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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

A deeply moving, intimate and breathtaking approach to issues of trauma, healing, and community. In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.
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Mountains That Were Not There

Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

Talent, diligence and willpower can take you to the world stage, even if you grow up in Vändra, on the periphery of Europe, and dream of becoming a professional cyclist. A pro who conquers famous mountaintops in the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Dolomites, and whose name is heard from week to week on the Eurosport channel when the Tour de France, the Giro d´Italia or the Vuelta are underway. One exceptional success story is understandable, but when there are two of them, and both at the same time… Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe grew up to become world-class champions ...
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Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

Original title: Regilaul - laulud õhust

2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Ulrike Koch

This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song.

On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples originated a singing tradition of mysterious power called the Regilaul. These songs are the roots of Estonia’s renowned singing culture. Based on the continuous repetition of eight-syllable verses, they produce a haunting sound able to connect the fleeting present with the eternal circle of life. Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores how Regi songs still fire the imagination today, weaving together people and nature through song.
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Instead of medication

Original title: Arstirohu asemel

1978 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Reet Kasesalu

The documentary tells about the phenomenon of sauna as an ancient form of physiotherapy and an alternative medication.

A short documentary about the positive effects of sauna culture. Medical workers Rein Suija and Elmar Laane explain the healing qualities of sauna procedures to one's health as the cheapest and most accessible physiotherapeutic means, while being based on scientific research. At the same time the film gives a short overview about the history and different types of sauna.
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Sooleib

1978 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Ahvatluste tund

1970 | Musical film | Director: Elmo Lööve
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The Waterfowl People

Original title: Veelinnu rahvas

1970 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

A documentary about the cultural and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in 1969 and 1970. The footage was shot in Nenetsia, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia and Estonia.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1966 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
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Nõukogude Eesti

1960 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Igor Jeltsov
Nõukogude Eesti

1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu