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The Life of a Coastal Fisherman

Original title: Elu lainetel

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Riho Västrik

Documentary by Riho Västrik about the fishermen of Peerni, Manija and Kihnu islands, about the short season of Baltic herring fishing and the strict quotas.

The Baltic herring catching season lasts only a month. Fishing quotas are issued for joint use for fishermen - so every lost hour means smaller income. Fishermen themselves compare the situation with an olympic running contest: when the start is given there won't be any mercy before crossing the finish line. During the short fishing season fishermen work their fingers to the bone. When the fishermen finally get the phone call saying that the quota is exceeded and it is forbidden to catch more fish, they are not sure whether to laugh or to cry.
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The Measure of Man

Original title: Inimese mõõt

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marianne Kõrver

Is the global environmental crisis concerning just our environment or is it also the crisis of our habits, expectations and values?

The relations between urbanizing people and natural environment become more and more problematic. Maybe the global environmental crisis is the crisis of the increasing process of urbanizing and the crisis of our habits, expectations and values? The documentary reflects the fear that our habitual world is going to end - the ever-pulsating streets of New York City; the ancient Hsasnkeyf in Turkey, with the history reaching back to the beginning of urban culture in old Mesopotamia; the fishermen villages in Tonle Sap Lake in the heart of Cambodia; and in an ultramodern urban district in Freiburg, South-Germany. Four places in ...
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Time

Original title of the film: Tundras muutusteta

2008 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Dainis Klava
Bug and Teddybear

Title in Estonian: Putukas ja Mõmmi

2007 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mart Taevere

Documentary about a family living in a small rural place. The family's destiny has been decided by alcohol.

Almost 90-year-old mother Irene, her son Elmu and his partner Maimu all live under the same roof in a small rural place in Estonia. Elmu who is about to retire is called Bug and his partner Maimu's nickname is Teddybear. The daily life of the family is dreary and uneventful, but despite that one has to survive. Elmu is a hard drinker but he won't blame life. Mother Irene is dreaming of outliving his son so that she could bury his drunkard son.
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Paradise for Old Men

Original title: Vanameeste paradiis

2005 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ove Musting

The short film tells a story about two old men, city officials, who take action in fighting against illegal fishing. This will change their life forever.

Two elderly men, city officials from the environmental board, are sent to forced retirement. With their active disposition, the two men decide to take action in fighting against illegal fishing. During the boat ride they meet fishermen. However, the fishermen and the surrounding nature turns out to be far more mysterious than the two men first assume. Their boat trip to the fishermen's village will change their life forever.
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The Lightship Kulis

Original title: Tulelaeva kulid

2001 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

Those stories are free of violence and takes place in the middle of a stormy sea filled with reefs. It is about a two brave guys - Kuli and Kuuli, and their gorgeous and ungorgeous acquaintances.

Anything can happen at sea. You are eating your daily sandwich on the deck of the ship when suddenly some shark with its dorsal fin swollen from greed, or gigantic sly seagull, or a spicy storm that has just capsized a spice ship, attacks you. That is just the way it is at sea, and those storm are the absolute worst. But nevertheless, as opposed to other ships, one ship must always be at sea, even if it is raining stone herrings from the sky!
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Stories of the Livonians

Original title: Liivlaste lood

1991 | Documentary | Director: Enn Säde

This is not an ethnographic film about a Finno-Ugric tribe, but a documentary about the decline of a nation.

Livonians are among the smallest Finno-Ugric nations still existing today. They are the closest kindred people to Estonians and Livonian language is the closest one to Estonian language. Currently, there are only a few dozens of speakers of Livonian language left and even for them Livonian is not their native tongue. However, there are about 200 people who consider themselves as Livonians; most of them live in Riga, Ventspils and Kūolka, Latvia. Livonian coast in Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian) once had twelve villages inhabited by Livonian people - now there is no one left there who would fluently speak the ...
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Randlased

1990 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Toivo Kusmin
Peipsi järve kalavarude uuendamine

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Toivo Kuzmin, Mart Taevere
The story of Moon

Title in Estonian: Kuulugu

1984 | Documentary, Other categories | Director: Elo Tust

The Moon and the folk wisdom and beliefs related to it.

The ancient monthly calendar of old Estonians and the related beliefs and traditions. The documentary combines archival film episodes and the staged episodes where one can see the peasants working and in their everyday life. Old wisdom and teachings about what kind of work to do during the waning Moon and the increscent Moon.
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