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November

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

Visual fairy tale for adults directed by Rainer Sarnet. The feature film combines black comedy and romance.

"November" is based on Estonian novel "Rehepapp" by Andrus Kivirähk, a bestseller of the last twenty years. The film is a mixture of magic, black humor and romantic love. The story is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam. The villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. To guard their souls, they'll give them away to thieving creatures made of wood and metal called kratts, who ...
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The Swan

Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

There is a beast living on the top of a mountain in Iceland. It appears to human beings as a swan. When looking in the eye of a man, the beast will see the person completely through and foretells all about the life of the person. Meeting the swan is an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. This is often the reason why so many people wish to travel to Iceland and drive around the country despite harsh weather conditions. It is not a free choice for the nine-year-old ...
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The End of Milk

Original title: Piimariik

2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur-Paul Põldma

The owner of a small dairy farm holds old-fashion cow keeping in esteem and goes to sell milk himself.

Today's milk production in Estonia moves to the direction of big cattles and automated farms. Rein Külama still runs the archaic small diary farm. Together with his wife they take care of their cattle themselves and sell milk to people. Already for the past twenty years Rein has had a ritual – twice a week he drives through Maardu and former summer cottages district in order to sell milk. Despite the fact that there are raw milk automatic stations in supermarkets, the old-fashioned milk selling still has its magic and the clientele.
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Crimean teacher

Original title: Krimmi õpetaja

2009 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.

In August 2008, a 23-year-old reporter Tiina Rekand working for the newspaper "Postimees", went to teach children with Estonian roots Estonian language at Aleksandrovka Secondary School in Crimea, Ukraine. She started to live in the house of Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, the chairwoman of Estonian Society in Krasnodarka village. Rita is a descendant of Estonians who emigrated from Järva county, Estonia to Crimea in 1860s. As she defines herself: "I am a Crimean-Estonian". In the year of 2008, there are still people in Krasnodarka who speak Estonian when they meet. On ka paarkümmend last, kellele meeldib eestikeelseid laule laulda. Neid on lastele ...
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President

1983 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heli Speek

Documentary about Adolf Raudsepp, president of the milkers' club in Valga county, Estonia.

Portrait documentary about Adolf Raudsepp, president of milkers' club and exemplary cattle breeder in Tahe collective farm, Valga district, Estonia. Adolf and his wife work in their home farm, in the hayfield and the cattle farm. The documentary gives an overview about the advantages of family enterprise in 1980s agriculture of the Estonian SSR and how family members and colleagues relate to the activities of the collective farm.
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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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Rõõmuratas /veisefarm/

1979 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Ülo Tambek
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L.Peips

1975 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
Eesti kalendrilaulud

1973 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Linn ja maa

1973 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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