Emotional Horsepower

It wasn’t long ago when we used horses widely for building houses, dousing fires, delivering post, working the fields and even traveling the world. Today, instead of watching horses in everyday usage, we’re left with watching them as part of horse shows as much as we come to see pop stars at Saku Suurhall venue. Tallinn International Horse Show with its sixteen years of history has earned their reputation as the Song Festival of the Estonian horse people.

The brand new documentary that offers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse to horse shows and explores the inner lives of the people infected with the so-called horse disease, tells the story of how the idea to bring to Estonia the first and thus far the only indoor competition saw the light of day, what kind of hardships and happier moments the organisers had to face in the early years, and why a group of businessmen have thrown colossal sums of money into the seemingly bottomless and unappreciated pit.