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Porcelain Madness

Original title: Nõudehullud

2022 | Documentary | Director: Eik Erik Sikk

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness

At the same time with corona, an illness started to spread that has no cure – porcelain madness. In one and a half years, tens of thousands of people have been infected with a disease that makes them tirelessly hunt for nostalgic cups and dishes, soviet-era glassware and antique tureens. At the centre of documentary is desirable tableware that triggers the lust for hunt in otherwise normal, educated people, taking their money and sleep. Through carefully selected, colourful characters, we delve deep into the phenomenon. Porcelain aficionados range from the mortally ill Helena, who proclaims herself “mad for porcelain until death ...
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Vinyl Whisperer

Original title: Muusika, mida ma veel ei tea

2021 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

Music, that Shazam doesn’t know and Spotify can’t find.

A vinyl archeologist armed with encyclopaedic knowledge and unbound passion for obscure music, embarks on a journey to find the rarest vinyl records of the Soviet era.
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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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Hunter

Original title: Kütt

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk
Roots: 40 Years Later

Original title: Juured: 40 aastat hiljem

2018 | Documentary | Director: Moonika Siimets

A story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.

My parents Tiina and Ülo have saved more stuff in their home throughout the years than they have space to live. Useless piles of clothes, old newspapers and dishes block the way to the dinner table or bed. This is a story about a love for things and the difficulty of letting go of them.
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Sneakerheads

2016 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristi Prik

The short TV documentary ‘Sneakerheads’ by Kristi Prik gives to sneakerheads the chance to talk about their unusual hobby.

A sneakerhead is a person who collects, trades or admires sneakers as a hobby. The birth of the sneakerhead culture in the United States came in the beginning of 1980’s mostly thanks to basketball, especially Michael Jordan and hip-hop music. Sneakerheading in Estonia is a far more recent event – it has only been around for a decade the most. This journalistic TV documentary will give the viewer an insight to the world of sneakerhead.
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 2

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, II jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Hugo Mitt, electronics and aviation engineer living in Canberra, recalls past events in his life and shows his collection of beer cans.

Hugo Mitt arrived at Australia from Germany at the end of 1948. FIrst, English language courses took place at the refugee camp in Bonegilla. Then he had to pass the mandatory employment for two years in Woomera where ditches were digged for the future military base colony. After the mandatory job, Hugo mitt went to his parents' place in Adelaide and started studying electronics at the university. There were financially hard times. After obtaining the degree in engineering, Mitt was employed by an aviation board. Mitt's area of responsibility included the navigation equipment of aerodromes. He contributed to several innovations ...
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Clock play

Original title: Kellamäng

1977 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Portrait documentary directed by Semyon Shkolnikov about Fred Kogel and his interesting collection of old clocks that consists of more than 500 items.

Engineer Fred Kogel has dedicated all his free time to collecting valuable clocks for the last 50 years. His hobby as well as artistic passion is to preserve, fix and maintain items of cultural heritage. In order to make his collection publicly accessible, Fred Kogel has decided to give his collection as a gift to Tallinn City Museum.
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Lenin markidel

1974 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson
K.Tooming

1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Andres Sööt