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Happy Birthday

Original title: Happy Birthday

2012 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

“Happy Birthday” is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot.

“Happy Birthday” is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favour or will the status quo remain firm?
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Peeter

2001 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary directed by Jüri Sillart about filmmaker and photographer Peeter Tooming and his battle with serious disease.

Peeter Tooming – photographer, cinematographer, film director and publicist – has lived and is living an extremely intense creative life despite the fact that the sword of Damocles has been dangling above his head. He lives thanks to his will and bravery. He is a man who stands on gates; a man who has gone further than us. Who confronts the Unknown and himself. He is amongst us and yet halfway the River. There is still hope that he will return, but he won't be the same person. He has seen the world and its values from the slightly different ...
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Laine's 30th Birthday in Askvägen, 1990

Title in Estonian: Laine 30. sünnipäev Askvägenil 1990

1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Celebration of Laine's 30th birthday in Askvägen on June 16, 1990.

Laine's birthday party in the Nõu family's home in Askvägen on June 16, 1990. Among the guests are brother Heino and sister Liia with their partners; relatives and friends of the family. Laine opens the presents, three ceramic cat figures. Birthday song "May you live" in Estonian, also other birthday songs in Swedish and English. Clinking glasses. Lively conversation in Swedish at the party table. There are plenty of house plants and artworks on the wall in the Nõu family's home.
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Alvi and Aino's Wedding

Original title: Alvi ja Aino pulmad

1985 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Aino and Alvi's wedding party. Young Estonians sing to the bride and groom.

Aino and Alvi are already an elderly couple. There are lots of wedding guests who are sitting behind tables in small groups. The guests are singing "Long live!" to the bride and groom, then clinking their glasses together. As it is also the bride's birthday, she is being greeted with a song. Younger Estonians sing three songs connected to Estonia. The performance is so beautiful and touching that it brings tears into eyes to some of the people in the crowd. Close-up of the people's faces, including the ones of linguist Eduard Vääri's sister and mother. Guests are in a ...
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Ariste

1985 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mart Kadastik, Lembit Blauhut
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The Herd Boy is the King

Title in Estonian: Karjapoiss on kuningas

1982 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vello Kallaste

Karl Aru, retired General Major of artillery, celebrates his 80th birthday with a festive yet official reception and introduces his home village.

Retrospective documentary about Karl Aru who was born in the beginning of 20th century in a farm and became a General Major of the Soviet Army. On his 80th birthday, he criticizes the degradation of rural life. Reportage about his official birthday party held in the Tallinn Officers' House, mingled by the journeys in his former home village.
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Family

Title in Estonian: Perekond

1971 | Documentary | Director: Virve Koppel

Why is the birth rate in Estonia so low?

There are countries in the world where population is explodingly increasing, yet in some countries it is really small or non-existent. Us, Estonians, we belong among the latter. During several months, filmmakers visit a family where the second child is expected. The filming and film ends when a small human being is born. What does it mean for the family? What does it mean for our republic? Reporter Rein Karemäe.
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Teine kodu

1960 | Documentary | Director: Nikolai Dolinski
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In the Backyard

Original title: Tagahoovis

1957 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Viktor Nevežin

The film directed by Viktor Nevezhin is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts, depicting the life in slums in 1930s with melacholy humour and colourful characters. It is the first Estonian film adaptation of a literary classics where the best drama actors of that time perform.

The film is based on the story "In the Backyard" by Oskar Luts and the drama play directed by Andres Särev, telling the story about the distressed residents living in poor slums during the economic crisis of the first Estonian Republic in early 1930s. It is the life in the backyard both literally and symbolically.
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Lugu miljonist

1957 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov