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Pharmacist

Original title: Apteeker

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaanis Valk

Ester, a good-tempered pharmacist living in Virtsu, has courage to be different. She loves nature, animals and solitude.

This is a story about a pharmacist in her late 50s who works in a small community. Unlike the other members of her community, the woman finds happiness in helping cats and other animals and not in drinking alcohol near the village shop nor earning mammon. She has no husband nor children and she actually does not want to have them. She likes her solitude and has courage to be different. However, this is "unacceptable" for the society.
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Miriam's Nest Box

Original title: Miriami pesakast

2006 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

Up a tree, on a nestbox there is a starling trilling to Miriam.

Up a tree, on a nestbox there is a starling trilling to Miriam. This is spotted by Hen, sitting tediously on a window-ledge. As Father has just finshed making a scooter for the little brother, Hen requires that he should make a nestbox for her ...
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Still Life with Wife

Original title: Vaikelu naisega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

An unusual couple lives in an urban backwater. Married now for over a quarter of a century, their endless sniping never intensifies into the major quarrel that would resolve everything. This constant tension helps the man to paint and gives the woman a reason for living.
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King for a Day

Original title: Kuningas üheks päevaks

2002 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary by Peeter Urbla about Aare Hõrn, owner of Mihkli Farm, and about his activities as Seto King.

Documentary follows the activities of Aare Hõrn - King of the Seto region, owner of Mihkli Farm and development adviser of Meremäe rural municipality - and has been recorded during the celebrations of the Seto Kingdom days, Passover, Christmas and Easter in Obinitsa, Antkruva, Värska, Võru, Luhamaa and Seto villages from August 2000 till October 2001.
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The Vicar of Halliste

Original title: Halliste kirikuõpetaja

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

During his unfair imprisonment in the Soviet Estonia a head of sovkhoz gets a divine revelation and he will enter a deal with God in order to set himself free.

Kalev Raave (1926-2004) was a journalist, a functionary of the Estonian Communist Party, head of Võrtsjärve collective farm and Otepää sovkhoz and head of the Youth Theatre. When he was 62 years old, he became a church minister. With his rich life experience and natural kindness, Kalev Raave won people's hearts and he started to restore Halliste church in Viljandi county, Estonia. He had experienced numerous miracles in his life. Miracle perception was one of the possible connections with God for Kalev Raave - without a miracle one won't be able to perceive the otherworldly.
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On the Possibility of Love

Original title: Armastuse võimalikkusest

1999 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma

The film deals with the right of the individual to choose his own way in a complex world.

The animated film ON THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE declares through the relationships between humans and other living creatures that life can be more diverse and at times more unexpected than it may seem at first glance. The film deals with the right of the individual to choose his own way in a complex world.
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Inimene ja koduloom

1991 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran
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For Crazies Only

Original title: Ainult hulludele ehk halastajaõde

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Iho

Feature film by Arvo Iho tells the story of a nurse working at the department of traumatology. She helps a young man who has lost self-confidence and emotional balance and needs help in order to rediscover his virility. The nurse's behaviour will be disapproved by other people.

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful Russian nurse taking care of him. In order to restore the young man's vitality, self-confidence and virility, the nurse spends a night full of tenderness and love with him. Rita's colleagues start teasing her. Yet, there is someone who considers Rita to be the source for the evil and takes action. Rita accepts her fate but the avenger becomes more brutal every time.
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Lepatriinutalv

1989 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Hagi Šein, Hille Tarto
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Naksitrallid -2

1987 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik
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