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Ilo From Paris

Original title: Ilo Pariisist

2002 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, is the guide to take the viewers around Paris.

Documentary by Peep Puks combines two stories: the destinies of a city and of a woman, the stories of Ilo Jaik-Riedberg and the city of Paris. Culture is the common language of Europe. While navigating in French cultural space we perceive its uniting power both for Estonians. Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, works a tourist guide in Paris and introduces the city in various languages. She first went to Paris as a war refugee in 1945. The Jaik family settled in Sweden, yet in 1971 Ilo moved to Paris and stayed there. Ilo brings Estonian tourists to the ...
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Elf Disco

Original title: Päkapikudisko

2001 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Expedition by filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi to the hidden world of violence where the victims are children.

The children's world includes as much brutality as the world of adults. This is invisible violence since it often takes place as an intramural activity. Filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi study the cases of the following kids: Kätlin, Märt, Marek and Indrek. All of them have experienced more violence in their own way than most of the kids of their age. The film brings the viewer to a sad journey to the hidden and traumatic zone in society. The filmmakers try to talk to the children, parents and teachers about the subjects that are often referred to only in ...
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Iron Rose Blossoms

Original title: Raudroosiõied

2001 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Karol Ansip
Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

2001 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

Documentary about the possibilities to preserve the wooden architecture of a city in contemporary urban environment with the examples from Baltic states and Scandinavia. Filmmakers follow the renovation works of an old wooden house in Väike-Patarei Street, Kalamaja district in Tallinn. During one year, the house will be restored into the condition of a contemporary residential house. Both experts and city residents from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia etc. share their opionions about the future and sustainability of the subject of restoring wooden architecture. For decades, renovating wooden architecture was considered something unimportant.
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Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Call-girl´s Christmas

Original title; Ööliblika jõulud

1994 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Artur Talvik, Rein Kotov

Documentary about 19-year-old Kerstin who has come to look for happiness and sell her body in Tallinn, Estonia.

Portrait documentary about a country girl who has hopes for the better future and comes to Tallinn to sell her body in order to look for happiness and make a living. This is an honest story about an eager young woman who has chosen a difficult, sometimes even dangerous profession as a "female servant for men". The film observers the optimistic girl's naive expectations towards future and harsh ordeals in Neo-Capitalist Estonia in early 1990s.
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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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Brief course in internationalism

Title in Estonian: Internatsionalismi lühikursus

1989 | Documentary | Director: Ants Vill

Political events in Estonia in 1988 and 1989.

Political events in Estonia with the participation of Russian-speaking people. With the initiative of Soviet-minded intermovement that was opposed to the independence of Estonian, crowded meetings took place near Linnahall in Tallinn. The people who spoke there were aggressive towards the local nation. Archival footage about occupying Estonia complement the mentality of the protesting people.
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Cogito, ergo sum

Original title: Cogito, ergo sum

1989 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

Instead of joining the collective farm, Karl Peterson chose threats, penalties, deportation and prison as he wanted to live as a free man in a free country.

Karl Peterson, an old farmer, lives alone in his poor house in a neglected village of Uus-Kiislova, Põlva county, where his household once bloomed. Despite the war, deportations, collectivization, distrainment and other crimes agains humanity Karl never joined the collective farm. He was terrorized, abused and imprisoned but he remained true to himself. Karl tells the story of his difficult yet independent life and his silent yet consistent resistance to the Soviet order.
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Miss Estonia 1988 valimine.

1989 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Heikki Aasaru
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