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The Charikar Girls

Original title: Charikari tüdrukud

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.

End of October 2010 in Afghanistan. The children of the poorest families study In the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province. In most families, children are raised by mothers since their father are either killed or crippled during the long period of war. Filmmakers ask the girls to tell about the most beautiful and most difficult stories of their lives in order to reflect them in the film. During two weeks, the girls talk about their lives and invite the filmmakers to their homes to listen to the stories told by their mothers as well. The stories by ...
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This is the Day

Original title: See on see päev

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

“THIS IS THE DAY” captures the flow and simple beauty of daily life in a monastery standing on a hill above the Serbian village of Velika Hoca in Kosovo.

“THIS IS THE DAY” captures the flow and simple beauty of daily life in a monastery standing on a hill above the Serbian village of Velika Hoca in Kosovo. The director asks the viewer to set aside any expectations of hearing a “story” and instead to observe quietly as in life. The serenity of the film provides a poetic space in which the imagination may drift freely, meditating and reflecting. The camera is still, landscapes unfold, seasons change and the words give way to silence.
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Baruto - Lost in Translation

Original title: Baruto - Tõlkes kaduma läinud

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Artur Talvik

Portrait documentary directed by Artur Talvik about Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto and about his difficult journey towards the highest rank of Japanese sumo wrestling.

The documentary tells the story of Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto, a common Estonian boy coming from the countryside, and about his difficult journey to the closed circle of Japanese sumo wrestling. His quickly developing Sumo career is being admired by his fans both in Japan and in homeland. He becomes famous that is a complicated burden. Through Kaido's eyes we can see the differences between the Eastern and Western cultures through sumo traditions, strict rituals and hierarchy. The director of the film started to follow Baruto's activities since 2005 - during the four years of filming there were both ups ...
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Etude of a Prayer

Original title: Etüüd palvest

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Siiri Timmerman, Jaan Kolberg

This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.

Generally, if people speak about convent in Pirita, they mean the ruins and many of them are surprised to discover that right there in Pirita, next to the old ruins, has been over ten years a fully operating Bridgettine convent. This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth. If during medieval the convent was an understandable part of social life then later, after the reformation, the tradition of a convent as an institution disappeared from Estonia and from our neighborhood. Today this ...
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The Revolution that Wasn't

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aljona Polunina
Making Rain

Original title: Vihma tegemine

2007 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Frode Storaas

The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is acknowledged by the government, and in addition to being the region's most important spiritual leader, the Mambo has the right to hold court cases that deal with minor crimes, problems involving spirits and domestic affairs. He is assisted by several subchiefs and ritual leaders. In the northernmost corner of the Mambo’s kingdom, Mbuya Gondo, an over 70-years-old woman, is a spiritual medium. She often holds ceremonies at a well-known rock drawing site. Mambo Chirara is not pleased ...
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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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Calling - War Cameramen

Original title: Kutse

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

War cameraman Ivar Heinmaa defies danger and death while working in the various crisis areas in the world.

Ivar Heinmaa has worked as a war cameraman in every crisis area of the world, including Chechnya, former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Columbia. He literally faces death now and then. Ivar says goodbye to his wife and goes to another working trip. Filmmakers also introduce all his earlier trips, including war atrocities, cruelty, brutality, vulgarity, devilization, diseases, death; questions are asked why and how it is possible that such things take place around us in this civilized world.
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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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Self-Portrait with Mother

Original title: Autoportree emaga

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Edvard Oja

Autobiographical documentary about Edvard Oja's fight with alcoholism.

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always supported by his mother who has provided unconditional love for her son in every situation. Mother is the only one in the documentary who won't ennoble the environment suffering from alcoholism. Yet, her son has no strength to struggle out of his tough situation. Is it possible after all that he will be cured?
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