Aare Hõrn about the Seto people living on the border of two worlds, two cultures and two religions, the East and the West.

Mighty kings and seven hundred years of great wars could not destroy the small Seto nation, even if the fifty years of the Soviet regime has been extremely hard. After World War 2, the ancient habitat of Setu peoples - Pechorsky district that had belonged to the first Republic of Estonia – was annexed to Russia. Half of the Seto population of five thousand people remained in Estonia and the other half in Russia. The life of both halves has been very different. And despite that the small nation attemps to preserve their mentality and language, religious traditions, to cherish ...
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Sajandiring

1985 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Tahvel
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Musta katuse all

1982 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Ago-Endrik Kerge
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The Master of Kõrboja

Original title: Kõrboja peremees

1979 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Leida Laius

The drama directed by Leida Laius is based on the novel "The Master of Kõrboja" by Anton Hansen Tammsaare, telling the multilayered story about a farm in need of a master and about hopeless love.

Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won't move in their home farm then it will be sold to strangers. But the farm needs also a master, and Anna has been living in town for years. She comes back home and meets again Villu, her friend from childhood. Villu is still as temperamental as he used to be and Anna has always been a stubborn one. Now they have grown up. The more fellow villagers find the couple a strange one, the more they are attracted to each other.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
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