
Art
Kalju Kivi
Born 1951-03-23 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Kalju Kivi (March 23, 1951 – July 19, 2025) was an Estonian film artist, screenwriter and director.
Acting credits
7.5Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.
Tik-Tak
2014
5.9Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war.
Names in Marble
2002
8.0This modern western depicting juvenile crime takes as its theme the struggle of an individual against a vicious circle of violence. The spiral of violence and revenge is only broken when one person conquers himself and refuses to continue the vendetta. Siim, a 14-year old who grew up in the streets, is only spared the violence because he has a natural antipathy to it. Ultimately he too is caught up in the fighting when he tries to save money for his girlfriend's Christmas gift and the cash is stolen.
Too Tired to Hate
1995
10.0Estonia in a turbulent era of change. Citizen A, a modest, indecisive person, with great difficulty and inner fear fits into the changed realities of the world around him. And he constantly finds himself in various absurd situations.
To Each His Own
1990
Behind the camera
7.0In the metamorphosis of two ordinary pieces of rope there is a clear meaning - all people in the world are inseparably related. It is better to live in friendship.
Knot
1983
10.0An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.
A Sheet of Paper
1982
10.0An ordinary sheet of paper adventures through a bureaucratic world and finally finds its calling.
A Sheet of Paper
1982
NRA story based on estonian folk song about the girl Salme, who is choosing between three fiancés – Sun, Moon and Star.
Star Bride
1984
9.0A cut-out animation about ice and fire, the victory of the sun's life-giving warmth over icy nothingness.
Glass Cluster Game
1985
9.0Once upon a time a baker and a chimney sweep decide to change their jobs and it causes a lot of trouble.
The Baker and the Chimney Sweep
1983
9.0Once upon a time a baker and a chimney sweep decide to change their jobs and it causes a lot of trouble.
The Baker and the Chimney Sweep
1983
NRThe history through a repressed Estonia. An experimental animation about a "Humanoid", a man who becomes "Humanchinoid" because of society's impact. He can manage to survive in the consumer's world, and maybe even in other infinities.
Humachinoid
1995
A short animation.
Yesterday's Engine
2000
