investigative
What is war and how does it affect the lives of ordinary people? In March 2022, we saw thousands of Ukrainian women and children fleeing from bombs and sirens.
A poetic documentary exploring the mysterious world of ticks, their role in the ecosystem, and their unsettling parallels with humanity’s impact on nature.
The short documentary offers a glimpse into the world of the Estonian sex work industry, in which the navigating characters unravel the interconnected dynamics of money, loneliness, and sex, and their impact on the journeys of self-discovery and growth of young people.
This is the story of a Western European raised in a world of high culture who transforms into a patriot of Estonia and the Finno-Ugric peoples.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion, Erko journeys to Ukraine as a volunteer to provide aid. As the conflict prolongs, he confronts a pivotal decision: war or his own family?
A powerful journey to the heart of Indonesia’s Sumba island, where an activist confronts centuries-old traditions to rescue an 8-year-old child from servitude.
Kārlis Lesiņš becomes a ‘citizen-investigator’ going on the road to find out why the construction of the EU funded and NATO backed 870 kilometers long high-speed railway line connecting the Baltic States to Europe is significantly behind the schedule, over the budget and at risk of stalling.
Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The nurse looks after the roses; the grandchild teaches Granny TikTok; ancient Romans walk around in the garden to the sounds of a saxophone. Countries, roads and people branch out in branching times.
Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.
People find themselves in a deadlock over a tiny animal on the verge of extinction.
The discomfort that people feel when looking monkeys in a cage is a warning sign.
Two men’s journeys take them through the ups and downs of life. One of them has changed into a woman and the other into a monk. Will they find the magnetic forces they need to turn on the perpetuum mobile that will help them find someone to share their lives with and somewhere to belong?
Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities.
There are about ten thousand drug addicts who inject in Estonia. At some point, that could come closer to home than we think. This is an addiction epidemic. This is our century’s plague. We can notice. And we can care.
Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.
Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.
If you go to war, war will come home with you.
In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved to Iceland and her previous life in Estonia remained unknown. Who was she, how and why did she get there?
Euro Euphoria is the very first film about the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s a fast-paced story full of humor that captivates the viewer with a cascade of perspectives amid aficionados' adventures on the sidelines of the annual contest.
Documentary narrative about the destinies of five Estonian men, FInnish Boys who fought in the infantry regiment in Finland that had lost the war but preserved its independence in 1957 and 1948.
Samples of licence plates of the cars belonging to Estonians, filmed during ESTO 1992.
Interviews in English for TV news. Interview with Tõnu Parming, newspaper editor and politician.
This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.
Documentary directed by Heli Speek about cleric Harald Meri and the murder story of his housemaid in April 1990.
Documentary directed by Andres Sööt about doctor of technology Johannes Hint, his scientific research, his "guilt" and posthumous rehabilitation.
Documentary by Vello Kallaste about Hans Kruus, a historian and politician with colourful destiny, in the turmoil of historical events.
Documentary by Märt Müür about the life of Kalev Raave - a head of agricultural holding, member of the communist party and a social activist.
Documentary about commodity shortages and speculation in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Documentary on a problematic issue - namely the crop husbandry and land improvement in a non-chernozemic zone in the Soviet Estonia.