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Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... Tis diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives. It composes an analogue gospel of a ...
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Time Quartet: In The Storm of Roses

Original title: Ajakvartett: Rooside rajus

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director:

The nurse looks after the roses; the grandchild teaches Granny TikTok; ancient Romans walk around in the garden to the sounds of a saxophone. Countries, roads and people branch out in branching times.

The short film is an attempt to visually reflect our time through a specific person, a retired nurse Helgi Kuusik. We see her in her Haanjamaa farm and in her rose garden, which she established years ago while working in Helsinki hospitals and commuting between Estonia and Finland. The brief scenes in an idyllic rural location, staged in the manner of Victorian era paintings, are linked with more realistic shots about Helgi's trip to East-Helsinki to visit her daughter's family.
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Grass

Original title: Murust

2021 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Film about grass.

The Estonian documentary by Kaupo Kruusiauk is about two families with opposing views on mowing grass and gardening. Larissa and Arvo Pajo live near Rapla. They value caring for your grass and garden and spend an average of two hours on their yard every day. Yardwork is central to their lives and seems to be the guardian of their relationship. Anne Roolaht and Harvi Varkki are jewelry designers who live in Merivälja. Their philosophy is to care for their grass as little as possible. Nature should be allowed to sprawl and develop on its own. Not mowing their grass also means that ...
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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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Not my Land

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aljona Suržikova
The Gardener's Winter

Original title: Aedniku talv

1983 | Documentary | Director: Vello Aruoja

Winter is the important time for a gardener when to prepare for spring.

A gardener won't rest even when the snow covers ground and there are frozen flowers on the window glass. Now it is time to take part in the meetings and lectures held by the gardening cooperative as well as purchase new tools for the upcoming season. And of course one has to keep checking the gardening patch. Winter is the important time for a gardener when to prepare for spring. The film serves as a continuation to TV films "The Gardener's Spring", "The Gardener's Summer" and "The Gardener's Autumn".
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Kuuvikerkaar

1982 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks
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Gardener's summer

Original title: Aedniku suvi

1980 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vello Aruoja

Documentary about urban residents becoming hobby gardeners in the summers of 1970s in Estonia.

Gardener Arnold Treumuth's life in the summertime expresses the ups and downs of amateur gardeners during the 1970s in Estonia. The documentary is a contunuation to Vello Aruoja's documentary "Gardener's spring". Summer, a time of blooming and ripening, requires effort and care from a gardener in order to protect it from pests and birds. When the beauty fades with autumn, the gardener will wait for a new spring and gardening work that is the Arnold's favorite pastime.
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Gardener's Spring

Original title: Aedniku kevad

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vello Aruoja

City residents practice gardening in order to answer their call of nature.

At the beginning of every spring, thousands of city residents rush towards their gardens and summer cottages in order to complete the spring cleaning, sowing and planting. Estonians have always been farmers, and even when living in a city they cannot resist the call of nature. Documetary by Vello Aruoja gives a great overview about the gardening culture in Estonia in 1970s, follows people buying plants at the market and shares the thoughts and opinions of hobby gardeners.
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Imelugu

1977 | Musical film, TV feature, TV Short | Director: Irene Lään
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