Ilmatar Film

A film about Kristiina Ehin, the beloved and internationally known modern poetess of Estonia. Her honest, beautiful and painful sharings reveal to us what experiences she has had to go through to grow into the woman and poet we know her as today. The film contains topics that Kristiina agreed to share for the first time during the filming of "Walker on Water".

These stories take us to the dreamlike outskirts of Estonia, where the everyday is intertwined with the paranormal. At the heart of the film is the human desire to understand the unseen and listen to those whose experiences are often ignored. It is a peaceful and human journey to the edge of the unknown, which does not seek proof, but tries to understand what it means to believe.

Descent into the Valley follows photographer and artist Peeter Laurits - a kind of trickster or shaman who moves along the border between different worlds and realities. He brings messages from the realms of art, science, mythology, esotericism and ecology, building highways from the level of moss and bark beetles all the way to the cosmic spheres. The film is set in Kütiorg, a sacred forested valley that is at once a studio and a strangely displaced mystical landscape, where past, present and imagination coexist. Kütiorg becomes the film’s central metaphor: a seemingly small place whose invisible trajectories and darker winding paths open new ways of perceiving a world in perpetual collapse, drawing both the viewer and the protagonist deeper into its depths. The film reveals Laurits through conversations, creative work and performative everyday life, where the low and the high, the sacred and the mundane, heaven and the compost heap exist side by side.