Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Search results

Advanced search (39)

Georgica

Original title: Georgica

1998 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

The poetic drama with a profound philosophical undertone directed by Sulev Keedus about the postwar desolated and occupied land. The film is one of the first art films produced in the independent republic of Estonia and it has received awards at various acknowledged international film festivals.

Story about the silent Boy who is sent for medical treatment to Jakub, a former colonial missionary living on an island that is also a military training area. Jakub is the only civilian there. He has to make observations during the bombing at night and phone the headquarters about the results. The observation spot is located in the tower of a church in ruins where Jakub makes silage. The missionary - an old horse - tramples silage in the church tower. There are beehives inside of the church. Jakub plays the organ, singing chorals and the Boy pumps the organ ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Just Married

Original title: Just märried

1998 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Peep Pedmanson

In the high seas, a legless Fisherman meets a big two-headed Ship, where weird handless Creatures are dancing around their big Goddess.

In the high seas, a legless Fisherman meets a big two-headed Ship, where weird handless Creatures are dancing around their big Goddess. She gives birth to a child while the battle between their Ship and Fisherman is going on... The ship sinks and Fisherman's Iceberg-home sinks too. Somewhere life goes on, surrounded by a wedding-car's music: Beach Boy's "Surfin' USA"!
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The Febris

Original title: Febris

1997 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Puustusmaa

Feature film debut by director Andres Puustusmaa, a fantasy sketch based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel"The Dwarf"– a story about dwarf in a man.

Film director Andres Puustusmaa has advised the audience to watch his film as a plotless poem composed by colours. The sketch full of fantasy is based on Pär Lagerkvist's novel "The Dwarf", telling about the dwarf hidden in a human soul. The dwarf as the embodiment of perversion is fed by estrangement, envy, narrow-mindedness, violence and the passion of manipulation. A human being starts to seek for salvation only when chaos has broken out.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Estonian Contemporary Art Siim-Tanel Annus

Title in Estnian: Eesti nüüdiskunst: Siim-Tanel Annus

1991 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

Performance by Siim-Tanel Annus that forwards its message through text, images and music.

Siim-Tanel Annus was one of the main performance artists in Estonia in 1980-1993. In the film, the artist says that his attempt is to express something that cannot be forwarded through words or paper. The film full of images and associations aims at touching the borders between life and death. Keywords of this kind of creative activity are: blindfolded human being, burden, fire and rituals related to fire. The refined geometrical abstract figures in the early printed works by SIim-Tanel Annus express the endeavour to exit the daily routine towards the sky and the light. "Nine Mantras", a musical piece ...
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The Sunny Kids

Original title: Noorelt õpitud

1991 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The symbolistic drama directed by Jüri Sillart is telling the story about the spring of young graduates in a small town of Estonia at the end of Stalinist era. The atmosphere of terror is reigning over the place while paralyzing the pursuits of freedom, love and dignity.
- Buy film
- Buy
Ratsaniku laul

1990 | Musical film | Director: Peeter Brambat
- View
The Lost Road

Original title: See kadunud tee

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaan Kolberg

The symbolistic-allegorical drama directed by Jaan Kolberg is based on the novel "The Good Harbour" by August Mälk (published in 1942) and other works of the same writer. The events of the film have been adjusted to the contemporary times.

Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to know the daily life in the fisherman's village, falls in love for the first time, and realizes the complexity of the relationships between those of older generation. While leaving for a stormy sea of life from the village he has still some hope in order to come back to his love and his home port.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Awakening

Original title: Äratus

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The debut film by director Jüri Sillart depicts an Estonian village on the fatal day of March 25, 1949, when ten thousands of people were deported to Siberia.

It is the night of March 25, 1949. The full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals while using violence. But people are not animals. They have souls and emotions which get hurt. Deporters cannot read from their lists what kind of powers will be disentangled that night. Dignity and Disobedience won't be there. The constructors of a new human being, disguised into a Man and a Woman, cannot expect this. Neither will ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Theatre Papa Carlo

Original title: Papa Carlo teater

1988 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlos a path to the doors of freedom is laid.

A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlos a path to the doors of freedom is laid.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
High Jump

Original title: Hüpe

1985 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik
- Stream
- Stream