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Bad Ass Merike

Original title: Vinge mutt

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Keil

She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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Vertical Money

Original title: Vara küps

2024 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Martti Helde

Where have the Estonian forests gone?

The documentary is a nature catastrophe film that made scandalous news even before it’s release in Estonia. Shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia the film opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The film also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war. The same kind of war that's being held across the globe.
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Lynx Man

Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to ...
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Between the Three

Original title: Kolmevahel

2022 | Documentary | Director: Marek Vahula

The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.

The documentary introduces the story of environmental protection of Kunda bay in 1992–1993 when two extension plans for the port of Kunda were impeded – to Letipea in the winter of 1992 and to Toolse in the winter of 1993. And as a final result, the port remained to its historical location.
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Birds of Paradise

Original title in Estonian: Paradiisilinnud

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Johan Huimerind

A restless soul roams in a harmonious paradise.

In the beginning of the winter, the bay is freezing over and it becomes an unearthly icy desert. The weather is inconsistent and the ice conditions are always changing. Nevertheless, a mysterious force brings a mob of ice fishermen to the area: risk takers, opportunists and adrenaline junkies. They are passionate fishermen. The film is a poetic dialogue between the bay and the fishermen.
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Kohad, mis kardavad maailma

2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Marek Vahula
Kulgemine

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sergei Batrak

An observational documentary about the unique lifestyle and cultural heritage of Soomaa National Park, following a boat-master, a fisherman, and a Shaman.

The mystical and enchanting Soomaa National Park is home to a unique community with a way of life that is different from the bustling urban world. It captures the essence of this intriguing place, with its own pace, values, and a touch of mysticism. Through the film, we are transported to a world of wonder and simplicity, where time seems to slow down and nature reigns supreme.
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Let’s Do It!

Original title: Teeme ära!

2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets

In 2007 an Estonian entrepreneur was illuminated by a beautifully simple idea: our planet is full of garbage - let’s start with our own backyard and clean it up! Exhilarated by success, the time seems ripe to accomplish something of true magnitude…
Fred Jüssi. The Beauty of Being

Original title: Fred Jüssi. Olemise ilu

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

Fred Jüssi has built his life at the crossroads between nature and culture. This film is about fruitful idling.

Fred Jüssi has built his life at the crossroads between nature and culture. He is a true philosopher of the outdoors who has given deep consideration to the fundamental questions of being human. In this day and age, there is a lot of talk about success and hard work. This film is about fruitful idling. It is a praise of dolce far niente. A hymn for living slowly. Meandering along nature’s secret trails, gazing at clouds passing by, for hours on end, and falling into the sweet embrace of smoke rising from a campfire, we leave city noise and economic growth ...
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World’s Fire

Original title in Finnish: Maailmanpalo

2020 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ville Niemi

World's fire is a poetic exploration of the nordic forest through sound, visuals and finnish poetry.

Film shows the nordic forest on one imaginary day. First is shown the morning, and the beauty of the forest. There everything is living, ants, bugs and birds. After that the destruction starts to fade in. Trees start to fall, forest is burning. After that comes the silence and the burned forest.
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