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2009
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Margit Lillak
Portrait documentary about Andrus Elbing alias Babyface - a poet, rap singer and hip-hop artist with a complicated background.
Andrus Elbing alias Babyface is a 28-year-old poet, rap singer, a hip-hop artist and a former prisoner from the island of Saaremaa. He tells his story through recollections and poetry - how he became from a risk group child to a criminal young man, from a prisoner to a poet and a musician. Through his art, Babyface looks for his way out from his "personal imprisonment"; however, the locks of an inner prison door won't open that easily. The documentary follows the way Andrus adjusts to freedom after his imprisonment. Is it possible to escape such past after all? Is ...
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2024
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Andres Keil
She has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses.
Between the Southern Estonian hills, there is a Tobra stable where trainer Merike Markus has 27 riding horses and 70 children to look after. Merike has one hand and low demands on her own well-being, but a big soul and high demands on the humanity of children and the friendliness of horses. On the surface, life in the Tobra stable ticks like a peaceful everyday cycle, but it's not like that. Every day brings something new. Through Merike, who herself lives through the lives of all his students, trainees, every meeting in training begins with what has happened in the ...
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2006
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Documentary, Nature
| Director:
Ago Ruus
The project of protecting and restoring endangered species in North-West of Estonia was the initiative of European Union Life-Nature Programme.
Silma landscape protection area in North-West of Estonia administers three territories under protection: Osmussaare landscape protection area, Silma ecological reserve and Vormsi landscape protection. The objective of EU's Life-Nature Programme is to restore and preserve half-natural coastal environments that provide living conditions for endangered migratory birds. The documentary focuses on the collaboration with local people related to the abovementioned programme.
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2014
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Ruti Murusalu
"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning.
Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable.
One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing
as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning.
Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
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1980
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Igor Kurve
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2008
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Documentary
| Director:
Jouni Hiltunen
Documentary by Finnish director Jouni Hiltunen about the enthusiasm, hopes and reality of railway constructors in Baikal-Amur district.
In 1974, Leonid Brezhnev, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of USSR, called for the Soviet youth to construct the 3500-kilometre-long arterial railway including a city and 200 stations in Baikal-Amur district, Russia (BAM) in order to use the immense amount of mineral resources of the area. Thousands of young people, including Estonians, went to work in Siberia, while believing in Brezhnev's idea. The railway was being constructed simultaneously from both ends and the top event was planned to be when the ends would finally meet. Brezhnev died in 1982 and BAM was not even close to completion. It was ...
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2009
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Artur Talvik
Portrait documentary directed by Artur Talvik about Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto and about his difficult journey towards the highest rank of Japanese sumo wrestling.
The documentary tells the story of Kaido Höövelson alias Baruto, a common Estonian boy coming from the countryside, and about his difficult journey to the closed circle of Japanese sumo wrestling. His quickly developing Sumo career is being admired by his fans both in Japan and in homeland. He becomes famous that is a complicated burden. Through Kaido's eyes we can see the differences between the Eastern and Western cultures through sumo traditions, strict rituals and hierarchy. The director of the film started to follow Baruto's activities since 2005 - during the four years of filming there were both ups ...
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2012
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Manfred Vainokivi
Portrait documentary about actor and theatre director Eino Baskin.
A portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audiences (especially women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by some and cursed by others, and imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Baskin has built two theatres from the scratch. After the second stroke he was in a coma for 47 days but returned. A rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin’s life.
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1984
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Documentary, Overviews
| Director:
Rein Maran
Poetic documentary directed by Rein Maran about Estonian nature, history and the present day.
How far can one travel in Estonia during half an hour? And to perform everything one has seen in a flowing poetic language? The essence of the times, places, nature and people taken from the summer of 1984 when Lasnamäe district in Tallinn was young, rural life in Estonia was blooming and people mainly drove cars made in Soviet Union. Were these truly the best years of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia or did it only seem so? The red roofs of the Old Town of Tallinn have always been red; Tartu will always greet the Midsummer Day with ...
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2001
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Documentary
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Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik
Portrait documentary by Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi observes the parallel lives of two opposite women - Anne Eenpalu, the leader of "Home Daughters" and Tiina Jantson, activist in Estonian beauty contests. Both women take care of cultivating beauty in Estonia in their own way.
The documentary observes two matriarchs - Tiina Jantson governs the beauty contest empire in Estonia; Anne Eenpanu leads the activities of "Home Daughters" - a girls' corps of Estonian Defence League. The film's main characters and their activities are very different. Whereas Anne's pedagogical approach is almost totally based on the love for fatherland then Tiina spends her days in the glitter of show business. However, there are some similiarities in their lives. The documentary studies the values, gender roles and moral norms in Estonia at the beginning of 21st century.
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2016
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Documentary
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Taavi Arus
Documentary follows the rising phenomenon of craft beer scene in Estonia throughout 2015 along with its main protagonists – brewers, sellers and variously minded consumers.
Craft beer, microbrewery, IPA, IBU, gipsy breweries, top- and post-fermentation – these are just a few keywords that for the past couple of years can be heard more and more often among serious beer enthusiasts. This prompts a fair question: “What is it all about?” „Beer Revolution“ does not provide straight answers but it does give a kaleidoscopic overview of producers, sellers and consumers of craft beers in Estonia in 2015.
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1987
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Documentary
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Toomas Lepp
Heli Teppo, music teacher of Rõuge basic school and her pupil Andres Piigli express their thoughts and emotions about the youth song celebration in 1987.
Gustav Ernesaks once greeted the young participants in song celebration: "Welcome, you vivacious bees of sound! You have gathered, note by note, the honey of song to our joint honeycomb of song with such hard work and care!" Music teacher Heli Teppo and Andres Piigli, pupil of Rõuge basic school, express their memories about the youth song celebration in 1987, that brought a new swarm of bees of song to the song festival ground. They are interviewed by Lehte Hainsalu.
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1976
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Documentary
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Kaupo Klooren
Graphic artist Herald Eelma and his artwork.
According to critics, graphic artist Herald Eelma belongs to the generation of artists who has significantly influenced the development of contemporary graphic art in Estonia. The filmmakers have recorded the artist during three months – Herald Eelma in his working environment; sketching and drawing. The artist takes part in woodcut competition, for which he creates wood engravings "The series of Vargamäe".
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2012
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Documentary, Observation
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Manfred Vainokivi
Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers and also have this love-hate relationship with the world that writers expose.
So when we keep our poets in a special house and observe them like we watch animals in the zoo, listen how they shout and howl their poetry, we are partly freed from our everyday identity and become romantic poetry desperadoes too.
Take a closer look ...
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2007
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Documentary
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Mati Viiul
The documentary introduces the daily life of the Institute of Geology and the story of its new building - the process of construction, moving and opening.
Institute of Geology (of the Tallinn University of Technology, formerly also the Institute of Geology of Estonian Academy of Sciences) is an independent research, development and teaching institution of the university related to earth sciences. The documentary introduces the sites where the institute was initally designed to be built and its first projects as well as designs. Finally the right location for the institute was found - in the campus of the Tallinn University of Technology.
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1976
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Märt Müür
Debut documentary by Märt Müür gives a bold and professional overview about the production of ploughing equipment inappopriate for non-chernozemic fields.
Incisive documentary on problematic issues - about the deficiencies and inability to co-ordinate the designing and production process of ploughing machinery for the high-capacity tractors. The filmmakers interview the chief engineers and other managers of the Soviet production associations Soyuzpochvoma and Odessapochvomash. The documentary was completed in collaboration with the Estonian Agricultural Technology Association.
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2020
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Enn (Ernst) Lillemets
Documentary film sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities - Betti Alver.
Enn Lillemets authored film about his close friend and soul mother Betti Alver.
Through personal memories and Betti’s creative masterpieces, Lillemets sheds light on one of Estonian poetry’s brightest and most engaging personalities. Actress Saara Nüganen, and poets Viivi Luik, Eeva Park and Mats Traat accompany him in this film.
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2022
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Documentary
| Director:
Marek Vahula
The story of environmental protection of Kunda Bay in 1992–1993.
The documentary introduces the story of environmental protection of Kunda bay in 1992–1993 when two extension plans for the port of Kunda were impeded – to Letipea in the winter of 1992 and to Toolse in the winter of 1993. And as a final result, the port remained to its historical location.
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2011
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Documentary
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Martin Korjus
Documentary about the dreams of a father and his sons in the world of formula and kart racing as well as about the fulfilment of the dream through hard work, success and loneliness.
The shared dream of a former racer Aivar Korjus and his son Kevin is to reach behind the wheel of Formula 1. Aivar had dedicated his life to his son. Now that Kevin is grown up and reached professional sports world their lives have been drifting apart. Aivar's younger son, 11-year-old Kaspar, dreams about achieving even higher results than his older brother. Aivar continues the path of his dreams. His dream is to fulfill dreams.
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2004
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Documentary, Anthropological
| Director:
Priit Valkna
In South-Estonia, being cast the evil eye, or the malocchio, remains a daily threat for those admired or envied by others.
In South-Estonia, being cast the evil eye, or the malocchio, remains a daily threat for those admired or envied by others. The film crew travels to Võrumaa, to dig deeper into the story of how and why bewitchers cast the evil eye on the children or livestock of the object of their envy, how to break the spell and why this belief continues to this day.
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1987
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Documentary
| Director:
Hans Roosipuu
Short documentary about bicycling as a recreational sports.
Documentary about bicycling as a recreational sports and the local experience in this field in Estonia. Bicycling veteran Georg Janson talks about the degradation in the quality of bikes. Colourful episodes about the traditional sports party – the bicycle rally in Tartu where most of the participants ride bikes just for fun and recreation.
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2015
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Documentary, Portrait
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Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli
A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.
Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.