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They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music

Original title: Räägitakse, et tomatid armastavad rokkmuusikat

2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature.

Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature. Together with autumn rains arrives Aleksander’s daughter Marju, who hopes to inherit the old man’s house, tear it down and put up a guesthouse on the lot instead.
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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Orgulas - pilguheit möödunule

2001 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Õie Orav
Master and Slave

Original title: Isand ja ori

1992 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Enn Säde

Documentary dedicated to the memory of Jüri Müür. The film about how the master of land - the farmer – becomes the slave of land.

The documentary has documented rural life in Estonia in 1991 "from the idyllic to the idiotic" when there was no Land Reform Act. Restoring farms have started on the level of instincts, with unpolished legislation and without the new land readjustment. Perhaps just based on the farmer's sense of mission ... The filmmakers introduce three new farmers who try to build their homes without much thinking of their health.
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Neli aastaaega kahes botaanikaaias

1986 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Gardener's summer

Original title: Aedniku suvi

1980 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vello Aruoja

Documentary about urban residents becoming hobby gardeners in the summers of 1970s in Estonia.

Gardener Arnold Treumuth's life in the summertime expresses the ups and downs of amateur gardeners during the 1970s in Estonia. The documentary is a contunuation to Vello Aruoja's documentary "Gardener's spring". Summer, a time of blooming and ripening, requires effort and care from a gardener in order to protect it from pests and birds. When the beauty fades with autumn, the gardener will wait for a new spring and gardening work that is the Arnold's favorite pastime.
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Gardener's Spring

Original title: Aedniku kevad

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vello Aruoja

City residents practice gardening in order to answer their call of nature.

At the beginning of every spring, thousands of city residents rush towards their gardens and summer cottages in order to complete the spring cleaning, sowing and planting. Estonians have always been farmers, and even when living in a city they cannot resist the call of nature. Documetary by Vello Aruoja gives a great overview about the gardening culture in Estonia in 1970s, follows people buying plants at the market and shares the thoughts and opinions of hobby gardeners.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
Blooming Stones

Original title: Õitsvad kivid

1963 | Educational | Director: Vladimir Parvel

The documentary gives overview about the suitable plants for an alpine garden and the know-how about building such garden.

The documentary introduces plants originated from Siberia, Caucasus, European alpine regions, America and Estonia suitable for alpine gardens. The film gives directions about establishing an alpine garden and shows various gardens in Estonian yards as well as in urban space. Voice-over by Heino Mandri.
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