Documentaries
Traces of Empire: Paldiski 1994
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After the Bases Agreement that was imposed on Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1939, Paldiski became a Soviet military base. In the beginning, after the World War 2, the town was also open to local Estonians; however, the decision that was made in 1962 to establish a training center for Soviet nuclear-powered submariners made Paldiski a closed military town for 30 years. In 1968, the training center started to educate the crew members of nuclear-powered submarines. 
Traces of Empire: Chemical Pollution
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Foreign troops that occupied Estonia considered preserving nature and healthy living environment to be rather unimportant. Soviet generals often planned environmentally dangerous military bases in beautiful places in nature, near water catchment areas and bodies of water. Soviet army had about 1565 military objects in Estonia, including 5 aerodromes, more than 50 rocket bases, test sites etc. Since Estonia regained its independence, our environmental protectors have suffered uncertainty whether all sources of pollution and the remains of hazardous substances have been found and neutralized. 
Traces of Empire: Mechanical Pollution
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The opening scene of the documentary marks the territories in Estonia where the military objects dating back to the era of Soviet occupation were located. Usually these were built in beautiful natural places near lakes and rivers. According to 1991, about 1565 military objects (covering the area of about 871 km2) were used by the Soviet army in Estonia that makes 2% of the whole territory of the state. Today most buildings have been destructed by accidental looters and natural forces. 
Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution
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One of the legacies of the Soviet era is radioactive pollution - an important example of the colonial policies of USSR to illustrate reluctance to act in an environmentally friendly way. Among the biggest producers of radioactive pollution in Estonia were Sillamäe Uranium Enriching Factory; the burial place of radioactive waste in Saku; underground ignition complex of nuclear rockets near Valga; and the training centre of submarines in Paldiski. 
Fast Eddy’s Old News
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A freelance cameraman who earned his nickname Fast Eddy by often arriving at the scene of accident before the police and TV crime reporters. A lot of his material was used on the TV by CBC. The rest – hundreds of hours’ worth of tape that he didn’t manage to sell – is piled up in the rooms and the cellar at Eddy’s penthouse in downtown Toronto.
Can you sell old news? What does old Ed remember and what do his old film reels say about himself? When do one’s own preparations for death come to an end and when do you change into a ward, a potted plant, a piece of furniture? 
Colours of the Islands
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This visually striking film portrays three musicians from disparate parts of the globe, whose common ground is not only talented virtuosity but also their heritage as “islanders”. Saxophonist Villu Veski from Muhu Island in Estonia, Faroe Island singer Eivør Palsdottir and Barak “Bird” Levi from Hawaii all draw, in their unique ways, inspiration from their natural environments and age-old traditions. Underscoring each musician’s works are subtle but expressive differences that characterize the spirit and nuance of their own island habitat. This film invites the senses to take flight. 
The Call of Silence
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Margit, Vitali, Raivo and Riho are deaf; they’re devoted Pentecostals. Having once felt the touch of Christ themselves, their aim is now to spread the message. From one deaf person to another. The task is enormous, as there are over 346 million people in the world who are completely or partially unable to hear. „The call of silence” is a story of Margit’s, Vitali’s, Raivo’s and Riho’s journeys in the most distant and exotic locations in the world – from Kazakhstan to Greece, from Russia into China. What is their message? What joys, hardships and risks does their missionary work bring? 
Yoyogi
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Yoyogi is a place of freedom and going beyond everything human. Like the first flight to the sky.
This film combines two strange and seemingly overlapping peculiarities. On the one hand, there is a distant, almost scientific in its dryness, observation of ordinary scenes of people’s life in the park, on the other hand, a feeling of some kind of magic and the impossibility of what is happening. 
Hippodrome
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Located in the heart of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, the Hippodrome used to be the centre of entertainment for all its neighbouring countries. For nearly 100 years, it has lured visitors with bets and races, and the chance to try their luck with the totalisator.
All that remains today of this majestic racecourse is a lonely horse stable. Now it is more of a social club than a prestigious racetrack. Animal lovers and sports fans still meet here despite the poor conditions. Bizarre parties and engagement photo sessions are held at the Hippodrome, and this is where the best Swedish racehorses are still trained.
This hypnotic black and white film is an ode to a disappearing era and a unique subculture in a place soon to be demolished to make way for yet another brand new office building complex in the city’s never-ending triumphal march of business-oriented real estate development. 
Searching for Light
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Raivo Hein is a successful internet businessman, amateur astronomer, adventurer and journeyman. About both an idealist and a materialist at the same time. About probably the first Estonian astronaut, because he has the ticket to Sir Richard Branson’s spaceflight on SpaceShipTwo almost in his pocket. Raivo believes in science, in the common sense of man, and in the bright future of mankind. He believes that a thousand years old man has already been born today. But is there anyone who would like to live that long? This film talks about a man’s search of his path, about balancing between spiritual and material reality. Thoughts on the future of mankind, on the mystery of life and the universe. Arthur C. Clark already believed that the future of mankind lies in the space. Raivo Hein feels the same way. 
Anthill
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Anthill is a portrait of a giant garage located in the largest Soviet blockhouse area of Tallinn. Here 700 garage box owners form an extraordinary men’s club and vary from those who just keep their cars to those who adapt their boxes for living. The complex is a unique biosphere with the existence of private saunas, a restaurant, an animal clinic and other artifacts of life stuck in time 20 years back. 
Dreaming Arizona
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In the Arizona desert, along route 66, we find an all American small-town, Winslow. At the town’s high school, we meet five teenagers, each with their own dream of the future. Like all teenagers around the world, they are in a transition where they have to shape their own lives, find a way out of childhood and create a new identity as adults. Their desire for freedom is strong, and there are consequences when parents, society or their own conscience restrict it. Film director, Jon Bang Carlsen, examines the teenagers’ basic need to stage their own lives as the documentary imperceptibly seeps into fiction. Together with the main characters, the director has created some imaginary life paths and thereby our teenagers comment on their own situation, the audiences’ anticipations and the director’s vision. 
Tukdam: Between Worlds
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Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such assumptions through its exploration of a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree.
In what Tibetan Buddhists call tukdam, advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner. Though dead according to our biomedical standards, they often stay sitting upright in meditation; remarkably, their bodies remain fresh and lifelike, without signs of decay for days, sometimes weeks after clinical death.
Following ground-breaking scientific research into tukdam and taking us into intimate death stories of Tibetan meditators, the film juxtaposes scientific and Tibetan perspectives as it tries to unravel the mystery of tukdam. 
Meeskond
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Ash and Money
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The NO99 Theater announced in March of 2010 that it would use all the tricks commonly used in politics and communications over the following two months to create a new successful and energetic super-party. The theater organized a party convention and staged it with the participation of 7000 people. The documentary film produced about the project and its influences is a study of the state of affairs in democracy, the media and grass-roots society in the Republic of Estonia.
BUT time did it’s work…
Situation changed and people changed.
Or did they? 
The Woman in the Picture
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The artist Lauri Sillak, aka Laurentsius, starts painting for his new exhibition in an unusual place – a vacant wooden house in the heart of Tallinn, in a house that has belonged to the creator of the art of film and photography in Estonia, Johannes Parikas and his wife Lilli.
The Parikas name truly set the fashion in the interwar Republic of Estonia. Several movie theatres in Tallinn, the Estonia Films film studio, a famous photography studio in Tallinn’s Old Town, the first Miss Estonia competition, portraits of prominent statesmen, and the photographing of all of Estonia were all connected to that name. The walls of the mysterious dwelling of the Parikas family conceal within themselves the traces of people who in their day were prominent in society, and the life of those times is uncovered from beneath the accumulated cultural layers.
The portraits of contemporary beauties and fashion icons appear on the wallpapers of that time, but the ghost of Lilli, the mistress of the house, is restless. 
The Mountains That Weren’t There
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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. 
The Circle
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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 intentional eco-community in Estonia.
They scrap together their savings and buy an old manor lot with 33 hectars of agricultural land and 3750 square meters of half-derelict houses.
Their experiment was inspired by the growing movement of global eco-villages. They step out of society as we know it, deconstructing the basic pillars of life, from nuclear family, to education, to relationships and consumption. Their goal is to build non-violent co-operative relations among themselves, harmonious relations, and sustainable life style with a small footprint.
The film follows the dramatic events in the community for 5 years, from their blissful idealistic beginnings in 2014 until their dramatic collapse in 2019.
Funeral Diaries
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Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips through the fingers like handful of dust. 
Kadunud isa
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Universitas Tartuensis 375
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The Last Soldiers
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Documentary about five protagonists, Estonian men who fought in the ranks of Finnish army against the Soviet Union, and whom Finland gave out to Russia after the war. They suffered under the repressions of NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. The former so-called Finnish Boys and the Finnish prison guards of that time recall their dramatic adventures. The main character of the film is an old minister of a village church, a former Finnish Boy Paul Saar. In order to forward the political picture of that time, the filmmakers have used plenty of authentic film materials from Estonian and Finnish archives, NKVD files, documents of the Finnish Security Police, excerpts from President Paasikivi personal diary etc. 
Masing`s Landscape. Part III. Death is Lodging in the Field
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The documentary reflects Uku Masing's life as an inner migrant during the restricted conditions in the Soviet era, including the repressions by KGB and keeping quiet about the writer. The main channel for distributing Masing's work was manual copying. As the last part of the film trilogy, the film follows the scope and influence of such activity while combining the subjects of KGB, Masing's wife and manual copying of Masing's work based on recollections by about thirty people touched by the great man. 
Masing`s Landscape. Part II. The Son of Man in a White Boat
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People who got acquainted with Uku Masing in 1950s and grew stronger in time, either in Tallinn Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Estonian Museum of Literature in Tartu, or in Masing's apartment in Vilde (now Hurda) Street help to recollect memories about the acknowledged poet, theologian and teacher. Among others, Jaan Kaplinski, Vello Salo, Kalle Kasemaa, Hando Runnel, Andres Ehin, Ave Alavainu, Viivi Luik, Jaan Kiivit, Toomas Paul and Jaan Tooming share their memories and contemplate. 
Masing`s Landscape. Part I
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Uku Masing (11.08.1909-25.04.1985, born in Raikküla parish, Lipa village) was a theologician, Orientalist, philosopher, poet, folklorist and ethnologist. The residents of Masing's home village recall their memories about Uku Masing and his family; the documentary also reflects the events that took place during celebrating Masing's 90th anniversary in Estonia. 
Discarded Souls
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Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys
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Lennart Meri (1929–2006), a writer and a filmmaker, was elected twice the President of the Republic of Estonia, in 1992-2001. Over the course of 25 years Lennart Meri’s life and creative works were closely linked with Estonian film production. „Dances for the Milky Way” follows Lennart Meri's film quests since 1964 when he was invited to work as an script editor for Tallinnfilm, where he would quite soon become the key person for planning Estonian-Finnish film co-operation. „Dances for the Milky Way“ details the stories of the makings of Lennart Meri's anthropological documentaries on Finno-Ugric peoples, such as „The Waterfowl People“ (1970), „The Winds of the Milky Way” (1977), “The Sounds of Kaleva” (1986), “The Sons of Torum” (1989) and „The Shaman“ (1997). 
Elusive Landscapes
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The main characters in the documentary film "Elusive Landscapes" include Pille, Felix, Father Agaton, Hellat and Kateriina, who all live in Western Estonia. Pille, whose last surviving close relative is her daughter living in Finland, attempts to farm sheep alone while defying old age. Felix is worried about bees. Beehives remain empty, bee colonies are dying out, queens are not laying enough eggs for the new generations to hatch. Fields are being poisoned and primeval forests are being clear-cut. Father Agaton serves small local Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church congregations, performs blessings, and administers Communion. The Estonian Defense League member Hellat and his daughter Kateriina look for silver, which is supposedly buried in the ground.
Legend has it that Vikings reached the local seaside villages through a place called Neidsaare, through the reed turfs of the shallow bay. 
A Loss of Something Ever Felt
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Hille has a close relationship with her drug addict son. She sends him money every other week. After a fight they have over the phone, Lauri disappears mysteriously. His last known location is Bogotá, Colombia. At Hille's request, Lauri's sister, Eeva, reluctantly embarks on a journey and soon finds herself in the surreal and merciless underbelly of Bogotá. She contacts her only Colombian acquaintance, Carlos, who also lost his brother in the past, and they film their search for answers for a loss they both share. 
Sundial
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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 microcosm, which has consciously or unconsciously rejected the central, arrogant doctrine of human exceptionality. 
Lynx Man
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Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to get to know the lynx personally, learning their habits and habitats, relationships and individual characteristics. The spirit of the lynx permeates deeper and deeper into Hannu’s world as he becomes increasingly fascinated by theirs. 
The Weight of All the Beauty
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A poetical documentary about men who are so full of beauty, love and vitality but also so lonely. These men lived in Põdra village between sea and forest where the only one to play with is a bottle demon - Vodka Spirit. The only survivor Villi tells us the stories of his four friends and how they ended up being tricked by the Vodka Spirit. Villi takes us on a journey through the village, where the houses of his friends and the protective old trees live on as if nothing had happened. So if everyone else is dead, how is Villi still alive? 
Lembri Uudu
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Until Estonia’s re-independence in 1991, Pähkla village in Saaremaa had a kolkhoz which provided jobs for all the villagers. Lembri Uudu also worked in the kolkhoz as a tractor driver. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the kolkhoz was disbanded, most of Pähkla’s villagers lost their jobs and Uudu died. But sometimes it happens that a person’s vital force arises after death. Lembri Uudu died at such a time that he became a hero who still energizes the villagers and keeps the spirit of the kolkhoz alive. 
Better Tomorrow
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Six years after Finland opens up it's job market to new EU member states, a considerable number of Estonians have left their poorly paid jobs in Estonia in search of a better tomorrow in Finland. A bag that's always packed, a bed in an anonymous room, a kitchen that's used by countless people – these are lives on permanent standby. This is a story of a house near Helsinki, where ten Estonians live on the ground floor and Tomi, their employer, a Finn and a true Estophile, on the second. Tomi wonders why the Estonians don't do much with the free time on their hands or soak up the local culture, the Estonians however have a whole set of other concerns. 
Potato Republic
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Artist and event organizer Tarmo Ladva wants to achieve his goal to establish Potato Republic in Laanemetsa village, Taheva parish that is located in a peripheral region of Estonia. Potato Republic would serve as a museum to introduce potato as the symbol of Estonian food and to remember history. His high-flown ideas about creating a bath cinema and heritage theatre, however, get stuck due to financial difficulties and general skepticism. The man full of enthusiasm won't give up and gives it another try. 
Helene's School of Life
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A perfect teacher teaches her subject understandably with enthusiasm and passion. She is systematic. She is an authority and keeps the pupils interested in the subject. A perfect teacher is tolerant, friendly and supportive to pupils of different abilities. She develops herself professionally, collaborates with her colleagues and follows common European cultural practices." These words are from a want ad placed by an elite school looking for a physics teacher. But where should you start from when you are only 22 years old and standing in front of the class of a rural school for the first time? What kind of choices do you have to make to become an excellent teacher? 
Vertical Money
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The documentary is a nature catastrophe film that made scandalous news even before it’s release in Estonia. Shot in more than 60 different places in Estonia the film opens the viewer to the current state of Estonian forests and shows how political decisions have affected the use of the common property. The film also offers solutions to move out of the deadlock of the debate and directs attention to the information that has been buried under the messages of controlled communication in the information noise of the forest war. The same kind of war that's being held across the globe. 
Welcome to Estonia
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A Year Full of Drama
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Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more that bring despair. As her view of the world starts to expand, Alissija has to face traumas of the past to redefine herself and a future worth surviving for. Putting the main character through 224 shows in 365 days, this film serves as a true coming of age story, testing the human limit of consuming culture and asking whether art has the power to change a life. 
Shaman
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Shaman was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the shooting of the documentary The Winds of the Milky Way. 
The Waterfowl People
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A documentary about the history and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. 
Toilet
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Disco and Atomic War
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The playful documentary tells the story about a strange war of information in Estonian SSR during the 1980s when the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture. And the heroes won. Western pop culture played extremely important part in developing the world view of the Soviet youth - today this may seem rather weird. Finnish Television, that was visible only for people living in Northern Estonia, was the only window to the world of dreams and that was out of reach for the authorities to be banned. The documentary combines political action with fictional stories based on the memories of the children who grew up at that time. Filmmakers bring to the viewer a humorous treatment about recent history where intelligence games and human tragicomedy are intertwined. 
Walker on Water
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“Walker on Water” is a film about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin. 
Neeme Järvi. Trinity
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Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi is the head of a musical dynasty revolutionizing the musical life of Estonia and beyond. Neeme is also one of the most recorded conductors or even musicians in the world. His name appears on the front cover of more than half a thousand audio records, in addition to a hundred other audio carriers, on which he is one of the many creators. "If you think small, you can't make big music." says Neeme Järvi about it. In addition to his international reach and being the chief conductor of several world orchestras, he also has a mission as a cultural ambassador.
The film follows the internationally recognized and popular Neeme Järvi in his activities of the last four years in Estonia as well as in Prague, Vienna, Glasgow, and America. Neeme's nature is revealed by his family members and friends, as well as musicians who performed with him at concerts, Nicola Benedetti, Catriona Morison, Thomas Hampson, Joshua Bell, etc.
Hell's Stoker
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A portrait film about Seaküla Simson, one of the sculptors with the best sense of form in Estonia. It is impossible for a man who went through the war in Afghanistan to forget what he experienced. Again, and again the past catches up with him. Even in dreams. The only way to face your demons is to make fun of them.
The documentary captures the essence of the artist, the creative process and methods, and its fusion into a single whole. The film opens the soul, inner honesty and sincerity of the creator and shows the sculptures and objects through an exciting angle, which gives a good overview of the artist's works, their difficult and complex production process.
The Russians on Crow Island
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The Crow Island on the River Narva was the place where Krenholm Manufacturing Company was founded in 1857. The company provided work for 13 000 employees during its best days. The textile factory was closed for good in 2010. During the past few decades, more than ten thousand workers have lost their job. Younger Russians, the descendants of the generation of Krenholm employees, living in Narva tell their dreary story of life. Their harsh monologues tell about abandonment, street life, alcohol, drugs and prison. Most of them have grown up with severe mental and physical traumatic experiences. They have no power, hope nor will to struggle out of their situation. 
Jonathan from Australia
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Residents of a bright green house in Mustjala, a small place in Saaremaa, tell about their hard life - most of them are constantly drunk. A few kilometers away, a great deep port is being constructed where a huge German cruise ship Lili Marleen lands, accompanied by fireworks and salute. German tourists can watch the performances of wedding games in Mustjala. However, construction of the port and the arrival of the white cruise ship won't change anything in the lives of local people. The residents of the green house will stay friends with beer and vodka. The documentary reveals a depressive truth that is behind an Estonian success story. 
Big Swamp
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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. 
Lutsepa lugu
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Savikodu
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Child of Nature
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Everything she needs for living, Mari gets from nature. Pollen and dew drops are part of her daily menu. From autumn to spring Mari's only food consists only of freshly squeezed juice and water. In summer she also eats a handful of berries strait from the forest or her own garden and sleeps right there - under the open sky. She spends her days picking herbs and making tinctures of wasp's nests and toadstools. Who could have thought that some years ago this girl was a model on a Playboy cover... 
Täkutallinn
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The Art of Selling
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The young democracy explores the practices of the market economy. Eager for change, Raigo, a young student of theology and Mare, rather passive middle-aged widow, together with several others try their luck in the selling business. All you need to do is follow the path of Peep, Estonian star in motivation training, or Evelin, who in just a few years turned from a dull mother of twins into a happy, emancipated, and successful businesswoman. But is everything in life a matter of how you sell yourself? Can Evelin’s motto „manipulate and be manipulated” lead everyone to happiness? And does the church really sell God? 
Choose Order
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The most sensational Estonian satirical documentary film of 2004 talks about a so called new political order, which uses the nations need for a firm ruling hand. EstoTV will follow the political party as well as the prime minister to uncover conspiracies and to remove scum from the streets. EstoTV will conceal themselves into the layers of society to uncover our xenophobia, racism and hatred. 
New World
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Anatomy of a revolution: this is the story about people, relationships and a big change. The New World is a district in Tallinn where there is a group of young active people - some consider them noisy roisterers, some think that they are some gang of hippies, and some take them as heroes. The members of the New World Society started as an anarchistic group of urban guerrillas whose mission was to fight for healthier and more car-free environment, causing issues of public order. However, at some point their efforts were crowned with appreciation, attention and financial support. What will be left of craziness when it has to be packed within a project at some point? How is it possible to keep alive the creative chaos throughout years? What about human relationships that won't obey the project logic? 
Kuku: I Will Survive
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Estonias most talented film actor who consistantly drowned his talent into the bottle now tries to win back trust and get his life back. 
Suled või glamuur
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The Radical
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Legendary entertainer Margus Lepa, who also played the role of Jorh Adniel Kiir entered the rows of left-wing politicians, then left these with a scandal and made a radical change – now being a right-wing radio program leader. Margus Lepa is a one-man band – he interviews, provokes, argues, and reveals both real and imaginary conspiracy theories in his radio programs. Filmmakers attempt to find out what is behind this total transformation and who are the people finding solace from Margus Lepa's bitter rhetoric’s. 
Viirusekandur
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Vanad kalad
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Kuulugu
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The Gold Spinners
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The Gold Spinners is a story about the birth, glory, and disappearance of a peculiar, invisible, and mighty business empire, the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm, the only company producing commercials in the Soviet Union. 
Soviet Hippies
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A wildflower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement takes you into the psychedelic underground of the 1970s. In search of freedom and happiness under the thumb of the strict political regime a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds, and other long-haired dropouts created their own System in the Soviet Union. Years later, a group of eccentric hippies take a road journey to Moscow where people still gather annually on the 1st of June to commemorate a tragic event in 1971, when thousands of hippies were arrested by the KGB. 
Rodeo - Taming a Wild Country
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It is 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since World War II have to the surprise of all brought to power young and idealistic political forces. They are led by 32-year-old Mart Laar, Europe’s youngest prime minister, who is charged with crafting a country out of chaos. This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day. 
u.Q.
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To understand the international phenomenon of Uku Kuut means to understand the ability of different musical niches, sub-genres, and hidden creative explosions to not only exist, but flourish, completely independently of the mainstream. Kuut’s life, mothered by Maryn E.Coote (who you may know as the Estonian Jazz diva Marju Kuut), took him from the Soviet Union to refuge in Sweden, music studios in Los Angeles, back to a re-independent Estonia and later, fighting ALS, to speakers all around the world.
A Greek comedy captured on 8mm, VHS and BETA tape.
Ahto. Chasing A Dream
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A documentary about Ahto Valter, a big dreamer, a great adventurer and sailor whose journey around the world on a sailboat that carries his name makes young boys yearn for adventure, young ladies write love letters and reporters follow him everywhere. Nobody knew what was this motivator that made him do it. A hero's restless mind, hardships over the years chasing his dream and failures on the way can be seen in the film that uses unique archive material to open the cravings and challenges of an explorer from the previous century. A colorful journey around the world can be observed thanks to the diaries of our main hero and his father and the unique film footage that was recorded during the journey. This is a story of an adventurer's life and becoming a sailor and a man and a film about the world he had to struggle against to fulfill his dream. 
Uncle Arvo
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Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The story of Estonia’s oldest youtuber, influencer and star-chef, Uncle Arvo. The story of food and hunger for life. 
DeStudio. Hangover
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A documentary with an experimental approach about the time travel of two 2020s artists to the 90s, where they meet their young selves. 
Trail Baltic
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A documentary about a woman's journey along the future route corridor of the Rail Baltic railway. While trying to broadcast live from the 213km long route, the artist Hanna Samoson meets people on her way whose lives will be inextricably linked with the future railway.
Through hopes, humour and the pain of loss, "Trail Baltic" shows how people affected by the huge project feel. The film's backdrop is an unbroken landscape that, but all indications, is destined to change soon.
Our story could also be told about the Nursipalu military training ground, the pulp mill by Emajõgi or the nuclear power plant, because in all these examples big technological ideal collides with the desire to preserve something that is extremely important to some of us.
This is not a traditional documentary, it is a road movie through bushes, ditches, bogs and groves. It is a film where encounters with people are random, direct, and honest. A film that is neither for or against Rail Baltic, but that shows the plurality of opinions, the process of coping with changes, and captures life and landscapes in one vanishing moment in time.
Vigala Sass - viimased lindid
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The Diary of Vaino Vahing
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In 1968–1984, Vaino Vahing kept a diary about real events and persons in his own subjective interpretation. It reflects the cultural life of Tartu, love affairs, bohemian parties, and intellectual quests of the time. Vahing was interested in borderline situations, crossing the borders. He drew no clear line between art and life. Vahing provoked people, tried to make them lose their masks, their self-control. He called this provoking the Spiel or play. We are looking at a creator who has made disharmony his source of inspiration, who experiences “the greatest torment in love”. One who fears to lose himself in love. A human perceiving the great power of love and responding subconsciously with disharmony. The red line in the diary of Vahing is sacrificing life for art. The life where everyday burns to ashes and nothing but pure art remains. Is this possible at all or do we still have to try to love first?
To err is human, as well as to suffer from the consequences. But does a person suffer just because erring, or is suffering an inevitable part of a human being? A part, deeper reasons of which remain a secret?
The film does not try to judge Vahing but cast some light into these black holes on the verge of which he performed his balancing act that makes him human and his creations ever enchanting.
Tõnu Kõrvits. Moorland Elegies
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Tõnu Kõrvits is a composer in his fifth decade who doesn’t open up easily. Though he is one of the most performed Estonian composers, Tõnu prefers to remain in the shadows. His person and music carry a secret that only unravels for those who can see behind the words, who forget themselves in the music and let the sounds Tõnu created take them along on a mystical, poetical journey that changes anyone who arrives at the end. The film “Moorland Elegies” is named after Tõnu’s nine-part choir cycle, based on Emily Brontë’s almost gothic, dark poetry, that invokes spiritual conditions delicately translated into natural imagery. Tõnu’s enchantingly powerful “Moorland Elegies” has been one of the most sold classical records on the Amazon charts and forms the musical and material core of the film. This is a film about a composer, his music and the people who are deeply touched by his music: Doris Kareva, Tõnis Kõrvits, Mark Raidpere, Kersti Kaljulaid, Gunnar Männik, Rein Ränk, Tiit Käit, Virve Liitvee. 
Machina Faust
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An intimate documentary about the internationally renowned Estonian musician, saxophone player and improvisational jazz composer Maria Faust. 
Estonians on the Summit of America
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The top of American continent – Aconcagua – saw the flag of Estonia twice in 1997. Exactly 100 years after the mountain was first conquered, two Estonian groups followed the same track under the guidance of "snow leopards" Tõivo Sarmet and Jaan Künnap. This documentary is a colourful story about the experiences of mountaineers led by Jaan Künnap. 
Last Man Standing
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Lighthouse keeper Avo Piisk has worked in the lighthouse of Vilsandi island for ten years. In summer 2004 Avo is laid off since the lighthouse will be maintained by a computer program. Even if Avo Piisk has got used to the idea that one day he had to leave his job, he does not want to go. He is certain that without him the Viljandi lighthouse will be destroyed, first due to the large number of tourists and then due to storms and rains. 
Cho-Oyu
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In the autumn of 1998, the first Estonian expedition to the top of world's sixth highest mountain Cho-Oyu (8201 m) in Himalayan mountains took place. Estonians first surrendered the border of 8000 meters. The victory, however, did not come quickly since nature put the alpinists to the test. They decided to attack Cho-Oyu from Tibetan side as it provided the opportunity to get familiar with the Tibetan way of life. The main heroes of the travel documentary by Riho Västrik are the ten Estonian alpinists who took part in the expedition, as well as the Tibetan culture and their main companions - yaks. Not to mention the beauty of mountains. 
Journey to the Source of Lena
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Gentle Warriors
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Documentary by Marija Stonytė takes us on the journey of a girl becoming a warrior in the military and in her own life.
A few years ago military conscription for men was reintroduced in Lithuania.
Simultaneously, there were a number of young women who decided to voluntarily register for military service. We follow 3 of these girls for 9 months as they live and train among 600 men at an isolated military base. Three girls – three totally unique characters, come from very different social backgrounds. One joined the army with the aim of starting a new life, another - to find love, the third - to prove herself strong and able to defend her country from the possible threat of Russian aggression. Their romantic visions of being a soldier are soon altered as they begin their service and their expectations are challenged by harsh reality. 
The Warlord
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Master Hunter: Portrait of Mati Hõbemägi
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Mati Hõbemägi was a head of socialist agricultural holding in Järva county, Estonia. After the collapse of the Soviet regime Mati decided to turn the page in his life. During a decade, Mati together with his supporters have made local forests known across Europe. Every year, hunters take about 200 tons of grain to the forests, make large forage areas and pay close attention to the fact that all activities related to the forests would be in accordance with laws and the code of ethics. Nevertheless, there are still people whose careless behaviour causes irreversible harm to nature. 
Karula National Park
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Karula National Park is situated almost on the southern border of Estonia, far away from big towns. It is a small world – one landscape, one forest, and one parish. The Karula landscape came into being 12 thousand years ago. Estonia was then covered with thick ice, which started to melt and therefore created several unusual shapes of landscape such as the rounded hills, stretched eskers, and ice flow melting slopes. All these forms make Karula almost a textbook example of an ice age-shaped landscape. 
Man with the Top Hat
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Portrait documentary about Valeri Kirss - the organizer of beauty contests, a stubborn man who restored the tradition of beauty contests and who managed to hold around ten annual beauty contests in Estonia since 1992. Filmmakers follow the enthusiastic and hyperactive man during the times he was at the peak of his glory when Estonians knew exactly who the last Miss Estonia was. The recorded materials that have been unused for more than a decade have acquired extra value for making the colourful personal story as well as a funny retrospective describing the social life in Estonia during the turn of the century. The documentary observes Kirss's activities in the year of 2000 when Miss Estonia Evelyn Mikomägi reached among the top ten in Miss Universe Beauty Contest. 
Tallinn City Symphony
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Every city can be compared to a symphony orchestra that is performing music without a score. Yet, the seemingly independent urban chaos can open up an enchanting composition when you have to ability to see and hear. “Tallinn City Symphony” is the foreigners (residing here for years) look to our capital city. 
Estonian Nature: Alam-Pedja
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Alam-Pedja is one of the largest nature reserves in Estonia, where there are wide valleys on the banks of flowing rivers, rare floodplain forests and swamps between the rivers. The nature there runs in a primeval rhythm, as it has been doing for the past millennia, and the human influence in this primeval nature is just as much as is needed to preserve the large communities created with the help of man - flood plains. However, the second largest city in Estonia is located nearby, from where more and more people move by boat along the rivers to Alam-Pedja, and the area is also surrounded by large highways where the flow of cars never stops. The face of Alam-Pedja is something primal and untouched, which reminds us of where we came from. 
Life on the Mother River
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The River Emajõgi (Mother river) forms a powerful water world hiding an ancient life. Little Aleksander together with his filmmaker father Remek Meel discover Alam-Pedja nature reserve and the secrets of its enchanting world. Father and son get acquainted with the hidden life of eagles, beavers, otters, waxwings, great snipes, ravens, penduline tits and Ural owls. 
The House Guard
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Portrait documentary about two characters - Tallinn Linnahall and its guard Peeter.
Once the pride of Tallinn, Linnahall has become a desolate building; yet, it has its own faithful supporters. In every three days, Peter works 24-hour shift here as a guard. The monumental palace of culture and sports was built for the summer olympic games in 1980 - the building that now looks as a ghost castle. Peeter loves this somber house - its grandiosity still reminds of the glorious old days. The guard knows that when the building stays empty it will perish just like a man without a soul. And now the solitary man serves as the soul of the abandoned building. 
Snow Leopard
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Snow Leopard was an honorary title awarded to Soviet mountaineers who had conquered every 7000-metre high summits in the Soviet Union. This title of honour was also given to Estonian top mountaineer and photographer Jaan Künnap. Künnap concentrated on mountaineering in 1970s. As a photographer, Künnap has been internationally acknowledged mostly for his photos of mountains. Besides mountains he is also inspired by female body. The documentary focuses on the three main things in Künnap's life: photography, mountains and women. Yet, alpinism opens up another side in Künnap - the Snow Leopard is a youth tutor. During the filmmaking (1998-1999), Künnap reaches the understanding that a mountaineering school must be established. 
Bonus Track
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Sven Grünberg is a composer, musician, Buddhist thinker, the “importer” of Dalai Lama, the father - to name some role in his life. Of course, he is also a son, a husband, a brother, teacher, man. He is a personality with well-established world view. Despite contact with Buddhism, he is a man with strict expression, who is always ready to take a responsibility for what he said.
A few years ago Grünberg suffered complicated heart surgery and began to look on life differently. "Bonus Track" portrays post-surgery Sven Grünberg, while he continues to create new music, takes care that his earlier works be arranged, raising preschool daughter and organizing for the third time the visit of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in to Estonia. 
Landscape patterns
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The nature documentary filmmakers move through all four seasons and four basic landscape types in Estonia: the swamp, the forest, the coast and the wooded meadow. Everything that appears in front of the camera lens, including people, will become a part of the landscape pattern. People have habitated Estonian territory for more than 10 thousand years. Withdrawal of the ice cap created a habitat that has been adjusted to human needs during thousands of years. Lots of fields, pasture lands and hayfields have been created; the forests have been cut and planted. Unnecessary profit making has been avoided. The variety of Estonian landscapes combines wilderness, semi-natural communities and cultivated land. 
On the Waves of Life
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The Baltic herring fishing season lasts only one month for coastal fishermen. As authorized catches are to be used collectively by fishermen, each missed hour of fishing is translated into a decrease in income. The fishermen themselves compare the situation to an Olympic running race: once the race is on, there is no mercy until the finish line is crossed. 
Bridges Of Time
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Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. 
Rauaniit
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To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy.
An observational documentary by Maria Aua is about the reconstruction of the former textile factory into the Academy of Arts. The process of transformation is the result of the selfless and hard physical work of the builders. A glamorous opening party takes place in the newly completed modern house, the rooms are filled with new kind of people, there are no builders … 
Patarei
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Immortal
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The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions? 
Old Man and the Moose
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A poetical nature film about an old forest man, Harri, and his passion for moose. Harri Põldsam has been almost magnetically drawn to the woods to watch the mating season for moose every autumn for almost half a century. Over the years, this observation has become an inseparable part of his life. 
A Fragile World
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The film depicts two different worlds - man made and natural - opposites both in terms of content and form. One of the most striking features of Estonian nature are its bog landscapes. Bogs act as a kind of filter by absorbing exhaust gas and cleaning the air for people to breathe. Bogs are also good at safeguarding groundwater. Still, it is not all blue skies ahead for these natural landscapes.
The film depicts two different worlds, opposites both in terms of content and form. Products of evolution, the irregular natural landscapes together with their inhabitants stand in opposition to manmade regularity, perfectly straight mining fields.
War over the Flying Squirrel
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With their plans to expand the protected zone of the Siberian flying squirrel, a species on the verge of extinction, nature conservationists have upset the landowners of the protected areas. The owners are deprived of the opportunity to earn income from their forestland, without being offered adequate compensation. A couple of dozen families in Viru County must assume the nature conservation responsibility of “the whole of Estonia”. They are clearly not interested in being bestowed all that honour and decide to take on the battle of defending their rights. The ensuing passion is difficult to keep under control. The film observes this process during one year from the trenches on both sides of the front line. 
Tühi aeg
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Talwe
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A movie about Tallinn in winter. Views of the streets of the old town, Toompea and the harbor. Sailboats in the winter apartment. Pedestrians and traffic on snowy streets, skiers and sledders in Kadriorg. A snowed-in train. Snow removal from the streets. An icebreaker takes ships from the harbor to the open sea. 
The Gardener of Tension Fields
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The mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar is on a journey. In such days, where he walks alone for days in a wild thicket towards the vast meadows, he calls the poor man’s pilgrimages. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can still speak the language of animals and birds and see what is invisible to the eye. There will be seven meetings along the way for the traveler, which will open the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar to the viewer. 
Gori The Caricaturist
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A richly animated documentary about the extremely popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror. In the Fellini-like world of Gori (1894-1944), farce and drama, mockery and big politics mix. There is no subject that Gori's pen will not mock until the winds turn and mouths are being closed. Power is concentrated in the hands of new dictators. And that power fears nothing more than its own ridiculousness. However, ridiculing the enemy is one of his most effective weapons.
Gori the Caricaturist by Raimo Jõerand is all about talent. About the artist's temptation to waste and share his talent when it is accompanied by applause, and about the obligation to serve his talent even if it leads straight to destruction. Here, documentary narrative and grotesque animation intertwine. The story of a man who drew himself to death. 
The Wind Sculpted Land
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An epic documentary of Estonian wild nature where versatile landscapes with wild animals and thousands of migrating bird flocks are screened. The main character of the film is our biggest forest mammal - moose. The journey in the wilderness opens our past endeavours, calls and character, all of which the landscapes have held and sculpted through thousands of years. 
14 Cases
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A feature documentary taking a fresh look at the present-day Russians living in Estonia. The film focuses on personal stories of born in Estonia young people who are the descendants of migrants from the Soviet era, representing almost the third generation. Although they lived their whole life surrounded by Estonian national symbols and colours, lifestyle and cuisine, they still speak Russian as their mother tongue, got secondary education in Russian language, listen and watch Russian radio and television, and gravitate towards Russian culture. They feel belonging to the history of Russia and Russian consciousness. Some of them face an identity crisis: a conflict of national identity with civil identity. But most of Baltic Russians feel an awareness of difference, the recognition of being not fully integrated into the society. A lot of Russian high school graduates leave country to study abroad and never return. At the same time there are also those who feel obsessed with languages and cheated by the politics but love and prefer to live in Estonia. 
The Last Relic
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A spirited Yekaterinburg University student battles to find common ground among Russian political activists and opposition groups. Meanwhile, political turmoil brews in the divided country, as it prepares for the end of President Putin’s final constitutional term. 
Matz
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Coming-of-age film about 21 year-old disabled swimmer Matz Topkin who paves his way to Paralympics through incredible efforts and for a dream bigger than himself. 
Life of Ivanna
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Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian arctic and mother of 5 kids, is forced to emigrate from the traditional way of life to the city, due to the fast deteriorating conditions of life in the tundra. With great intimacy and empathy, this film portrays the struggle of Ivanna to gain control over her life and future. 
Tuult püüdes
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Tales of a Toy Horse
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An intimate and poetic cinema verite with animated interludes reveals the philosophy of life of an old monk and artist, who for many years keeps his monastic vow to find something good in every day. Combining spiritual life with social activism since 2014, he takes multiple trips to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbas, where his vow is challenged by the war-torn reality. 
Kolm kevadet
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Killuke kodumaad
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Eduard Vilde
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Kivid ja leib
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Kivine hällilaul
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Janu vee ääres
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Roots
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"Roots" tells six very personal stories - a first, big love, the loss of a child, ageing, infidelity, fragile relationships with close ones. Six different views on what our family and environment has left in us and what we leave behind.
The authors are six Estonian female directors between the ages 29 and 61 who are also mothers, daughters and wives. And why not lovers and world travellers. The film takes place in Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Thailand and Estonia.
Stories and authors:
A POEM ABOUT LOVE / directed by Nora Särak
WAITING FOR A MIRACLE / directed by Aljona Suržikova
WOMBSTONE / directed by Kersti Uibo
40 YEARS LATER / directed by Moonika Siimets
WITH MOM AT THE MONASTERY / directed by Anna Hints
MY FLESH AND BLOOD / directed by Heilika Pikkov
"Roots" was made in the frame of the Estonia 100 centenary programme. 
Fuel for Life
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Margit has left her life, career and apartment in a big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow nettle. She believes there's a power in this plant that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched the nettle and its qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an entrepreneur?
Margit’s daughter Nele, a well known youtuber, will try to help out. So in addition to highs and lows of the new start-up, we’ll be taken along to the journey of a relationship between mother and a daughter. 
The Tortoise And The Hare
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A story of a mother and son and the race against a turtle where you always lose. 
Why Don't I leave?
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Kati , Triin and Siiri moved to London for a year or two to learn English and gain new experiences. Today, over ten years has passed, they have started families and seems like the future is now abroad. The longing for homeland has remained but returning to Estonia is frightening. Why is going home suddenly so complicated? 
Timeless
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There are crimes that won't expire. One June night in 1941, Soviet authorities deported more than 10,000 people to Siberia from Estonia. Those who stayed alive in Siberia and made it back to homeland will have the chance to speak in the film. FIlmmaker Andres Sööt, whose family was also among those breaking apart because of the deportation in 1941, dedicates the film to all those sent to Siberia. This is a timeless responsibility - not to forget. 
Ten patriotic speeches
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Ants Paju is about to fulfill his long-time dream to erect a statue of plowing Kalevipoeg in memory of all farmers and for uniting Estonian people with their country and the past. The monumental sculpture on the 127th kilometre on Tallinn-Tartu road is Ants's gift to his fatherland and his nation. On one hand, the documentary is a portrait of a man who fulfills his dream, on the other hand the film generalizes the difficulties of carrying out such a monumental project. Ants Paju's exuberant energy has attracted numerous donators, people from the field of culture and loca government, sportsmen and local people; however Ants himself has become contemplative and emotional. 
Time to Love
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Seven middle-aged people live and work in a small place called Tabivere in Central Estonia. In their sincere and heartfelt interviews they openly speak about their ups and downs in life. Life in a remote rural place is not easy as many locals are unemployed. Even those who have a job won't be able to afford much. The lives of the seven people portrayed in the film have not been easy - everyone has experienced certain tragic events in their lives. Despite that, all of them are still able to feel happiness, appreciate small things in life, love their close ones and family. They come together to the amateur theatre in Tabivere in order to add some creativity in their lives. 
The Statue
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Well-known sculptor Tauno Kangro and his businessmen friends have come to an idea to create a monumental statue of Kalevipoeg, a hero in Estonian national epic, in the Bay of Tallinn. This has brought along sharp criticism.
It is the year of 2000. Despite of the fact that lots of work has been already done, the final solution is still far away. The documentary emphasizes the complicated relations between Estonian culture, media and enterprise. The city is offered a free monument and there is not a single tangible reasons to say no. The disputing parties will never agree due to different aesthetic attitudes, and there are various suspicions on the issue which authority the statue will embody. 
Fragile is the Night
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They say that human life hangs by a thread. Every moment, every second, day or night, summer or winter, from the very first breath to the last one, in health and in sickness - the thread may be broken any time. Not much is needed to make it happen. Calling the helpline is the last hope for those in need and the last connection to the outer world. Depression, loneliness, hopelessness, problematic situations - these are main subjects of these calls. The helpline advisers are attentive listeners and know how to dissolve distress and worry. They are just like kind angels who welcome the people with problems back to life. 
Verba Dierum: a year with Marju Lepajõe
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This film is about Marju Lepajõe, who was a classical philologist, a religious historian and a lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tartu. With a witty charm, Marju reflects on the modern world, where the need and the ability to deal with a subject matter in depth have become insignificant. Even universities, temples of erudition and culture, are losing their intellectual aspect. Where can a scholar find their place in these unfavourable circumstances? The viewers get a chance to follow Marju on her path towards refined wording and personal truth. This is an encounter that broadens the mind, offers comfort and inspires. 
War
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Who is a (professional) soldier in today’s world? How does he cross the Bridge of Death? Does he have to sacrifice himself for the chain of command in order to participate in situations where none of what he was taught in childhood applies anymore? Where do you draw the line between justified and unjustified suffering? Euphemisms may not work on a personal level. The glorification of war has aggravating, not alleviating effects.
War is a story about a peacekeeper, who after having returned from a mission could not come to terms with his life anymore, with the life between the present and the eternity. The documentary was filmed in Afghanistan and Australia. 
Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia
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The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history. 
Siberian Vacation
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When spending her holiday in her parents' home village Verkhniy Suetuk in Siberia, young Estonian Anne recognizes something that she could not expect – her roots. What should she do when her heart belongs here but her life is in Estonia? 
Water in a Sieve. Merle Karusoo
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The film about Merle Karusoo, the Estonian stage director and collector of local biographies, takes a look at the stories of her own life, reflecting on her personal beliefs and the role of remembering throughout life. 
… ja naised
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A Human is Born…
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Coming into this world is an important event in a person’s life, perhaps the most important. The film purely and sincerely captures the moments of birth. In the 1970s, it was rare for filmmakers to be able to film in a maternity hospital. Director Leida Laius and cameraman Arvo Iho succeeded. What’s more, the shots taken with a hidden camera are genuine, warm and humanly honest. 
Jäljed lumel
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For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives
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Trash is piling up worldwide. To save the environment and the future of their children, young mothers have decided to find food for their family from supermarkets’ trash bins. 
Bigger Than Sports
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Former Olympic athlete and female wrestler Epp Mäe's coach Arvi Aavik starts forming the first Estonian female national team where the athletes and coaches are working according to his training plan.
Uncompromised and passionate Aavik, once called "A Crazy Coach", does not stop there - he wants to create something bigger than sports. He wants to erase the line between the coach and the athlete, trying to create a human touch. 
The Heritage. Anu Raud
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Textile artist Anu Raud enjoys life on her grandfather’s farm in Kääriku. She has never thought about demolishing something there just because it’s old. Or to change something just for the act of changing something. She likes to be surrounded by life. Anu also likes small things - they just fit the country life. She longs to see small roads and small villages. She believes that in small places, people can grow much larger than in large places. And in large places, she thinks people just stay small. 
Leonardo from Randvere
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Endel Saarepuu was born to be an artist. No other role that life has offered for Endel, has ever lasted. The house, where his family was once supposed to live, has now become a home for hundreds or wooden sculptures, stained glass works and drawings. The older the artist gets, the easier his life becomes and the more talking is his work.
A sketch on a piece of paper or the client's wish is just an impulse. The final result is dictated by the material and the working process. Natural phenomena affect wooden sculptures and people's thoughts change the meaning of the created forms. Everything that is made, will be something else after a while. 
Estonian Rhapsody
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A film about the Estonians’ favorite folk band Kukerpillid, which after half a century of activity undertakes to update its repertoire with pieces by contemporary composers. Maybe this will bring into being new folk songs, which years later everyone will know by heart again. The band's spirited journey through the summer concert venues of Estonia, with interludes to its roots, would allow us to expect this. 
Art of Righteous
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A behind the scenes documentary into the making of the film “Õiglus”. 
Foster Mothers
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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. 
Horsepower
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Horsepower is a unit that has dropped behind in time. Also dropping in time are the machines using fossil fuels, and even human relations, at least in the way that the older generations see them. In the 1920s, vehicles with combustible engines began to take over the work done by the horses. Just a hundred years later, virtual reality is in the beginning of its triumph, as is physical solitude that comes with it.
Risto Kappet is a professional e-athlete who spends his workdays in the corner of his room, turning the steering wheel of car simulator. Turning the wheel in front of the computer used to be his hobby, but in the recent years he's been earning an average Estonian salary, competing as a professional with the world's best on the virtual circuits of the world. 
Lil Estonia
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Helmed by SoundCloud and radio-DJ Siim Nestor, something new is happening in Estonian music. Something not seen in a long time, much less heard. A new wave. New characters. A new Estonia. Lil Estonia! An anatomy of a generation in Estonia in 2020. 
The Best of Salieri
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It is time to get out of the closet and show the world your teeth. The director, who considers himself to be Mozart, has been tootling with his films on the festival circuit for years, waiting for a big breakthrough. For an inexplicable reason, the world has not recognised his talent. Still, only Salieris have garnered the fame and the fortune. There is a simple conclusion. The world has not learned anything in 200 years and keeps repeating the same mistake.
If all else fails, justice must be established by force and the world shown its proper place. Taking a bath, the great director is hit by a divine revelation – a manifesto is born to open the world’s eyes. The megalomaniac embarks on a crusade against a large and monstrous enemy, the system. This film will end the rule of the patron saint of all mediocre creators, Salieri, once and for all. 
Long Live the Scandals!
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Leonhard Lapin is the classic and the enfant terrible of Estonian contemporary art, constantly followed by scandals, lewd legends, and envious grumbling. Lapin confidently steps on the cornea of mediocrity, enjoying the situation to the fullest. Loved by his muses, the artist is not ashamed of his dalliances. He still has plenty at the grand old age of 70. The new Estonian film opens the doors to a disappearing Bohemianism, in which racy vocabulary reigns instead of political correctness. 
In Bed With A Writer
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The film's protagonist Peeter is a known and recognised writer in his home country. He has published 25 books. He has received eight national awards. The people have nicknamed him the Filth Writer. Peeter does not care about recognition, he drinks, parties, and often makes statements, which upset people. As a rule, Peeter writes about his bawdy life and unhappy relationships with women. After divorce, Peeter hasn't written in over a year. No woman, no fights, nothing to write about. Peeter's favourite writer and role model Bukowsky did not write for seven years. In his depression, Peeter comes up with the hare-brained idea of trying different roles: he learns striptease, offers to model for a racist photographer, dabs in masochism, tries to get in bed with artists and writers, sleeps on his parents' graves - basically, tests the limits with all sorts of imbecilities in order to escape the numbness. The result is a unique absurdity walking the line between dark humour and tragedy, occasionally crossing it. 
Emumäe Eedi ja Lobi küla Kristjan
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Punane varietee
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Year of the Pig
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Monitoring a controversial year in the recent history of our country-the year 2019, an extensive visual essay of imminent serious challenges has been created by the author Raimo Jõerand. From winning the War of Independence to gaining freedom from Russian occupation during the Singing Revolution, we now have to defend our land from the brightest of foes, from ourselves. Will we be able to take on this fight? 
Tsirkuselaps
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Ideaalide tund
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Riigivargad
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Baskin
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Mephistopheles
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This happened a few years ago in Santiago de Compostela, in the world's oldest hotel. I had presented what I thought was a brilliant idea to Linnar Priimägi at the tea table, when the esteemed professor became irritated and unleashed Mephistopheles from himself. This was quite a firework. In the next 15 minutes, I learned the whole truth about myself. Priimägi wondered how the earth could ever carry such a stupid person. After finishing his enlightening diatribe at my address, he relented and said, “Manfred, you have to make a movie about me.” I refused immediately. I may be stupid, but not as stupid to make a film about Priimägi. Unfortunately, things went differently, and Mephistopheles achieved his will. I'm not going to retell the content of the film here, which would be as pointless as revealing a punchline before the anecdote is told. Let me just say that this film is a revenge for all the bitter words I have had to hear at my address. Or, as Goethe writes in Faust, "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good." 
The Story Of Peep Puks
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An old filmmaker Peep Puks has directed 61 documentaries and created almost 40 programmes for television. In this film, he looks back on a lost time, the films that have accompanied him, and the colleagues without whom this all wouldn’t have happened. It’s an aspect of stories of the first post-war generation of Estonia and the birth of the Estonian documentary. 
More than Life
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Freddy Grenzmann is Estonia’s last rock star and the singer of the punk rock band Psychoterror. He’s also a poet. The rock star phenomenon is beyond ordinary norms. It’s larger than life. It can approvingly be said of Freddy that he isn’t normal – not on stage nor in life. Freddy’s oeuvre and life are equivalent – he gives everything his all. What makes Freddy interesting is not the delight of social or textual games but rather the magnitude of what he puts at stake, the possibility of completely losing himself, and the depth of foreseeable human or metaphysical distress.
Annika Laats. Risti aarded
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Jagatud valgus
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Language Rebel. Mati Hint
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The film summarizes the life and creative path of Mati Hint, an outstanding linguist, essayist, lecturer and who played an important role during the restoration of Estonia’s independence. 
Time is here
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Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are seven years old and will start going to school. They live in different spots in Estonia – Tallinn, Tiduvere, Tudulinn and Võru. They are all different children with different schools and teachers. Yet, time is the same for all of them, passing by the same way. Where will they be at the end of their first schoolyear? 
Out of Fashion
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We live in an era of global consumption where the rate of consumption is constantly increasing. It’s no secret that the fashion industry is at the forefront of this consumption rally. Thousands of factories in the third world produce not only clothing for big corporations, but also tons and tons of toxic waste.
Fashion designer Reet Aus has an ambitious plan to change the world. Aus has realized that the only way to fight against the fashion industry is from the inside.
The documentary “Out of Fashion” follows Reet Aus’s journey from Tallinn, through the fashion stages of Europe and the cotton plantations of South America, and right into the epicenter of mass production in Bangladesh. 
Valgelillepäev Tartus
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Suur lumetuisk Baltimaal jõulukuul
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Vaatepilte Võrumaalt
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Retk läbi Setumaa
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Tartu linn ja ümbrus
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Valimised
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Leib
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Töö
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Leelo
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The white land of Enderby
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When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need for human closeness and understanding, with the backdrop of ancient nature. The soundtrack for the film was composed by Arvo Pärt. 
Juhan Liivi lugu
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Voldemar Vaga
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Lapsepõlv
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Valge palavik
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The Winds of Milky Way
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Documentary of cultural anthropology about the ethnography and ethnogenesis of the Finno-Ugric peoples is a sequel to the documentary "The Waterfowl People" (1970) directed by Lennart Meri. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970. The film was the first international co-production completed in collaboration with Finnish Mainos TV and Hungarian Television. 
Kuku sa, kägu…
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Teadus ja praktika
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Tuld kuningale
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Vabastuse tund
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Orel
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Inimeste maja
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Aastatega läbi Toompea lossi
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Hea saak?…
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Nende vastus
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Hetked
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Adra järel
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Ma kardan kõrgust...
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Ketrajad
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Missioon
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Konsultant
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Episood
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Paljakäsi
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Tänav 79
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Sinu nimi…
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Maaparandus kuppelaladel
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Teine leib
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Elamise lugu
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Raske sügis
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Kutsumus
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Allika poole mineja
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Tallinn 80
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Lihtsalt kindral
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Eluvanne
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Passioon
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Arnold Matteus
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Paljassaarelt Piritale
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Tõravere
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Ärge tapke vihmaussi
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Fotorondo
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Roheline pomm
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Kellamäng
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Sekretärid
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X koolimaailmas
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Ma tahaksin kodus olla
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Magnet? Maagia?
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Hoovad
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Teel
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Anna Aaveri argipäev
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Jaan Oad
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Jälle kevad
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Künnimehe väsimus
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Ruja
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Tõnu Kaljuste täna, 1982
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Kassilaane
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Tee
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Põhjavaim
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Üks aasta kolmesaja viiekümnest
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Tartu Ülikool XIX sajandil
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Karjapoiss on kuningas
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... And the Soup Is Ready in Time
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Portrait documentary about the everyday life of the workers of a workers' canteen, about their worries and joys. These are people responsible for what they do and who find satisfaction in their work in the Klementi sewing enterprise. 
Aeg
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Minu raamat
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Kind Hometown Spirits
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As a result of the initiative of the youth programme of Estonian Television, a phenomenon such as "Hometown" was born in Estonia in October 1975. Tens, hundreds, even thousands of schoolboys and schoolgirls gathered in the old town of Tallinn on Sundays in order to get some easier jobs done, to explore the miracles in the old town, to edit their own newspaper, to organize meetings, excursions etc. and to get to know each other better. Leida Laius tries to find out how the young member of Kodulinn movement and their leader Tiina Mägi are doing at the beginning of 1980s. Tiina Mägi, Raivo E. Tamm, Hannes Astok, Epp Alatalu, Ulvi Pihel, Madis Jürgen, Mart Kalm and others talk about the acitivites of the movement. 
Elutöö
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Mängutoos Manilaiul
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Memory
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Art historian Villem Raam introduces three medieval architectural monuments in Estonia - Karja St. Catherine's Church, Muhu St. Catherine's Church and Pöide St. Mary's Church - in Muhu and Saaremaa islands. All three churches are genetically related. We can see the grand old man of Estonian art history in the situation most characteristic to him - communicating and working with old buildings. Villem Raam vividly mediates the artwork of medieval construction masters, interprets symbols of medieval art and the world view of a medieval man. According to Raam, without knowing the background information it is difficult to appreciate the value of architectural monuments. The documentary expresses the idea that our responsibility is to preserve unique buildings for our future generations since the architectural monuments are an important part of the cultural heritage of Estonia and Europe. 
Mehed
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Lõikus
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Mäletate?
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Rahvamaja
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Lasnamäe
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Accompanied by the phone conversation between Mark Soosaar and architect Malle Meelak there are views of the new district Lasnamäe, Tallinn. Chief architect of the new residential building district, Malle Meelak, tells Mark Soosaar openly about the difficulties and problems related to the construction of the district, about the pros and cons of the dormitory district of a city. Meelak believes that in some fifteen years, Lasnamäe could already be quite a friendly area. 
Põllul pole lage
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Jõuproov
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Helin
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Emissarid
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Pentathlon moderne
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Mere kutse
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Naine täna
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Fueteed Suures Teatris
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Väljak
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Agrotööstuskoondis
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Maestro
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Viru kolhoosi kogemustest
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Maraton
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Gonorröa iseravimise ohtlikkus
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Kihnu mees
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Partii
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Ühepuulootsik
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Ilmamuutus
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A. H. Tammsaare III
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Leivavilja heaks
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NSV liidu rahvaõpetaja Kalju Teras
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Patent 28073
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Exegi monumentum
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Elu ilma...
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Võitluse ja töö lipu all
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Meenutus
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Halloo, Minsk... Halloo, Zagreb!
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Miks kukuvad tähed
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Kogu öö käib sõda…
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Juhan Smuul
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Ees on järgmine etendus
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Johannes Lauristin 1899-1941
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Talu
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A. H. Tammsaare II
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Minu kodu on minu kindlus
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Aidake meil elada
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Ajaloo eksam
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Möödunud päevade kaja
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Läbi aastate ja kauguste
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Piirivalvurid
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Eestimaa paas
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Johannes Hindist
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Ükskord algab aega
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Miss Saaremaa
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Koduküla
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Järgmine loosimine
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Reporter
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Multicolored Fairies
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A cinematic narrative about the lives of emotionally hurt children whose destinies have brought them to the school for students with special educational needs. Despite all difficulties, the children strive for goodness while searching for their own "self". Girls are open-mindedly telling their stories. These young people have already witnessed the darker side of life. Kaagvere school has a strict regimen - children are not allowed to leave the territory, school guards are armed. The boys are talking about how they got into Puiatu special school and the new bad habits that they acquired there. Their attitudes and destinies differ. The boys share their dreams, they sing and play the guitar. "Oh, Estonia" has a beautiful yet sad sound, just like expressing the spoilt lives of the boys. 
Linnaloom
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Sireen
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Internatsionalismi lühikursus
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30 aastat hiljem
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Eesti siseveed
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Cogito, ergo sum
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Kodupinnale tulek. Kalju Lepik 70
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Kangelastegu on vene keeles Podvig
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Tormi poeg
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Ja eestlased said rõõmsaks
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Läbinähtud nähtamatud
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Georg Otsa muusikapäevad 1990
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Lõhestatud taevas
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Kaalukas panus
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Riigivanem II
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Eldoraado
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Riigivanem I
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A. H. Tammsaare I
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Saa vabaks, Eesti meri
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Villu
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Estonian Defence
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In 1993, Estonian National Defence celebrates its 75th birthday. Soviet military forces have not left yet when the restoration of national defence has been founded. Various state and voluntary structures are looking for the right answers in forming defence policy. The director is intrigued by the national level of protection and the politicians' rights to decide for or instead of the nation how to protect the state (and nation). These problems have always been vital for Estonia. The prequel of the documentary introduces a long excursion to history - from the War of Independence to the year of 1940, while observing the development of Estonian national defence and its collapse. 
Willa Terezy Skupién
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Laulutaadi lahkumine
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Aleksei Müürisepp. In memoriam
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Miks?
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Äraneetud linn
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Partei liige
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Suur kontsert
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Sõpruslinnad Tallinn -Kotka
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Täiskäik edasi
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Esimesed viisnurgad
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Elasime Eestile
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Ice Kingdom
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The documentary depicts Antarctica as an aesthetic phenomenon - it is a land of eternal silence and stillness; during its short summer the continent reveals its most beautiful treasures. Long shots about fairytale-like ice dunes, extremely subtle reflections of light and joyfully lively natural environment create an enjoyable nature documentary free from excessive popular scientific ballast. The documentary has been filmed during the 13th Soviet Antarctic expedition from November 1968 until May 1969. 
Et tuleks välja…
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Ülekanne 56:13
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Möödunud sajandi Eestist
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Vabariigi sünd
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Üksinda kiigel
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Eduard Viiralt
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Eelkäija
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Konrad Mägi
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Vendluspäevad
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Üksinda ja koos
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Läänemeri rahumereks!
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Neljakümnes sõda
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Tallinna saladused
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Memento
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Reportaaž kuritööst
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Viiuli ja relvaga
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Pikk Street
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Pikk Street, on which some of the city’s architectural landmarks stand, is one of the most important streets of Tallinn’s Old Town. 
Ajapikku unustatakse meie nimi
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Kiri Ameerikasse
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Külakauplus
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Vagu vao kõrvale
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Uus aeg
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Jäätramm
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Ruhnu
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A poetic film about the island of Ruhnu. The camera observes the slow and peaceful daily life on the island. The ship leaving the port of Pärnu. A view from the plane to Ruhnu. A fisherman catching eels. The wooden church and the cemetery of Ruhnu. Receiving the fish in the Ruhnu port. 
Sõprusvisiit
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Visa töö vili
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Tere, tüdrukud!
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Suure labida mehed
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Kivi tee ääres
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Inimesed eesliinilt
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Argipäev
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Kalevi-Liiva süüdistab!
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Kohtumised tänaval
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Uued sõbrad
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Seda ei saa andestada!
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Oma silmaga
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Uus tehnika Tootsis
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Väikesed kompleksbrigaadid
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Igal oma leib
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Lehekülgi võitlusest
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Tallinna spordimängud
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Teatrikevad Tallinnas
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Reis mööda Rootsit
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Year of the Horse
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Film-reportage describes the most vital moments in Estonian struggle for independence in 1990, also some typical episodes of everyday life of Estonian people, that altogether should give a concentrated picture about Estonia this year. The documentary is a continuation for the director's former film chronicle "Year of Dragon" (1988). 
Midsummer's Day
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Midsummer's Day tells a story about the celebration of Estonia's most important holidays in urban conditions. The film, recorded with a hidden camera, vividly depicts the change in the traditional content of Midsummer's Day. 
Year of the Dragon
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1988 was an exceptional year in Estonia. As a surprise to everyone, use of the national flag and insignia was permitted, an open rift developed the party and government leaders, the Popular Front and Green movements developed, but so, too, the Interfront – communist hardliners opposed to Estonian Independence. Estonian Heritage Protection Society helped restore War of Independence monuments, Stalin’s attempt to destroy the Estonian people was revealed and – just imagine – Estonian deputies in Moscow stood up against the central authorities. The developments in Estonia drew international attention. Could all this really be happening in a totalitarian country?
The documentary is a compelling account of the events in Estonia in the year of Dragon, 1988, the changes in the lives (albeit superficial ones in the beginning) and the resurgence of Estonian national pride after 48 years of dormancy.
511 Best Photographs of Mars
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The film introduces a selection of various guest types in cafes and night clubs in late 1960s when old ladies still had some bourgeois manners from the first republic of Estonia and the youngsters of the Soviet regime were not served in a restaurant if they had no proper clothing. The guests of Tallinn's legendary cafes "Pearl" and "Moscow" were filmed in their own time. The uniqueness of the film is expressed through a strangely independent soundtrack that observes everyday bustle from the heights of melancholy poetry and remote uranography. Artur Alliksaar's poetry is read by Aarne Üksküla. 