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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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Christ Lives in Siberia

Original title: Kristus elab Siberis

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi

Director Arbo Tammiksaar together with his family moved to live in a Vissarions' village in Siberia for a year, in order to follow the daily life of the religious community.

The charismatic religious leader Vissarion lives in an isolated Siberian village and calls himself Christ who has reborn. A religious sect consisting of thousands of followers has gathered around him, including Dmitri the bellringer and his wife Sveta who moved to the community with her three children from Saint Petersburg a few years ago. Magomed, the biological father of the children, writes a complaint letter to the administration of the President of Russia and insists that his children should be given back to him. Director Arbo Tammiksaar with his family moved to the Vissarions' village for a year. He followed ...
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Unt´s hour

Original title: Unditund

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed ...
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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The Mission of a Rom

Original title: Mustlase missioon

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Georg Vinogradov has an important mission: to bring the Romanians to Christianity and improve the reputation of the nation for Estonians.

50-year-old Romanian Georg Vinogradov is a priest in Võru Pentecostal Church. He reached religion through rough personal experiences, including being a prisoner in Patarei Prison, being sick with cancer and fighting this. Georg is a father of eight children. His home is his church - half of his house, an old wooden building, serves as a church. Georg attempts to bring Romanians closer to Christianity in order to purify their souls and improve their reputation among the local people. The documentary juxtaposes Romanian traditional lifestyle and Christian world view declared by Georg as well as contemplates on the dilemma of ...
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Etude of a Prayer

Original title: Etüüd palvest

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Siiri Timmerman, Jaan Kolberg

This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.

Generally, if people speak about convent in Pirita, they mean the ruins and many of them are surprised to discover that right there in Pirita, next to the old ruins, has been over ten years a fully operating Bridgettine convent. This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth. If during medieval the convent was an understandable part of social life then later, after the reformation, the tradition of a convent as an institution disappeared from Estonia and from our neighborhood. Today this ...
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Islam Eestis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Tõnu Virve
Aaria

1992 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Dorian Supin
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Requiem

Original title: Reekviem

1984 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Olav Neuland

The psychological drama directed by Olav Neuland depicts the events of the summer of 1944 - the story of a family of Estonian intellectuals in the middle of the war.

When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help to Meelaku farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids Johann, Sebastian and little Mari. Their mother has died in war and the family won't hear of any Germans or Russians. One pilot needs an operation so Jaan sends for Evelyn Ewers, a German military doctor. The course of events forces to stay everyone in the farmhouse until the final decision must be made.
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Tartu 950

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peep Puks