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The Academy of Elegant Aging

Original title: Väärika vananemise akadeemia

2023 | Documentary | Director: Sigrid Salutee

It is a fun insight into the life of a day center for elderly.

The self-help and counseling association for the elderly has been operating in Kadriorg for almost 30 years and is fondly called the "Academy of Elegant Aging". The day center gives elderly people the opportunity to realize themselves and communicate even after their loved ones have passed away. There are 13 committees in the association, starting with the security desk and the library and ending with the cafe and the garden. Simple tasks help seniors feel needed.The house is run by 70 year old Heino, who is one of the few men among the lively ladies. He is the one running ...
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Raudvara. Anu Raud

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Erle Veber
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Hold Onto Me

Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

The film follows the journey of the European Choir of Estonians to the 150th Song and Dance Celebration in Estonia through the eyes of two main characters. Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. At the annual choir camp in Bonn, she is faced with a real professional challenge - the choir which only meets twice a year needs to learn the Song Festival repertoire in two days. Her German husband Hartmut also sings in the choir. It is because of love that he has learned Estonian, but now he has to work hard to learn the songs in ...
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Horticulture in Lasnamägi

Title in Estonian: Lasnamäe kõplajad

2019 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Cabbages, beetroots and pumpkins – these are both food and a connecting element for people.

Anton, Maria, Liina and Liis founded a community garden in Lasnamäe district in Tallinn. Together the residents of multistored panel apartment buildings grow themselves herbs, vegetables and develop green thinking. Cabbage, beetroot and pumpkin are the things that make people closer and also provide food.
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Kodumaa karjed

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

Who's the man waving the flag?

Most powerful speeches and thoughts from demonstrations gathered into one essay to inspect – what troubles people and do they have a say?
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Maria ’s Paradise

Original title (in Finnish): Marian paratiisi

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Zaida Bergroth

The angel will guide us.

This is an intense story of love, its dangers and its power. In 1920’s Northern Finland, a Christian sect, led by the angelic and charismatic Maria Åkerblom, is being chased out of town by an angry mob, accused of being a false prophet. They settle at a large estate in Helsinki where at night, the believers gather around Maria as she falls into a trance and delivers the words of the angels. Among the most fervent believers is Salome, an orphan who is Maria`s new personal servant. Salome is happy to bask in Maria’s divine light, and Maria also sees ...
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Kerro 40

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aljona Suržikova

Story about family club Kerro in the countryside in middle of Estonia.

Kerro 40 is a story about unique cultural phenomenon that already 40 years takes place in Estonian countryside called Käru. It is community based and takes place regularly from September till May every year. The core of those activities are classical dance culture and Estonian traditional folklore. Documentary follows representatives of 3 different generations that actively participate in organization of those events and popularization of a strong tradition among younger inhabitants in and outside of Käru community. Lembit Eensoo started to join Kerro events almost 40 years ago, a lot of things are different now. Inge Nuia is taking part ...
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November

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

"November" is based on Estonian novel "Rehepapp" by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last twenty years. The film is a mixture of magic, black humor and romantic love. The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. To guard their souls, they'll give them away to thieving creatures made of wood and metal called kratts, who ...
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Estonian village in Ghana

Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kalle Käesel

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut, also called the gold of African women, growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA. It depends on the continuity of the volunteers as well as the local villagers' contribution to the world of business whether the activities started in a small Ghanaian village would thrive and thus offer ...
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