A documentary about the Khanty people. At the same time, the film is also a study about cultural identity in a globalizing world. Every autumn a helicopter flies over the remote marshes and bogs of Western Siberia. Native children who have grown up surrounded by forests are taken away. They enter a new world of school uniforms, an unfamiliar Russian language, education and knowledge.
Miriam and her little brother play hide and seek with the chicken. There is some confusion when the chicken is locked in the cupboard and tomato sauce is spilled on the ground.
A documentary about the fight for the restoration of the Estonian independence in the late 80's and early 90's.
A film about the lives, beliefs, and perspectives of the fishermen from Kaunispe, a small village on the western coast of Sõrve.
The Old Man gets an implant.
The Old Man's cow gives birth.
Spring has turned into autumn, and the beauty and yield of the garden have changed.
In a barren dystopian landscape, a remnant of a human searches for sources of oxygen. In it's journey it finds mind altering experience.
"But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince." - Daniel 10:21 "Peaingel Mikael" was filmed at the end of May 2024 at the Keller Theatre in Tallinn.
According to pop culture mythology, Paris Hilton “invented” the selfie in 2006. In factual terms, Uber and its rideshare model was officially launched in 2010. Mare Tralla’s video precedes - and reflects - both of these cultural landmarks that have since become nouns. In this piece, no words are needed: a woman rides in the backseat, entranced by pulsing rhythms. Through a double-layered image - or perhaps an altered state of mind - we follow the movements of a fleeting moment inside a car.
A transcendental float or an imminent fall: a woman is in a slow motion descent with a slightly illuminated building rushing on the background. Eyes are shut and the body delicately moves: the wind keeps blowing and the end is always near, yet never quite there.
How to cope as a fish-headed man in human society?
In a run-down 1950's hotel, a cleaning maid develops a weird obsession with a foreign musician. The maid sees glimpses of the world beyond the iron curtain, and she dwells in her downward spiral on the borderline of “Do I want to be with her or become her?”. Her partner suffers the consequences.
Follows the work of icon master Pavel Varunin from 2021 to 2023 - how the wood-carved icons that end up in chapels are created. In addition, the film also takes a brief look at Varunin's other creative fields.
It is September 17, 1991. Somewhere over Greenland, on a Finnair plane, Foreign Minister Lennart Meri is writing a speech for Arnold Rüütel, which the latter will deliver from the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York two days later. Mark Soosaar's documentary is a twin portrait of Arnold Rüütel and Lennart Meri.
Jaan Toomik's short film about the transmission of life between generations. The father takes his son fishing.
About the life of a hunting dog. The protagonists get into all kinds of different adventures during their hunt.
Low IQ lad named Fuuskur tries to find perfect formula for his homemade snus.
Shot over a single day — after learning of the death of her grandfather, documentary director Katrina Lehismäe and her family take a road trip across a frozen Estonia in the middle of winter to the small town where he lived to take care of his affairs and start to come to terms with their own grief. An intimate portrait of bereavement, life and what is left after it has departed.
