The film follows a group of adults and their children who in the summer of 2014, decide to leave their customary life arrangement and start the first intentional eco-community in Estonia.

Combining their savings, they buy an old manor, 3750 square meters of half-decayed buildings along with 33 hectares of agricultural land. Before them, the manor accommodated a nursing home.

The Circle includes five families – 12 adults and 6 children. Their experiment was inspired by a wider movement of eco-communities, aiming to design an alternative, collective life model focused on non-violent harmonic relationships, co-operation, nature conservancy, permaculture and small human footprint.

However the mission that includes all these inspiring perspectives, also comes with big challenges that one has to face, and the community as a whole in order to survive as such.

With a clear and balanced view on the effort of starting something so interesting, the director Margit Lillak is allowing us to feel almost like a member of this community. Without idealizing or judging it, she surely lets the viewer get a feeling of the challenges and the beauty of the endeavor

Director: Margit Lillak
DoP: Margit Lillak, Mihkel Soe, Paavo Eensalu
Editors: Jaak Ollino Jr, Helis Hirve
Sound: Mart Otsa
Sound Design: Harmo Kallaste
Composer: Sten Sheripov
Producer: Johanna Trass