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Gardens Of The Morning Calm

Original title: Tulevalvajad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... Tis diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives. It composes an analogue gospel of a ...
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Old Man and the Moose

Original title: Vanamees ja põder

2009 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Matjus
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Kingdom of the Elk

Title in Estonian: Põdra kuningriik

2007 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary journey directed by Rein Maran in the hidden world of the elks. The documentary observes the life of these peaceful wild animals and their relationship with other animals and people.

Elk is one of the biggest and grandest wild animals in Estonian forests who has lived here already for eleven thousand years. When we get a glimpse of his enimal through a car window it won't tell us anything about the actual life of the elk, about its peaceful and grand state in its natural environment. The documentary journey travels through the kingdom of the elk where life flows peacefully in the rhythm that has been set since the ancient times. The spectator will see the perennial circle of the largest mammal of Estonian forests during one hour of ...
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Lovesick

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Patrick Collerton

A teenager is trapped by the seemingly charming lifestyle of hammerheads and is coaxed to a forest near Tallinn. There, the teenager will meet a seducer of a totally different kind.

A modern fairy tale about Meru, a teenager Estonian girl who is tired of being a mistress to an elderly businessman. She has received her money, and still, she feels entrapped by living such life. Then, Jaan appears in Meru's life – he is a young, charming man who takes the girl out from town and introduces her a completely different, natural lifestyle. Meru's former partner asks her to come back and the girl has to make her decision.
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Kodust punaste pihlade all - Kalju Lepik

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Us, the residents of Piirissaare

Original title: Meie, piirissaarlased

1987 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Documentary directed by Semyon Shkolnikov about the life and vanishing population of Piirissaare island.

The documentary tells the story of Piirissaare island and its residents though Georgi Pankruhhin's point of view - he is a local medical assistant and a resident of Piirissaare who has lived there for about fifty years. Georgi thinks back to the times when there were ten times more residents, more children and even a school for them in Piirissaare. Currently, in the year of 1987, there are only elderly women and men living there who are still successfully growing onions.
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Sinise taeva all

1982 | Documentary | Director: Heini Drui
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Daily life of Anna Aaver

Original title: Anna Aaveri argipäev

1981 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Documentary directed by Semyon Shkolnikov about Anna Aaver, an hard-working milkwoman of Energia collective farm in Rakvere district, Soviet Estonia, who has been selected as a delegate for the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Anna Aaver comes from Belorussia - in 1955 she emigrated with his Estonian husband to Estonia and now works as a milkwoman in Energia collective farm in Rakvere district, Estonia. It's the early 1980s. The energetic, hard-working woman has been always among the best employees accoring to the head of the collective farm. Anna Aaver, a delegate for the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of USSR, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. She has raised five children and taught them to become hard-working people as well. Despite the Soviet norms related to obligatory remarks and ...
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Oath of Life

Title in Estonian: Eluvanne

1978 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary directed by Peep Puks about Anton Hansen Tammsaare, an Estonian literary classic.

Poetic portrait film about Estonian writer Anton Hansen Tammsaare. Director Peep Puks is telling the writer's story. The voiceover introduces the writer's biography and gives quotes from his literary works, illustrated by the rich and metaphorical visual language. Archival materials and photographs have been used in the documentary.
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Sooleib

1978 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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