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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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Big Swamp

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2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

Vello followed an ancient call and settled on a swamp island, his neighbors became beavers, eagles and countless other species who have found a safe habitat in this cradle of nature.

Vello moved to the farthest swamp island of Emajõe-Suursoo 30 years ago. He left his previous labor life and the city to live in harmony with the mother of nature. There is still such a nature in Emajõe-Suursoo that is vanishing from the rest of the world. The vast delta allows the species to live on its own, without much human intervention, even though man has been seeking refuge and food supplements in the swamp for thousands of years. Vello makes a living from beekeeping and hunting, his life flows in the rhythm of nature.
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Kohad, mis kardavad maailma

2022 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Marek Vahula
Foster Mothers

Title in Estonian: Kasuemad

2021 | Documentary, Nature, Problem oriented | Director: Meelis Muhu

The volunteers of the Wildlife Association rescue wild animals that have been involved in accidents as a result of human activities.

Wild animals are in trouble. In areas that have always been covered with forests, there are now new housing estates, highways and polygons. Because of human activity, more and more animals get into accidents. But the injured animals still have hope because volunteer foster mothers take care for them, heal them and let them go back to nature.
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Happiness is a Journey

2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan

On the night before Christmas a warehouse of disparate workers process newspapers for delivery before heading out into the city to trace the desolate streets to their few and far between customers.

On the night before Christmas a warehouse of disparate workers process newspapers for delivery before heading out into the city to trace the desolate streets to their few and far between customers.
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The Circle

Original title: Südamering

2019 | Documentary | Director: Margit Lillak

To change the world, one needs to start within.

The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first eco-conscious community in Estonia. Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home. Five families move in – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by spreading movement of eco-communities, in order to try out in a smaller constellation a new life arrangement that concentrates on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature ...
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Roots: 40 Years Later

Original title: Juured: 40 aastat hiljem

2018 | Documentary | Director: Moonika Siimets

A story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.

My parents Tiina and Ülo have saved more stuff in their home throughout the years than they have space to live. Useless piles of clothes, old newspapers and dishes block the way to the dinner table or bed. This is a story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.
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Roosenberg

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Ingel Vaikla

Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. It is the story of an encounter, a story of a space at the beginning of the end.

Roosenberg is a place, a space, a building, a film. Roosenberg is a letter that tells of director's encounter with four elderly nuns in a fascinating monastery in Waasmunster, Belgium, before that building was vacated. For several months, director of the film followed four women who belong to the core community of Marian Sisters of St. Francis in Dom Hans van der Laan’s Monasterium and captured the everyday communal life of the sisters, their religious practice and final departure, in order to tell the story of modernist architecture. But this film is not the glorious celebration of that spiritual modernity. ...
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Alone Together

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Worapoj In-lao, Kevin Molloy

Mediastudents' Worapoj In-lao and Kevin Molloy art-documentary about relationship between human and things in experimental cinema.

Alone Together is the experimental documentary which intended to display the relationship between people and place in Adele rehabilitation center by means of purely capturing the interior shots of the center where staff, therapist and patients were doing their job. Apart from daily basis shots of interior building, the film also shows the time Adeli staff were about to move away to the new center.
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Cutting Through

Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

2016 | Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

NIcaragua authorities made an agreement with a Hong Kong enterprise HKND to start the greatest navvying work in the world history – to build a 277-metre-long ship canal through the country, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.
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