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Border Youth

Original title: Noored piiril

2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets
Sparkling Rivers

Original title: Sädemete jõed

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Märten Vaher

Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

Georgia is not only a country of wine and high mountains, but it is has also more than 25 000 rivers. Running water is a richness, that has been noticed by a lot of investors and made Georgia their desired destination. Even now 80 per cent of Georgian electricity comes from hydroelectricity power plants and in the near future there are plans to construct more than 100 new stations. For thousands of people it means they have to be resettled. Shady deals, unclear investors registered in tax havens, energy minister’s business interests in the hydro construction company and deaths by ...
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Ghost Mountaineer

Original title: Must alpinist

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor), who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. ...
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A New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner

Original title: Uus päev luuakse idakaares

2008 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peeter Brambat

In this film, we look at the Setos – a European ethnic group who are wedged between two different cultures – the Orthodox East and the Catholic-Lutheran West. This is the story of a people who make do, living on the Eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world. One way or another, they are involved in the dawning of a new day for themselves and Europe.

Setomaa – the land of the setos is located in the south-eastern corner of the Republic of Estonia, bordering on Lake Pskov to the north, Russia to the east, and Latvia to the south. It has been a battleground for all manner of wars throughout history. This is the story of people who make do, lliving on the eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world.
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In the Footsteps of Middendorff

Original title: Middendorffi jälgedes

2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo, Riho Västrik

Estonian filmmakers with the director of the documentary, Riho Västrik, repeated Alexander Theodor von Middendorff's expedition to the less known areas in Siberia.

Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815 – 1894), Russian scientist of Baltic German and Estonian origin, organized a scientific expedition to Taymyr Peninsula, the Northern end of Eurasia in 1842-1845. Century and a half later a group of Estonian scientists took the same route. The filmmakers faced the crisp arctic tundra with thousands of birds and wild reindeers and met the native people whose forefathers once gave directions to Middendorff in order to reach the Arctic Ocean.
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Saa vabaks, Eesti meri

1991 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Kusmin
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Randlased

1990 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Toivo Kusmin
Kogu võim …

1989 | Documentary | Director: Irene Lään
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On the west border

Title in Estonian: Läänepiiril

1976 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Valdur Himbek

Soviet border guards at work and in training.

Soviet border guards at work and in training in the border guard stations on the Western coast and islands of Estonia.
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Nõukogude relvajõud

1968 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek