Estonian film will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2012. This year’s Worldfilm festival decided to mark this event with two special programs:
“Life at the coast of the gulf of riga” will bring to a screen films that have captured fading Livonian nation and life on tiny Ruhnu island through 20. century.

Ruhno
(dir. Theodor Luts, Theodor Luts Film Production 1931) 17 min

Ruhnu
(dir. Andres Sööt, Tallinfilm 1965) 10 min

From the Livonian Coast
(original title: “Liivi rannikult”, Eesti Kultuurfilm 1940, text by dr. hist. Ferdinand Linnus) 10 min

On the coast of Livonia
(original title: “Liivi rannal”, dir. Endel Nõmberg, Eesti Telefilm 1966) 20 min

Livonian stories
(original title: Liivlaste lood”, dir. Enn Säde, Eesti Telefilm 1991) 30 min

“Peoples from close and far away” recalls the seventies and eighties in Estonian documentary, when search for the roots and identity turned some filmmakers attention to Finno-Ugric peoples and other peoples in the North. Two less known films by legendary Estonian filmmakers Peeter Tooming and Mark Soosaar and Lennart Meri’s enchanting “Shaman” are on the screen.

Living history
(original title: “Elamise lugu,” dir. Peeter Tooming, Tallinfilm 1980) 10 min

Millennial music
(original title: “Tuhandeaastane muusika”, dir. Mark Soosaar, Eesti Telefilm 1976−1978) 40 min

Shaman
(Original title: “Šamaan”, dir. Lennart Meri, 1977/1997) 22 min