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Charm of Sacred Groves

Original title: Hiite lummus

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary by Rein Maran about oak groves in Estonia - local holy places of nature and cultural heritage.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia, the ancient holy places of nature. Groves were protected by the religious customs of rural people and its natural environment stayed intact. This way, every grove formed into an original ecosystem due to local conditions of climate, water and soil. Many groves are well-preserved today, some of them, however, are completely gone except a few landscape marks left behind of its existence. The main value of Estonian nature gradually opens up - the variety of the nature surrounding us. Unfortunately, we are not always able to understand the value as ...
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Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Natural Sacred Sites in Estonia

Original title: Looduslikud pühapaigad Eestis

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Besides his documentary "Charm of Sacred Groves", director Rein Maran also completed another film where representatives of different fields of life contemplate on the sacred sites in Estonian nature.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia - the places that are holy in nature; more than one thousand holy trees, sacrificial stones, healing springs and other natural cult objects. How has the heritage been passing along throughout the centuries? How much do people know about these places and what is their attitude towards them? What do these places mean to contemporary people? Various researchers and scientists discuss on these themes in the documentary.
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Bittersweet

2011 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Elina Litvinova
Delta

2011 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Vassili Sarana
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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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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Kihnu Wedding

Original title: Kihnu pulm

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

The documentary introduces wedding traditions and rites in Kihnu island, Estonia.

A big event is going to take place in Kihnu island - an authentic Kihnu wedding party that lasts for three days. Meelis Leas has proposed Raili Oad and they get married in July 2007. On the first day their marriage will be registered in Pärnu vital statistics office. Then the couple will be taken to the island by boat and all residents of the island will greet them at the harbour. Then the bride goes to her home with her relatives and the groom does the same with his relatives. After sharing a collective meal it is time to ...
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