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All the Sins

Original title (in Finnish): Kaikki synnit

2019 | TV Serial, Elisa | Director: Mika Ronkainen

Crime thriller about complex relationships, small town prejudices and alternative lifestyles.

S1. Detective Lauri Räihä returns home after 10 years to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern town where he grew up. His marriage is in trouble and going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him. With partner Sanna Tervo he works to solve the case only to discover other truths about himself, his hometown, and whether one has the power to forgive all sins. S2. The year is 1999. Jussi Ritola, police officer in a small town in Northern Finland, starts to investigate the death of two of ...
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Colours of the Islands

Original title: Saarte värvid

2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Madli Lääne
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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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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RAM

1970 | Musical film | Director: Mark Soosaar, Leo Karpin
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The Waterfowl People

Original title: Veelinnu rahvas

1970 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

A documentary about the cultural and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in 1969 and 1970. The footage was shot in Nenetsia, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia and Estonia.
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The white land of Enderby

Original title: Enderby valge maa

1969 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt, Mati Kask

Documentary by Andres Sööt and Mati Kask portrays Antarctic expeditions and its polar stations in 1968-1969.

When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need ...
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My home is on the rocky coast of the country of sun

Title in Estonian: Mu kodu on päikesemaa kivisel rannal

1965 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Virve Aruoja

Documentary directed by Virve Aruoja about Estonia.

Documentary about the nature and contemporary life in Estonia. Voiceover introduces the small country by the Balti Sea and its rocky coast, also its nation that has lived through a lot. Due to the hard life and rough nature the local people have become strong and enduring. Estonians have inherited love towards the sea, their country and work from their ancestors. What is the presend day of the Estonian nation in the brotherly family of the Soviet Union?
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Nõukogude Eesti

1964 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Children of the Sun

Original title: Päikese lapsed

1932 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Theodor Luts

The film full of songs and dances is directed by Theodor Luts, telling the story of the enchantment and pain of young love that takes place in an idyllic Nordic summer. It is the first Estonian-Finnish co-production and the first Estonian sound film.

Arno is a painter having an idyllic summer romance with dancer Helja on the picturesque coast of North Estonia when an unexpected visitor appears – a well-off young woman Margot. She tempts Arno to join her to have a good time at a resort town. Helja stays where she is and starts missing Arno. Northern summer is short – but long enough in order to realize one's feelings.
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