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Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship

Original title: Õpetusi kosmoselaeva ehituseks

2015 | Documentary | Director: Madis Ligema

A film about a bunch of brainiacs, who, having seen too many sci-fi movies, start building the first Estonian student satellite Estcube to send it to outer space. They are comforted by the fact that in space technology nothing is certain and they are most likely to fail. Nothing to lose!

Instructions On How To Build A Spaceship is a film about a brainiacs who have seen too many sci-fi movies, start building the first Estonian student satellite- Estcube. Its a film about its building, launching and life after the success. Mart Noorma PhD, one of the main characters of the film, is the initiator of and the engine behind the project, or the supervisor, officially speaking. The satellite was primarily built by students, namely around 90 of them, who have been associated with the project over the years. Estcube was launched in the spring of 2013, amidst of loud media ...
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EINASTO 11577

Original title: EINASTO 11577

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Helle Karis

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto.

The film project "EINASTO 11577" is dedicated to one of the famous "stars" in Estonia, the academician Jaan Einasto. The minor planet of our galaxy, bearing the number 11 577 and discovered on February 8, 1994 by Eric W. Elst, astronomer of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, was named Einasto by the Minor Planet Centre of the International Astronomical Union. Einasto, together with other minor planets linked with Estonia, orbits around the Sun, taking 3.84 years or 1400 days to complete its path. The main goal of the film is to bring science closer to common people by showing the ...
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Beautiful is the land

Title in Estonian: Ilus on maa

1984 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Maran

Poetic documentary directed by Rein Maran about Estonian nature, history and the present day.

How far can one travel in Estonia during half an hour? And to perform everything one has seen in a flowing poetic language? The essence of the times, places, nature and people taken from the summer of 1984 when Lasnamäe district in Tallinn was young, rural life in Estonia was blooming and people mainly drove cars made in Soviet Union. Were these truly the best years of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia or did it only seem so? The red roofs of the Old Town of Tallinn have always been red; Tartu will always greet the Midsummer Day with ...
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Mida toob järgmine aasta.Intervjuu akadeemik G.Naaniga ja astroloog U.Hänniga

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Julia Guteva
Argipäev

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Heini Drui
Läbimurre

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Heini Drui
A cone and a crystal

Title in Estonian: Käbi ja kristall

1975 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jüri Tallinn

Directions of research of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Physics of crystals, biological productivity of fir trees, issues of the protection of the Baltic Sea – all these problems are studied at the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The documentary introduces the work at the institute of physics, institute of zoology and botany, institute of thermophysics and observatory in Tõravere.
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The Annual Ring

Original title: Aastaring

1974 | Documentary | Director: Rein Maran

The film about the life of Estonian children and youth in the TV film series "Children of the Soviet Union".

A child's voice in the film: "When a tree gets a year older, it will grow a new ring on its trunk. The rains and droughts, storms and sunny days – everything has been written in the ring. Every day that has been lived fully leaves a mark in us." The summer and activities of Estonian children throughout one year. The filmmakers observe young film amateurs in a summer camp in Paatsalu, in Tartu House of Pioneers, in Tõravere observatory, the gathering of the student league. Together they visit Krabi forest district in Paganamaa and the student exhibition in Tallinn. ...
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Uus teleskoop Tõraveres

1974 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
Lend

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek