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Lembri Uudu

2017 | Documentary | Director: Eeva Mägi
Body Memory

Original title: Keha mälu

2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine.

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors, sustaining the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in the memory of the body?
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Miina

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õnne Luha

Documentary depicts one day in a schoolgirl Miina's life: we see her in her home farm near the forest, at her school and at a party.

Miina is a fifteen-year-old girl living in Obinitsa village. She lives with her big family in a small forest farm and goes to a small school that will be probably soon closed. The kind of a school where students won't go for a secret smoke round the corner; where there are no drug dealers; and where the teachers are friendly yet strict. Miina doesn't want to stay to her home village - there is no work and she feels bored. The documentary follows her daily life.
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Awakening

Original title: Äratus

1989 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jüri Sillart

The debut film by director Jüri Sillart depicts an Estonian village on the fatal day of March 25, 1949, when ten thousands of people were deported to Siberia.

It is the night of March 25, 1949. The full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals while using violence. But people are not animals. They have souls and emotions which get hurt. Deporters cannot read from their lists what kind of powers will be disentangled that night. Dignity and Disobedience won't be there. The constructors of a new human being, disguised into a Man and a Woman, cannot expect this. Neither will ...
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Cogito, ergo sum

Original title: Cogito, ergo sum

1989 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

Instead of joining the collective farm, Karl Peterson chose threats, penalties, deportation and prison as he wanted to live as a free man in a free country.

Karl Peterson, an old farmer, lives alone in his poor house in a neglected village of Uus-Kiislova, Põlva county, where his household once bloomed. Despite the war, deportations, collectivization, distrainment and other crimes agains humanity Karl never joined the collective farm. He was terrorized, abused and imprisoned but he remained true to himself. Karl tells the story of his difficult yet independent life and his silent yet consistent resistance to the Soviet order.
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Journey to Tartu on March 28, 1989

Title in Estonian: Teekond Tartusse 28.03.1989

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn and Helga Nõu visiting their homeland Estonia, driving on Tartu road to Tartu on March 28, 1989.

Enn and Helga Nõu visiting their homeland Estonia, trip to Tartu on Tartu road on March 28, 1989. Passing Adavere windmill, crossing Kärevere bridge, view to the meadow of River Emajõgi.
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Farewell to Borodin

Original title: Lahkumine Borodinist

1988 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary by Peeter Tooming about the possibility of life in Kunda, the town of cement.

Kunda is a small industrial town in Northern Estonia. The daily life of the town is both literally and metaphorically influenced by the cement factory. Director Peeter Tooming wonders what the future of the town in an ecological and social sense will be.
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The Witch

Original title: Nõid

1988 | Feature film, Short | Director: Elo Tust

A young woman working as a paramedic is emotionally confused and trying to get rid of the inexplicable restlessness that has been bothering her.

Everything seems to be fine in the young Woman's life. She works as a paramedic – a profession requiring understanding and compassion – but it is her who actually is in need of help to alleviate the restlessness in her. As a doctor, the Woman lacks emotional connection with her patients; she feels alienation towards other people and the surroundings. Her behavior is ironical and provoking. When sitting on a bench in front of her home – a panel apartment building, the Woman is made to look into the mirror by a random bypasser.
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Raudrohutee

1985 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Hagi Šein
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BAM 520 km

1980 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Igor Kurve
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