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Space of Pure Thought

Original title: Puhta mõtte ruum

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Puu Estonia (pseudonüüm)

Documentary about the modern humanitarian who according to himself has no choices.

Philosopher Jan Jõemets embodies all Estonian humanitarians of 1990s. While flying too high and being too free he burned his fingers and now the viewers can decide themselves whether Jan has enouth will and power to rise from the ashes. Only Jan's friend Margus Ott has survived in today's desinfected and chlorinated pool of education among the former philosophy students of the School of Humanities. The documentary points out the commercialization of today's higher education and suffocation of free thinking. The protagonists' journey reveals how educational system attempts to cast creative thinkers into similar moulds.
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Elisabeth von Ungern-Sternmeer

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Vallo Toomla
Legacy

Original title: Pärand

2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

Legacy is a documentary about the „closed city“ of Sillamäe – a city that Stalin founded for the needs of the first atomic bomb built in the Soviet Union. The local Estonian population was almost entirely relocated and the neoclassical resort town was virtually rebuilt for the Soviet elite working in the uranium enriching factory. The inhertance that period left is a complex one – including a radioactive tailing pond. The Soviet hegemony lingers on in Sillamäe, where the tiny Estonian population still strives to retain their culture. The documentary investigates the multifaceted relationship between state and – how did the closed ...
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ID

2004 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Meeme Kerge

Rein Mikke, born as an Estonian citizen, was adopted by Russian parents in 1950s. Now he is trying to overcome bureaucratic obstacles and restore his Estonian citizenship and related rights.

Born as an Estonian citizen in Viru county, Estonia, in January 1950, Rein Mikke was involuntarily adopted by the employees of The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and his name was changed to Vladimir Levchenkov, later Aleksey Levchenkov. Originally an Estonian citizen must acquire another citizenship while living in his homeland due to the fact that the act of involuntary adoption remained lawfully valid and Mikke's identity was proved only by his red passport. Now his aim is to take back his real name and citizenship. Eesti sünnijärgne kodanik on sunnitud oma kodumaal elama võõra riigi kodanikuna, ainsaks isikut tõendavaks ...
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Don´t Kill the School, Please!

Original title: Ärge pange kooli kinni

2000 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Ago Ruus

The Metsküla Elementary School is a classic example of the joys and problems of the current education system. Today, there are 22 students and 3 teachers here. And yet, the threat of closure looms over this school as well. If the school dies – the town will die with it.

It's the first schoolday of the 21st century in Metsküla Primary School in Matsalu, Lihula parish. There are 22 pupils in six different grades and 3 teachers in the school. The school functions well, both teachers and pupils are happy with it. However, the school is facing the prospect to be shut down soon. Metsküla Primary School is more or less a typical example of today's basic school education together with its ups and downs. In the swirl of 1970s fast economic growth the school was back then shut down - now the 130-year-old school has been brought back to ...
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The Sanctuary

Original title: Varjupaik

1999 | Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus
Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 3. Part 2

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 3. film, II jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Film introducing the expatriate Estonians in Australia. Efforts made in teaching Estonian to the younger generation of expatriate Estonians.

Inno Salasoo, activist of social projects among expatriate Estonians in Australia and founder of Forest University in Australia, gives an interiew in his home in Sydney. He recalls organizing the summer camps of Estonian Refresher School in Sydney since 1962. Edgar Aavik was the manager of the first camp, Salasoo was the assistant manager. When first the camps were held only in Estonian then later also English language was used. In order to educate the younger generation in the field of Estonian nation and culture as well as cultivate conversations in Estonian language, Inno Salasoo founded the Forest University in ...
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Traces of Empire: Paldiski 1994

Original title: Impeeriumi jäljed: Paldiski 1994

1994 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Mati Talvik

Documentary about the situation in Paldiski and Pakri islands after the Soviet army left Estonia in 1994.

After the Bases Agreement that was imposed on Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1939, Paldiski became a Soviet military base. In the beginning, after the World War 2, the town was also open to local Estonians; however, the decision that was made in 1962 to establish a training center for Soviet nuclear-powered submariners made Paldiski a closed military town for 30 years. In 1968, the training center started to educate the crew members of nuclear-powered submarines. 1968. aastal hakati õppekeskuses koolitama välja aatomiallveelaevade ekipaaže. Paldiskisse ehitati tõenäoliselt maailma ainus maapinnal asuv tuumaallveelaeva täpne makett koos tuumareaktoriga. Hiljem ...
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Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution

Original title: Impeeriumi jäljed: Radioaktiivne reostus

1994 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Other categories, Commissioned | Director:

Documentary talks about the radioactive pollution areas left by the Soviet Empire.

One of the legacies of the Soviet era is radioactive pollution - an important example of the colonial policies of USSR to illustrate reluctance to act in an environmentally friendly way. Among the biggest producers of radioactive pollution in Estonia were Sillamäe Uranium Enriching Factory; the burial place of radioactive waste in Saku; underground ignition complex of nuclear rockets near Valga; and the training centre of submarines in Paldiski. Kõigi nõukogude tuumaobjektide puhul on probleemiks täpsemate plaanide puudumine, info hankimine Venemaalt on seotud aga tohutute raskustega.
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Bob Rae´s interview in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Rob Rae intervjuu Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Canadian politician Bob Rae is being interviewed by journalists and tells about the political situation in the Baltic States and the recent violent events in Lithuania and Latvia in January 1991.

Bob Rae (Robert Keith Rae) is an expatriate Estonian politician in Canada who gives an interview in the office of the Prime Minister of Canada in Toronto. He tells the journalists about the Soviet occupation in the Baltic States, the political awakening of the Baltics and their struggle for democracy and independence; also, about the dramatic events that took place in Riga and Vilnius in January 1991. Next to Bob Rae there are representatives of Lithuanian and Latvian refugee organizations.
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