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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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Mountains That Were Not There

Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

Talent, diligence and willpower can take you to the world stage, even if you grow up in Vändra, on the periphery of Europe, and dream of becoming a professional cyclist. A pro who conquers famous mountaintops in the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Dolomites, and whose name is heard from week to week on the Eurosport channel when the Tour de France, the Giro d´Italia or the Vuelta are underway. One exceptional success story is understandable, but when there are two of them, and both at the same time… Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe grew up to become world-class champions ...
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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An Invitation to the Eternal City

Original title: Kutse igavesse linna

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

An hour with the amazingly multifaceted Einar Laigna, who clearly and emphatically discusses life’s basic values with the viewer, at a time when ethics tend to be lost from our lives. And thus, the message that he sends to Estonians and other people who love their land is that today is more important than ever before.

Einar Laigna (1937) is a multifaceted man with an aristocratic attitude. He can be called a philosopher, a cultural historian, a theologian, a military historian, a soldier and a blacksmith. Laigna sincerely talks about himself and his development as a personality. His comprehensive monologue expresses self-confidence and total self-assurance. As the chief inspector of Estonian defence army, Laigna positions himself between the attitudes of a soldier, a priest, a philosopher, a wizard, a king and an artisan while defining the world and himself.
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Giufa

1979 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Elbert Tuganov

Film about Giufa, the spoon, who is lucky to find a great treasure.

Film about Giufa, the spoon, who is lucky to find a great treasure.
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European Seminar in Rome 1972

Title in Estonian: Euroopa seminar Roomas 1972

1972 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Seminar related to the issues in Europe is organized by the Youth Work of Estonian Committee and Estonian National Council in Rome on May 11-18, 1972. Sightseeing in Rome, Vatican and Capri island.

The seminar organized by the Youth Work of Estonian Committee and Estonian National Council turned out to be a symposium with an intense programme, including overviews in Estonian language, lectures by Italian experts, tours and visits to political institutions. Participants of the seminar are in the building of Dragan European Foundation in central Rome. View from the window overlooking the Monument of Victor Emmanuel II. Trajan's Column. Walking along the narrow streets of the old town. Seeing the Trevi Fountain. Touring in the outskirts of Rome, visiting Tivoli, guided by theologian Vello Salo. Visiting Villa d`Este that is listed in ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Igor Jeltsov
Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski
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