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A group of Russian-Estonians navigates the delicate balance between cultural identity and integration, exploring the sacrifices and adaptations required to find acceptance while remaining true to themselves.
How can we talk about life’s hardest truths and still hold on to not just the will to live—but the joy of it?
An atmospheric short film that returns to the house in which the writer, collec3ve farmer and war refugee Rihhard Iher (1910-1980) wrote a 130-page leder to his children.
A psychological thriller about a young writer.
The film is about longing, friendship, love, family and fears, which often has “big eyes”.
A documentary about being a woman, told through the life and work of Estonia’s most beloved and internationally most known contemporary poetess Kristiina Ehin.
This is a film about telling stories. How we approach them, feel them and where they intersect. It is a drama about creating a drama. A matrioshka of stories.
When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.
Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.
Debut film of Chino Moya is a collection of darkly humorous, surrealist tales about ill-fated characters and their tragic misadventures.
Short comedy drama about a heartbroken novelist who deals with her crush marrying someone else by writing him the worst wedding imaginable.
The film brings the viewer into contact with peole from different backgrounds and professions. It becomes apparent, that spacial hierarchies in the city do not correlate with its mental hierarchies.
Film student Kaspar Erik Lind’s interview with writer and filmmaker Olev Remsu
A 50-year- old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma – she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years – she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.
The world comes to an end on the 21st of December 2012. There is a time loop and Stefan is the only one who is able to see that.
A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.
One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt.
The documentary introduces writer Arvo Valton and meetings with him in 2008-2014.
The documentary gives a minimalistic portrait about Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia, through the recollections by his contemporaries.
Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.
“True Colours” is a story about a triangle of lonely people.
Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.
The story of a woman who manipulates her own world and the men in it with a typewriter.
Liivo Niglas portrays Juri Vella, a Nenets of West Siberia, who has returned to reindeer herding in order to escape the expanding civilization.
Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, is the guide to take the viewers around Paris.
The lyrical love story directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the novel "Victoria" (1898) by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The film tells the story about different adventures in the lives of young people being in love, brought into the 1930s in Estonia.
The lyrical love story directed by Jüri Sillart is based on the novel "Victoria" (1898) by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The film tells the story about different adventures in the lives of young people being in love, brought into the 1930s in Estonia.
The feature film is an Estonian-Polish co-production directed by Polish filmmaker Marek Piestrak. It tells about the struggle against an evil conspiracy in Estonia in August 1939.
Helga Nõu talks at the literary night in Häädemeeste library on June 22, 1990. Leili Tali, head of the library, has a conversation with the writer before the talk.
The folksy comedy is the last one in the trilogy based on the works by Oskar Luts directed by Arvo Kruusement. Previous films of the trilogy are "Summer" (released in 1976) and "Spring" (released in 1969). In "Autumn" the main focus is on Jorh Adniel Kiir, the tailor of Paunvere, and his misadventures while getting married and buying a farm.
Expatriate Estonian, poet Kalju Lepik, visits his fatherland Estonia after having been away from it for about 50 years.
With Heino Kiik in the botanical gardens or the Linnaeus Garden of the University of Uppsala and in Linné's summer residence in Hammarby on May 20, 1989.
Heino Kiik with Eva and Lauri Gustavson visiting Joosep and Alide Nõu in Tuna on May 21, 1989.
Elin Toona holds a speech in Estonian Home, Uppsala in September 1988.