Scriptwriter: Liis Nimik, Anti Naulainen
Cinematographer: Erik Põllumaa
Sound recordist: Mart Kessel-Otsa, Ann Reimann, Nikita Shiskov
Editor: Liis Nimik
Sound designer & Re-recording mixer: Israel Bañuelos M.P.S.E.
Producer: Edina Csüllög, Liis Nimik
65 min / color / 16 mm / 2023
AWARDS:
- Beldocs, Serbia: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
- Estonian Documentary Guild Colleague award 2024
- Estonian Cultural Endowment - Best Documentary 2023
- Docpoint Tallinn - Young Filmmaker Award 2024
- Nominations at Estonian Film Awards 2023 - Best Documentary, Best Sound Design, Best Editing
- Nomination: Film of the Year Award by Estonian Guild of Film Journalists 2023
FESTIVALS:
- Visions du Réel, Šveits, OFFICIAL COMPETITION OF MID-LENGTH FILMS
- HotDocs, Kanada, OFFICIAL COMPETITION OF MID-LENGTH FILMS
- Manaki Brothers, Macedonia
- Lima International Film Festival, Peru
- Finno-Ugric Film Festival, Latvia
- Northern Lights Film Festival, Belarus
- Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany
- PLONS! International Short Documentary Film Festival, Netherlands
- Trieste Film Festival, Italy, OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- Izmir Sinema Evi, Turkey
- Riga Pasaules Film Festival, Latvia
- Beldocs, Serbia, OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- Este Film Festival, Rumenia
- The International Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands, Spain, OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, USA
- CINEAST, Luxemburg
Päikeseaeg
In nature everything is in balance. In the circle of life, which never ends, everyone has their task - plants and mushrooms, insects and animals... This diverse orchestra always finds its rhythm and tone. Recognizing the distinctiveness of being human, this film looks at what are our possibilities to peacefully co-exist within that co-creation of nature. For nearly seven years of exploring the periphery countryside of Estonia, this oneiric journey filmed on 16mm brings to the foreground the daily rhythms of ordinary people and animals in different ages and phases of their lives and so it composes an analogue gospel of a microcosm, which has consciously or unconsciously rejected the central, arrogant doctrine of human exceptionality.