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Sparkling Rivers

Original title: Sädemete jõed

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

Georgia is not only a country of wine and high mountains, but it is has also more than 25 000 rivers. Running water is a richness, that has been noticed by a lot of investors and made Georgia their desired destination. Even now 80 per cent of Georgian electricity comes from hydroelectricity power plants and in the near future there are plans to construct more than 100 new stations. For thousands of people it means they have to be resettled. Shady deals, unclear investors registered in tax havens, energy minister’s business interests in the hydro construction company and deaths by ...
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Species Remix

2015 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ella Välimäki

By reorganizing home video footage from decades past, Species Remix examines the complicated relationship between humans and animals.
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Child of Nature

Original title: Looduslaps

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anu Aun

In two years she changed from a Playboy cover model into a child of nature.

Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries straight from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover...
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Kihnu lapsed pool sajandit hiljem

2014 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mark Soosaar

People of Kihnu island fifty years ago and in the year of 2014.

Director Mark Soosaar gets in touch with the people from the Kihnu island who were once filmed as children half a century ago, in 1964. Now that the same people are in their sixties they watch the old documentary about them. The black-and-white film frames recall memories and flashbacks. Reunion with former schoolmates is sincere and heart-warming. Time has changed a lot in Kihnu island. Outer world intrudes into every home, lots of residents of Kihnu island have moved to the mainland or even abroad. Does Kihnu language and spirit have a future?
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A Lamb in a Minute

Original title: Minut ja lammas

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

Men offering sheep shearing services decide to face the challenge at the European shearing championships.

Mehis and Raivo are the only professional sheep shearers in Estonia who compare their lifestyle with the construction workers who work abroad. Shearing work often brings them far away from home for a long time. For physics student Aadam sheep shearing is a well-paid job that allows him to focus on his studies while spending considerably little time for working. In the summer of 2013 Mehis, Raivo and Aadam make up their minds to go to Scotland in order to participate in European sheep shearing championships.
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Rasmus, kormonaudid, ning...

2013 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Forbidden fruit

Original title: Keelatud vili

2011 | Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

Two enthusiastic Estonians try to become grape farmers while adjusting the grape plants to the local Northern climate and developing the vineyard culture.

Jaak has the feeling of having been born in a wrong place. He would have wanted to become a wine estate owner somewhere in the middle of vineyards in South Italy. Instead of moving to Italy, Jaak has decided to defy Northern weather and to establish a vineyard on the slopes right next to his farm in Valga county. It may sound unbelievable but he has harvested his first crop. Liia lives not far from Jaak - she comes from Seto region, Estonia, and her passion towards grapes has inspired her to collect more than two hundred varieties of grapes ...
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Journey to the Source of Lena

Original title of the film: Suur jõgi, 1: Retk Leena lättele

2010 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Vassili Sarana
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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