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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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The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
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Traitor

Original title: Reetur

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Philip Kaat, Ali Moniri

The quiet morning routine of a married couple is interrupted when a stranger appears on their doorstep asking for help.

Darius, a Middle-Eastern backpacker witnesses a crime in the woods of Estonia and takes a photo of it. The criminals give chase and Darius ends up begging for help on the doorstep of Jaan and Kaia, an older married couple. The foreigner makes Jaan suspicious and he refuses to help. However, when the criminals appear at the door as well, we realize that the main thug is the couple’s son, with who their relationship has festered. Kaia has given up hope and tells Jaan to let Darius in, but Jaan decides to remain impartial, therefore losing the respect of both ...
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The Engine Diabolic

Original title in Estonian: Põrgu ekspress

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Kaur Kokk

Famous writer, Anton Tamm, is travelling by train. He is on his way to the city to get a life achievement award. On his trip he’s forced to share a cabin with a prisoner who’s travelling to get his sentence from the court. They talk and the conversation leads them to some suppressed memories, which tie them together closer than we would expect.
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From Side to Side

Original title: Teisel pool teed

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Students film | Director: Jaanis Valk

We do not want to be sick. We do not want to be forgotten. That, however, is what the people in this film are. Seven percent of the population of the Republic of Estonia does not have health insurance. There is only one ward with 25 beds in the entire country for their treatment. And the women who care for the seriously ill.Day after day, they have to manage with difficulties, the existence of which nobody want to hear about and even less to see. Yet this film tries to do all this. To see and hear people's cries for ...
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Wizard is in love

Original title in Estonian: Võlur on armunud

2009 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Tätte jr

If people fall in love the boundaries between reality and imagination, between good and evil disappear.
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Father

1998 | TV feature, TV Short | Director: Mart Kivastik
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Nõukogude Eesti

1966 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel