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Trail Baltic

Original title: Trail Baltic. Väljasõit rohelisse

2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A documentary about a woman's journey along the future route corridor of the Rail Baltic railway. While trying to broadcast live from the 213km long route, the artist Hanna Samoson meets people on her way whose lives will be inextricably linked with the future railway.

A documentary about a woman's journey along the future route corridor of the Rail Baltic railway. While trying to broadcast live from the 213km long route, the artist Hanna Samoson meets people on her way whose lives will be inextricably linked with the future railway. Through hopes, humour and the pain of loss, "Trail Baltic" hows how people affected by the huge project feel. The film's backdrop is an unbroken landscape that, but all indications, is destined to change soon. The story could also be told about the Nursipalu military training ground, the pulp mill by Emajõgi or the nuclear power ...
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Swing, Axe and the Tree of Eternal Love

Original title: Kiik, Kirves ja Igavese Armastuse Puu

2021 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Meel Paliale

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away.

A regular day at the car shop comes to an end when two friends Kiik and Eerik discover their boss’s dead body. After Kiik finds his girlfriend cheating him with a local playboy, he suffers a mental breakdown and runs away. Kiik becomes fixated with cutting off all memories of his old relationship that includes chopping down a tree at the other side of the country where they gave a vow for eternal love. Kiik and Eerik hit the road.
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U.q.

2021 | Feature film, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Murd

A documentary about the life and music of Uku Kuut, from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles and to speakers all around the world.

To understand the international phenomenon of Uku Kuut means to understand the ability of different musical niches, sub-genres and hidden creative explosions to not only exist, butflourish, completely independently of the mainstream. Kuut’s life, mothered by Maryn E.Coote (who you may know as the Estonian Jazz diva Marju Kuut), took him from the Soviet Union to refuge in Sweden, music studios in Los Angeles, back to a re-independent Estonia and later, fighting ALS, to speakers all around the world. A Greek comedy captured on 8mm, VHS and BETA tape.
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Waves and vibes

Original title: Lained ja võnked

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaido Veermäe, Marianne Kõrver

An eternal opposition of fine and crude matter has penetrated the marriage of two people. It is a poetic story about cosmic vibrations, split cabbages and the possibility of love.

An elderly couple married for four decades has decided to divorce in their golden years – the wife's path has taken her to the waves of God and cosmic energy, but the husband stays in the iron clutch of science. World views have clashed, an eternal opposition of fine and crude matter has penetrated the marriage of two people. It is a poetic story about cosmic vibrations, split cabbages and the possibility of love.
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Daisy Petal Game II: Silver Wedding

Original title: Karikakramäng II: Hõbepulmad

2013 | Feature film, Short | Director: Andres Maimik, Katrin Maimik

Tragicomical story about a middle-aged married couple who decides to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a grand party.

Helle and Olev's 25th wedding anniversary is approaching. The couple wants definitely to celebrate their big day and the party must be perfect, including tossing the bridal bouquet, traditional dances and food. First it seems that everything is going smoothly, but during the party the show starts to fall apart and suppressed feelings, fears and complexes will be revealed.
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INSIDE + OUT

2013 | Students film, Music video | Director: Ivan Pavljutškov

Student Ivan Pavljutskov’s short film tells a story about 4 band members, who one day decided that it’s never too late to start to change.

A story about 4 band members of one hip+hop band, who one day decided to change everything. They went inside the elevator…
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Songamissioon Mongoolias

2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Ambassador of Setomaa

2012 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

On either side of a disputed and un-ratified border between Estonia and Russia lies the land of the Seto people, Setomaa (meaning "Land of Wars" in the Seto language). Nowadays there are approximately 10 000 Setos left in the World. Valli who has grown up in a proper Seto family in Pechorsky District has been living in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for the last 40 years. According to her bloodline she is the fifth generation Seto folk singer. Besides her day-to-day work at Äripäev Publishing Valli continues to keep the traditions of singing and playing the garmon alive. However, ...
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Livonians of Professor Viitso

Title in Estonian: Professor Viitso liivlased

2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso and the last Livonians.

Every person and every language have their own lifespan - birth, life, possible vanishing. Livonian language, one of the closest relatives to Estonian language, is about to disappear as a living language of communication. In 2009-2019, the Professor Emeritus of the University of Tartu, linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso met factually the last people for whom Livonian language has been their mother tongue: Viktor Berthold from Liepājast, Erna Vanaga from Ventspils and Grizelda Kristiņ from Toronto area in Canada. In Helsinki, professor Viitso also met Seppo Suhonen, a meritorious researcher of Livonian language. This documentary in Livonian language became a farewell ...
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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé