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Fire Speaks

Original title: Tule sõnumid

2024 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

A documentary about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge.

The Mayans view the universe as a woven tapestry, where each of us is a thread, creating intricate patterns and inspiring stories. Over four years, we have crafted a film about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge. This film aims to inspire viewers to connect with fire and the elements of nature, urging them to find their heart's path while bridging the wisdom between the Guatemalan Mayan tradition and Estonia.
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God in the thunder

Original title in Estonian: Jumal äikese käes

2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Ester Stancel

A fantasy film about the magical life of a medieval Estonian spiritual society.

In a small community of Estonian magicians lives a girl, who is aspiring to become the next master. Her obedience gets challenged when one day the famous war hero of their enemy country arrives to seek healing for his horrific skin condition.
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A Song Of Nature

2019 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Julien Kai

A celebration of the elements of nature at the pilgrimage house of Vastseliina and the unique influence of these elements as a part of human interactions in the house.

Water, Fire, Air and Earth. 4 elements of nature that are the origin of the pilgrimage house of Vastseliina. “A Song of Nature” is an architecture film introducing this spiritual place by a parallelism between indoor and outdoor shots, portraying how the modern house fits within the naturalistic and historical setting of the space.
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Flowers from the Mount of Olives

Original title: Õlimäe õied

2013 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heilika Pikkov

Isiklik ja intiimne lugu Jeruusalemmas asuvast Õlimäe kloostrist ja erakordse elusaatusega eestlannast, nunn ema Ksenijast. Heilika Pikkov’s feature length creative documentary „Flowers from the Mount of Olives“ was shot within two years at The Mount of Olives Convent of the Ascension of Our Lord in Jerusalem.

Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in Mount of Olives, lives the 82 year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya. Although inside the convent’s cement walls the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the 20 years that Mother Ksenya has spent there have passed by in a flash. In the hierarchy of the nunnery she has now achieved the second-to-last level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell the story of her life for the very last time.
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Etude of a Prayer

Original title: Etüüd palvest

2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Siiri Timmerman, Jaan Kolberg

This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth.

Generally, if people speak about convent in Pirita, they mean the ruins and many of them are surprised to discover that right there in Pirita, next to the old ruins, has been over ten years a fully operating Bridgettine convent. This 30-min film gives an overview of Bridgettine Order, the founder of the Order – Saint Bridget and the restorer of the Order – Mother Elisabeth. If during medieval the convent was an understandable part of social life then later, after the reformation, the tradition of a convent as an institution disappeared from Estonia and from our neighborhood. Today this ...
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Fire Speaks

God in the thunder

A Song Of Nature

Flowers from the Mount of Olives

Etude of a Prayer