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Bad Ass Merike

Original title: Vinge mutt

2024 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Keil

She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.

Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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Who am I Smiling For?

Original title: Kellele ma naeratan?

2023 | Documentary, | Director: Eeva Mägi

Sometimes you need to be reborn to understand that death is not the end of life. A film about the love of a mother and her children - nothing can separate them, not even death.

Oliver is a 12-year-old boy whose mother, Mari has stage IV cancer, and together they are preparing for her death. Mari tries to show Oliver how to fly around as a spirit, how to talk to her when she’s an angel in the sky or how they will play football together even after she has passed away. At the same time, Mari must fight for her daughter’s custody, to have a chance to see her before she dies. In the midst of it stands Oliver, whose main wish is that he could simply live happily forever together with his mother ...
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Three springs of Total Immersion Method

Original title: Keelekümblejate kolm kevadet

2012 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Russian children study Estonian language with the Total Immersion Method in a Tallinn school in 2001-2012.

In 2001, the first language class using the Total Immersion Method started in Tallinn Läänemere Grammar School where Russian children were specialised in Estonian language. The documentary series "Total Immersion Method users" was filmed in the spring of 2003 that introduced the life of those graduating from the third grade. In 2007 the filmmakers returned to the students. The documentary "Two springs of the Total Immersion Method" was born. In the spring of 2012, the filmmakers are back again - they follow the activities of the same youngsters who are graduating from the grammar school. Kokku saab film ühe põlvkonna ...
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Return from the End Station

Original title: Väsinud end vihkamast

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Elen Lotman
Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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Siberi õpetaja

2001 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Heini Drui
Catching the Miracle

Original ttle: Imet püüdmas

1996 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Hans Roosipuu, Enn Säde

Documentary by Hans Roosipuu and Enn Säde about the Shmigun family with its two athlete daughters Kristina and Katrin striving towards top results.

It is a miracle indeed - a harmonious family who has a specific aim in their life. Mother Rutt and father Anatoli were once the gold medalists of European junior masters in skiing; their daughters Kristina and Katrin take it naturally to reach among the professional athletes at the top of the ski world. Filmmakers Hans Roosipuu and Enn Säde observe the athlete family's colourful everyday life full of efforts.
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Call by the sea

Title in Estonian: Mere kutse

1985 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Kusmin

Documentary directed by Toivo Kuzmin about the problems of Estonian shipping, preparing and educating the young marines.

"Call by the sea" is the last film of the trilogy of sea-related films directed by Toivo Kuzmin. The documentary talks about the problems in the field of Estonian shipping, preparing and educating the young marines. The filmmakers observe the entrance exams at the Estonian Nautical School, life at the school and at sea. The question of marine education is discussed by the headmaster of the nautical school, head of Estonian Shipping, head of fish industry, ship captains, marines and students of the nautical school.
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Aedade annid

1982 | Documentary | Director: Vello Aruoja
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Üks aasta kolmesaja viiekümnest

1982 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
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