Mark-Toomas Soosaar

Woman from Kinhu

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did. Their traditional lifestyle unfolds in front of his camera: customary songs and rituals, and heartfelt images of people’s daily lives.

Lasnamäe

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

The director asks straightforward questions in a phone call to the lead architect of the district of Lasnamäe, Malle Meelak. The topics include the bureaucracy, planning and living quality in the brutalist district of panel houses. He gets surprisingly straightforward answers because Meelak doesn't know that the call is being recorded. Later, in a public interview conducted in front of the camera, Meelak's answers are quite different.

Jõulud Vigalas

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

Evald Aavik, Kersti Kreismann

The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavouring towards freedom and equality and alarmed by the violence of the revolution.

Vilsandi, mu kodu

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

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

Mees ja naine

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

Juhan Viiding, Ada Lundver

A parody of several popular movies such as A Man and Woman (1966) and The Last Relic (1969).

Anu Raud - elumustrid

Mark-Toomas Soosaar

Anu Raud

Kääriku Farm in Viljandi County is home to one of the cornerstones of Estonian textile art. Together with her elderly mother Valda Rau, the esteemed textile artist and lecturer Anu Raud reflects on life and death.