Film Title:	Keywords:
Film Category:	Locations / Objects:
Genre:	Events:
Year of Production:	Institutions in film:
Producers:	People in film:
Actors:	Decades:
Filmmakers:		Close

Search results

Advanced search (11)

Fire Speaks

Original title: Tule sõnumid

2024 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

A documentary about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge.

The Mayans view the universe as a woven tapestry, where each of us is a thread, creating intricate patterns and inspiring stories. Over four years, we have crafted a film about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge. This film aims to inspire viewers to connect with fire and the elements of nature, urging them to find their heart's path while bridging the wisdom between the Guatemalan Mayan tradition and Estonia.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The Gardener Of Tension Fields

Original title: Pingeväljade aednik

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Joosep Matjus, Katri Rannastu

Estonian well known writer Mehis Heinsaar has seven encounters during his journey in the wilderness, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of the writer.

The main character of the film is the mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar, a creator who likes to travel in his inner psychogeography. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can speak the language of animals and birds and see the invisible to the naked eye. The writer strives for wide meadows through a wild thicket, and those multi-day hikes he calls the pilgrimages of a poor man. The wanderer has seven encounters along the way, which will open to the viewer the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Stefan

2017 | Students film, Short | Director: Ann Einberg

The world comes to an end on the 21st of December 2012. There is a time loop and Stefan is the only one who is able to see that.

21st of December 2012. Two very different people meet at the café in Tallinn – a young journalist and Stefan. They want to discuss Stefan’s newest book that talks about the Mayan Calendar and possible apocalypse. A lighthearted interview takes an unexpected turn as the surroundings around them start to change. Is this really the end?
- View
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
The white land of Enderby

Original title: Enderby valge maa

1969 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt, Mati Kask

Documentary by Andres Sööt and Mati Kask portrays Antarctic expeditions and its polar stations in 1968-1969.

When the filmmakers director Andres Sööt and cameraman Mati Kask went to the high plain of Antarctic, the coldest point on Earth. They filmed on the South Pole from December 1968 to February 1969. Neutral, seemingly circumstantial film frames about the life of polar explorers and breathtakingly beautiful views of nature express the immeasurable indifference of the white hell of snow. The growing anxiety of a human being on a cold and lifeless continent can be soothed only by another living being, whether it be a man or an animal. The film talks about men in extraordinary conditions, loneliness, need ...
- Stream
- Stream
Hide synopsis Open synopsis
Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1966 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1956 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu