Jaak Elling Movies

Documentary about the St. John's Day festival in Tallinn. Recorded with a hidden camera, the film is full of contrasts and expressively depicts the...

Half the film was shot with a video camera taken from a television station without permission, the cast and staff were unpaid, and the script was...

Typhus has killed the father, mother and older son of Palanumäe farm. Hind, younger son, realizes that he won't be able to manage the shabby...

Art historian Villem Raam (1910 - 1996) introduces three medieval architectural monuments in Estonia - Karja St. Catherine's Church, Muhu St....

Urbanized youth is searching for his soul - his vital force.

Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a...

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of one episode of Nukitsamees (Rahalaul).

Jaan Tooming's adaptation of the novel by A.H. Tammsaare.

Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts...

Five people who have recently reached middle-age are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. The...

A faithful city guardian the Old Thomas, who has stood on the top of the tower of Tallinn Town Hall for centuries, is suddenly gone. He has neglected...

Arvo Pärt and Lithuanian chamber orchestra are rehearsing for Old and Medieval music festival in Tallinn

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What...

Young people spending time in a bar in Tallinn. Documentary with an artistic attempt to interpret the passage of time, the value of the moment.

Aranei - spiders on web threads, leaves of grass and tree bark that may remain unnoticed and misunderstood from the height of the human eye.

Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called ordinary...

When we say "Tartu", we mean "Matteus". Arnold Matteus (1897-1986) studied architecture in Germany and worked as Tartu's chief architect during...

The film ridicules stereotyped thinking through an absurdist lens.

Death came to the main character's house with a scythe. And it hinted that the time of his life had already expired. But Jaagup wasn't going to die....

A film about the wildlife preserve Vilsandi that used to be the oldest in the former Soviet Union.