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Unt´s hour

Original title: Unditund

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt.

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 Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed ...
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Documentary, Portrait, Students film | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Phantom

Original title: Kodu-käija

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Sööt

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.

The documentary follows the moments and hikes of Hando Runnel in Estonia, in the summer of 2009. The places are more or less connected to local history or cultural history, starting from the birth place of Villem Reiman in Kolga-Jaani ending with the cafe of the University of Tartu. When leaving for his explorations, Runnel takes along (either physically or mentally) people who are influential for him - Uku Masing, Hendrik Adamson, Jüri Matjus, Hannes Varblane, Vello Salum, Peeter Olesk and others. The excerpts that can be seen and heard in the documentary reveal Runnel's mentality to the depths. This, ...
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The Eleventh Letter by Henrik Visnapuu

Original title: Henrik Visnapuu üheteistkümnes kiri

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

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.

In 1940s there were dramatic events going on both in Henrik Visnapuu's (1890-1951) life, in Estonia and in the whole world. His beloved wife Ing died at that time; the poet fleed from his homeland and suffered from being in exile in Austra, Germany and the United States of America. People who met and remember him share their memories about Visnapuu. Next to the romantic stories as the leitmotif of the film there are also several issues discussed such as relationship with the authorities, being a poet and staying true to oneself during politically complicated situations.
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Masing`s Landscape. Part IV

Original title: Masingu maastikud: Tõuseb tume puu täis kollaseid tiibu

2008 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp

Film director Vallo Kepp has gathered original materials of his film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes".

The compilation introduces interviews, letters, texsts, videos and audio recordings before the editing process of the film trilogy "Masing's Landscape". This audiovisual collection created by the filmmakers made it possible to create the trilogy.
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Masing`s Landscape. Part III. Death is Lodging in the Field

Original title: Masingu maastikud: Surm on öömaja põllul

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

The third part of the film trilogy "Masing's Landscape" directed by Vallo Kepp focuses on the inner migration of a creative personality through the Soviet ideology.

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.
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Masing`s Landscape. Part II. The Son of Man in a White Boat

Original title: Masingu maastikud: Inimesepoeg valgel laeval

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

The second part of the biographical film trilogy "Masing`s Landscape. Part II. The Son of Man in a White Boat" by Vallo Kepp. The documentary focuses on the period when Uku Masing, a poet, theologian and teacher, lived in Tartu, Estonia.

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.
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Vaba vaimu saadik

1998 | Documentary | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto
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With Betti Alver

Original title: Betti Alveriga

1990 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks

Recollective portrait documentary directed by Peep Puks about Betti Alver, Estonian writer, poetess and translator.

Recollective portrait documentary about Betti Alver (Nov 23, 1906 - June 19, 1989) who was a member of "Arbujad" poets' group. The film was made right after the poetess passed away - when the memories of her close ones were still fresh and her residence was intact. Betti Alver's family members, friends and colleagues share their memories about the poetess.
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