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Onu Arvo

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Frank-Leander Sapego

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The story of Estonia’s oldest youtuber, influencer and star-chef, Uncle Arvo. The story of food and hunger for life.
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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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A Bad Scene: Christmas Mystery

Original title - Paha lugu: Jõulumüsteerium

2018 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

“Christmas Mystery” by Andres Maimik and Katrin Maimik talks about student Jass, who makes extra money by playing Santa Claus. Behind one door, however, a lonely woman awaits him, who pulls him into weird role plays the polite youngster cannot say “no” to.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. Harassment, mental violence, manipulation, cornering – these topics are current in both politics as well as private sphere. In these nightmarish confrontations, dramatics, mysticism as well as twisted comedy can be found. The 4th short film “Christmas Mystery” by Andres Maimik and Katrin Maimik talks about student Jass, who makes extra money by playing Santa Claus. Behind one door, however, a lonely woman awaits him, who pulls him into weird role plays the polite youngster ...
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Christ Lives in Siberia

Original title: Kristus elab Siberis

2015 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi

Director Arbo Tammiksaar together with his family moved to live in a Vissarions' village in Siberia for a year, in order to follow the daily life of the religious community.

The charismatic religious leader Vissarion lives in an isolated Siberian village and calls himself Christ who has reborn. A religious sect consisting of thousands of followers has gathered around him, including Dmitri the bellringer and his wife Sveta who moved to the community with her three children from Saint Petersburg a few years ago. Magomed, the biological father of the children, writes a complaint letter to the administration of the President of Russia and insists that his children should be given back to him. Director Arbo Tammiksaar with his family moved to the Vissarions' village for a year. He followed ...
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Uppsala Estonian Student Society 2

Original title: Uppsala Eesti üliõpilaskond 2

1963 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Important events of the organization Estonian Students' Society in Uppsala, Sweden in 1963.

In May 1963, Uppsala students go to conquer Sigtuna. Armin Tuulse holds an open air talk and later introduces the old architecture of St. Olof's church in Sigtuna and Sigtuna town hall. Event of Uppsala students in Vårdsätra. Members of Uppsala Estonian Student Society hold Christmas party in Uppsala Eesti Kodu in December 1963.
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Onu Arvo

Funeral Diaries

A Bad Scene: Christmas Mystery

Christ Lives in Siberia

Uppsala Estonian Student Society 2