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Walker on Water

Original title: Vetelkõndija

2022 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Anu Aun

A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.

There’s a character in poetess and prose writer Kristiina Ehin’s book “The Last of the Monogamists” who walks on water. This person is looking for two things in life – love and truth. She is someone who still believes in miracles and is able to make them happen. Someone who’s not afraid to set challenges for herself and meet them... She is Kristiina, herself. Kristiina’s tragically playful figure is filmogenic both inwardly and outwardly. Her girlish, almost nymph-like appearance seems to imply an equally fragile personality. Kristiina’s sparkling eyes and modest smile hide an extraordinarily sharp pen, deep sense of ...
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Dance With The Devil's Grandma

Original title: Tants vanakuradi vanaemaga

2015 | Documentary | Director: Alice Järvet

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia.

The film summarises the sad truth about the “games” played at the edge by Konstantin Päts, the first President of the Republic of Estonia, and Johan Laidoner, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Estonia. It reviews their domestic policy activities and their role in the relationship with Soviet Russia that ended so badly for both these men – and for the whole Estonian nation. More than a quarter of a century ago Eesti Video AS, a company owned by Viktor Siilats, managed to acquire amateur video footage of the discovery of the final detention location of Konstantin ...
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Love Is Blind

Original title: Kertu

2013 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Ilmar Raag

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.

The drama takes place in a small village, telling the story of 30-year-old Kertu whose whole life has been controlled by her father. Local people consider Kertu mentally unbalanced because of her modesty. The young woman gives it a try to change something in her life and sends a postcard to Villu - a handsome yet degraded village drunkard. Their unpredicable love story won't be accepted by their close ones and the fellow villagers.
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The Hostage

Original title: Koer, lennuk ja laulupidu

2006 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Laila Pakalniņa
Nõukogude Eesti

1985 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Raul Tammet
800 hits or the positive impact of the kricket's song to potato farming

Original title: 800 lööki ehk kilgilaulu soodsast mõjust kartuli kasvatamisel

1981 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Valeria Anderson

Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, a scientist in Saku agricultural institute, whose aim is to improve potato cultivation.

Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, scientist at the Estonian Research Institute of Agriculture, who develops the method of cultivating potatoes from meristem plants. Potato gets hit 800 times when harvested with a combine, thus potate yield decreases. While implementing Rosenberg's method it is possible to develop a healthy seed potato and thus increase potato crop yields. The filmmakers show Viive both in her laboratory and among her family. The potato plants cured by Rosenberg have provided first healthy seed potatoes - every tuber is a certificate for her work.
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Uus veterinaarjaam

1976 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Valga raj Kalinini nim kolhoos

1975 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Reet Kasesalu
20th Anniversary of Metsakodu, 1974

Title in Estonian: Metsakodu 20. aastapäev 1974

1974 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

Metsakodu scout camp in Sweden celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Scout camp "Metsakodu" celebrates its 20th anniversary since establishment on July 11, 1954. The early spring of 1974 in Metsakodu, ice fishing on the lake, meeting indoors. Spring cleaning in the camp site. Having a meal in the main building. A lot of work in the camp site – beginning of construction works, building new pathways in the forest, making firewood, window washing, raking the surrounding of the camp buildings. A swans' couple on the lake. In June, guests arrive at the camp to take part in the event of neighbours and the gathering of scouts' friends. Performance by Volvo ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Valeria Anderson