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Black Box

Original title: Must kast

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Marko Raat

The title of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 raised the issue how to expand the public space and provide more interesting public activities.

The title of European Capital of Culture belonged to Tallinn in 2011. The regulatory committee of Tallinn 2011 had the opportunity to change and expand the urban space in Tallinn. How to take advantage of public space, to give it more interesting use and to expand it? How to get the city more connected to the sea? How to achieve as much as possible with minimum means? Who has enough courage to act according to his/her words and leave the safe area of central Tallinn? The documentary explores the events of the year of culture that was seeking answers to ...
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Letters to Angel

Original title: Kirjad Inglile

2011 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The drama directed by Sulev Keedus tells about Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja who has been sent to the Afghanistan War many years ago and who has converted to Islam there. While returning to Estonia, he will face a completey different kind of war.

Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja has been fighting in Afghanistan; 21 years later he returns to Estonia to his father's funeral. He has converted to Islam and his only connection to his native land is the sound of his daughter Angel's crying that he heard a long time ago on the phone. Jeremia starts to search for his family. The daily life - if this can be called life in the first place - of the dusty and abandoned town is being run by women since men are almost gone. Nevertheless, the women seem to hope that Jeremia will be able to ...
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Ceramic artist Leo Rohlin

Original title: Keraamik Leo Rohlin

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

Portrait documentary by Igor Ruus about Estonian ceramic artist and art teacher Leo Rohlin.

Reo Rohlin (b. 1939), professor emeritus at the Estonian Academy of Arts, is an acknowledged Estonian ceramic artist and teacher. He has been awarded several art prizes, including Kristjan Raud Art Award in 1979. Rohlin has been teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts for more than 50 years. He has written books on practical skills and professional information based on personal experience during a long period of creative and pedagogical activity.
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

Original title: Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 etüüdi piltides

2010 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary film portrait by Marianne Kõrver about Estonian renowned composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

What does it really mean to be a composer? How is a musical work born? How do the first shivers of a thought and a graphical image turn into the first bars and further to a whole piece? What is a composer‘s responsibility towards his audience? The documentary observes different sides of being a composer – from writing a piece in the solitude of the woods of Hirmuste in the island Hiiumaa to orchestral rehearsals in cooperation with acclaimed conductors Paavo Järvi and Anu Tali, the travels and presentations in different parts of the world – Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and, naturally, ...
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Sisters across the Gulf of Finland

Original title: Soome lahe õed

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Imbi Paju
Virve on Virve jääb

2009 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Vaiko Edur
Carrot on the Beach

Original title: Porgand suvitab

2008 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Pärtel Tall

Snowman’s dream has been fullfilled: he is non-meltable and can finally see the summer!

Snowman’s dream has been fullfilled: he is non-meltable and can finally see the summer! But his joy will be cut short since there is more chasers for his nose than always hungry Rabbit and there is nowhere safe and covering snow…
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Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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Toomik's Movie

Original title: Toomiku film

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marko Raat
Balance between Man and Nature

Original title: Inimese ja looduse tasakaal

2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

The project of protecting and restoring endangered species in North-West of Estonia was the initiative of European Union Life-Nature Programme.

Silma landscape protection area in North-West of Estonia administers three territories under protection: Osmussaare landscape protection area, Silma ecological reserve and Vormsi landscape protection. The objective of EU's Life-Nature Programme is to restore and preserve half-natural coastal environments that provide living conditions for endangered migratory birds. The documentary focuses on the collaboration with local people related to the abovementioned programme.
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