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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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Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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Wanderers

Title in Estonian: Kondajad

1990 | Documentary | Director: Tõnis Lepik

Episodes of mountaineering through the protagonist's emotions and experience.

Documentary about the expedition in Pamir mountains held by Estonian alpinists. Existentialist contemplation about surviving in harsh conditions in nature as well as about perceiving the power of mountains and the diminutiveness of a human being. The urge to climb the heights, assessing one's personal abilities. Views of mountains accompanied by the protagonist's monologue.
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Recollection

Title in Estonian: Meenutus

1987 | Other categories, Documentary, Portrait, Commissioned | Director: Heini Drui

Documentary about composer Heino Eller, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Estonian SSR. The film is dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of Heino Eller who was born on March 7, 1887.

PPianist and music teacher Heljo Sepp recalls her beloved teacher and composer Heino Eller. She talks about her PhD dissertation at the Moscow Conservatoire where she researched the piano music by Heino Eller. She is interviewed by music historian Ivalo Randalu. They walk in Kadriorg Park, in Eller's summer home in Laulasmaa and by the sea. Background music is Eller's "Melody of Homeland" ("Kodumaine viis"). Heljo Sepp has a lot to say about its harmony, dynamics, tension of the piece; she also recalls the story of how she found the piece and titled it.
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The Sounds of Kaleva

Original title: Kaleva hääled

1986 | Documentary | Director: Lennart Meri

Three-act documentary essay directed by Lennart Meri about memory and the historical cultural connections between the Finno-Ugric peoples.

The documentary is divided into three parts: the first part has been dedicated to ancient bearers of memory such as Karelian rock paintings, poetry of Kalevala, the Khanti bear funeral ceremony. Taking a tour in the past has been interwoven with mythical ancient history, yet drawing parallels with today's society. In the second part Lennart Meri tells about Finnish folklore collector Elias Lönnrot's trip to Estonia and his meetings with Estonian intellectuals in 1844. Interest towards Estonian language and friendship with Faehlmann hints at mutual influence in their work while compiling "Kalevala" and "Kalevipoeg". In the third part, the filmmakers ...
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Lahemaa Rahvuspark

1984 | Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Peeter Tooming
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The Winds of Milky Way

Original title: Linnutee tuuled

1977 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

The sequel to „The Waterfowl People“. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970.

Documentary of cultural anthropology about the ethnography and ethnogenesis of the Finno-Ugric peoples is a sequel to the documentary "The Waterfowl People" (1970) directed by Lennart Meri. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970. The film ...
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Family 34

Titl in Estonian: Perekond 34

1973 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu spending time with their children. Family trip by car to Norway.

The Nõu family travels to Norway in summer 1973. Their trip takes them through Dalarna area in Sweden towards the north. The landscape is mountainous, the rapid mountain rivers and waterfalls, the highest waterfall of Sweden - Njupeskär. The famous Dala wooden horses of Dalarna are standing by the road. Houses in Trondheim, Norway are hemming the coasts of fjords. The pride of the town - Nidaros Dome Church; view from the high up to the panorama of the town. The family drives on E6 road towards the south, they pass Lillehammer church. Beautiful views of nature, snowy mountain tops, ...
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The Stone of Blood

Original title: Verekivi

1972 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Madis Ojamaa

The adventure film directed by Madis Ojamaa is based on a historical fact from the "Livonian Chronicles" by Balthasar Russow, telling about the execution of Baron Johann von Uexküll in Tallinn in 1535.

When Baron von Uexküll and his fellow pillagers lead another ship onto rocks with false lights, they will have no mercy on no one on the ship. One sailor, Andreas, is able to escape the ship and make it to Tallinn with the help of farm girl Jaana and Matis who once fleed from Uexküll's as a slave. This means that Uexküll's history will be revealed; so the baron sends his servants to capture the annoying witness. Instead of catching Andreas the servants bring Matis along. As they say, city air makes you free, and Matis has become a free ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

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