reading a poem
Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.
"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.
Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.
Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.
The film introduces the daily activities and creative work of the last year in artist Jaan Paavle's life, including his beliefs, attitudes and contradictions with the society.
The documentary co-directed by Estonian and French filmmakers portray Jaan Kaplinski - a man behind words.
Filmmaker Andres Sööt portrays poet Hando Runnel, his essential nature, mentality, people around him and the Estonian great intellectuals who are close to the poet.
Documentary of cultural history by Vallo Kepp about the last decade (1941-1951) in the life of Henrik Visnapuu, the Estonian writer of patriotic and romantic poetry.
This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.
A film about an elderly Russian woman who was an industrial worker in Estonia. Despite her hard existence and horrible working conditions she trusts in God and human cordiality. The film is part of a series of portraits by the Lintrups (who also made cogito, ergo sumof elderly and somewhat strange Estonians that relate the history of this small ethnic group.
The Baltic Institute has organized Jaan Kaplinski's night at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm on May 15, 1987. Ivo Illiste introduces the poet and recites the translations of his poetry.
Three documentary short stories by Peep Puks about three women with a sense of mission.
Debora Vaarandi, a beloved writer of Estonian SSR, and her poetry.
Ten days of Estonian literature in Moscow from May 23 – June 1, 1950.