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Lumi ja Leenu

2022 | Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

A documentary by Mirjam Matiisen is about Silvi who is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use

Silvi is one of the last Estonians to keep two cows in her home farm for her own use. Unfortunately Silvi sees no future in keeping the cows, so the time has come to send her two beloved animals away.
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Porcelain Madness

Original title: Nõudehullud

2022 | Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness. In one and a half years, tens of thousands of people have been infected with a disease that makes them tirelessly hunt for nostalgic cups and dishes, soviet-era glassware and antique tureens. At the centre of documentary is desirable tableware that triggers the lust for hunt in otherwise normal, educated people, taking their money and sleep. Through carefully selected, colourful characters, we delve deep into the phenomenon. Porcelain aficionados range from the mortally ill Helena, who proclaims herself “mad for porcelain until death ...
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Grass

Original title: Murust

2021 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Film about grass.

The Estonian documentary by Kaupo Kruusiauk is about two families with opposing views on mowing grass and gardening. Larissa and Arvo Pajo live near Rapla. They value caring for your grass and garden and spend an average of two hours on their yard every day. Yardwork is central to their lives and seems to be the guardian of their relationship. Anne Roolaht and Harvi Varkki are jewelry designers who live in Merivälja. Their philosophy is to care for their grass as little as possible. Nature should be allowed to sprawl and develop on its own. Not mowing their grass also means that ...
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Damascus Steel

Original title: Damaskus

2017 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Jaan Kolberg, Jaanus Kulli

A blacksmith battling a severe disease begins the last great job of his life - the creation of a sword made of Damascus steel.

The film's main character is Taimo Kõrvermaa, a blacksmith nicknamed Sepa Tom (Tom Blacksmith), who is also called Damascus as he is one of few craftsmen in Estonia who has the skills for forging a sword made of Damascus steel. The foundation of the film is the blacksmith creating a sword, ordered by the Estonian Neopagans, from beginning to end. In parallel, we will explore the life of the smith, who grew from a thieving orphanage child into a craftsman.
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Let's Play War

Original title: Täna mängime sõda

2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

While there are less and less World War II veterans among the living, the battles of this war keep reoccurring on different battlegrounds in the Eastern territories of contemporary Europe. Young Estonian men Andrey and Reimo have gotten killed several times in these fights. Each time they resurrect, because these are the rules of the game they play along with their comrades from a military club “Frontline”. Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of ...
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Summer Night Love

Original title: Suveöö armastus

2016 | Short, Feature film | Director: Jürgen Volmer

Story about learning how to love on a cold summers night, when Kusta came to Maali, but she wouldn’t let him in. Based on a novel by Friedebert Tuglas.

The family is already asleep when Kusta knocks on the door. Behind it, sleeps Maali, crushed from the hard work, dreaming of getting married, raising a family, building a farm. But the knocker is a young servant Kusta, who just wants to spend the night in her warm hands. But Maali knows, why the boy is here and wont let him in. One wants to live, one wants to play, but Maali is already too old to waste her time on ___. But Kusta knows how to play and soon he’s lying in her bed. They both seem to enjoy ...
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Exegi monumentum (restaureerimine)

1987 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Exegi monumentum

1985 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
Vagu vao kõrvale

1975 | Portrait, Commissioned, Other categories, Documentary | Director: Reet Kasesalu
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Võistlevad põllumajandustöötajad

1973 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Semjon Školnikov