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Saime kokku Solenzaras

2010 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Staar maakas

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
The Otepää Gonne

Original title: Otepää püss

2008 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Archaeologist Jaak Mäll decides to reconstruct a firearm dating back to 14th century. He uses medieval skills and technology in doing that.

The fragments of the oldest firearm known from Estonia were found during the archaeological excavations of the Otepää castle in 1955 but identified as such only in the late 1980s. In this film the "handgonne" from Otepää is brought back to life by archaeologist Jaak Mäll - re-fabricated using mediaeval technologies and trial-shot with gunpowder made according the recipes from the early 15th century.
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Black Ceiling

Original title: Must lagi

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender, Priit Pärg, Olga Marchenko, Mati Kütt

Estonia’s first animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling illustrating works by Estonian poets.

Seven animated poems. The Black Ceiling Project is a vision of 7 classic Estonian poems by 7 Estonian animators. Each two-minute film illustrates a more or less well-known text exactly the way the author of the film sees fit. The idea of the project is to create something new and unexpected by combining two branches of art. It is an experiment that unites visual poetry, or animation, with actual poetry.
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Lights in The Night

Original title: Tuled öös

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing.

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing. We see a row of windows of an apartment building. Individual windows at first – some windows are dark, some are open and people bustle about, living, being born, dying, splitting up, rejoicing, being sad. We briefly see around twenty tiny incidents in the lives of various people – as much as can be seen through an open window or an opening in the curtains. This is perhaps only a completely insignificant and random moment, but nevertheless, if we imagine further, we can guess what might ...
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Making Rain

Original title: Vihma tegemine

2007 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Frode Storaas

The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is acknowledged by the government, and in addition to being the region's most important spiritual leader, the Mambo has the right to hold court cases that deal with minor crimes, problems involving spirits and domestic affairs. He is assisted by several subchiefs and ritual leaders. In the northernmost corner of the Mambo’s kingdom, Mbuya Gondo, an over 70-years-old woman, is a spiritual medium. She often holds ceremonies at a well-known rock drawing site. Mambo Chirara is not pleased ...
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North Dragon

Original title: Põhjakonn

2007 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

With the help of Põrguneitsi, the mythological virgin of hell, a young man saves the world.

With the help of Põrguneitsi, the mythological virgin of hell, a young man saves the world. When he later comes ot understand that hes has not shanged anybody's attitude, he leads the world to ruin again.
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Estonian eagles

Original title: Eesti kotkad

2005 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Nature documentary by Rein Maran takes the viewer to the journey to the hidden world of Estonian eagles.

Eagles as the symbols of power and strength have been an inseparable part of human culture since ancient times. They form a bridge between the world of folk tales and myths and the modern day. According to the European Nature Conservation Act, all Estonian eagles belong to the first category and their nesting sites are hidden from public. Tavalise inimese kohtumine kotkaga looduses on küllalt erakordne. Vaatajale avaneb ainukordne võimalus osa saada nende kuninglike lindude eluolust oma keskkonnas.
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Enforced Settler

The original title "Sundasunik"

2004 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran
Juri Vella's World

Original title: Juri Vella maailm

2003 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

Liivo Niglas portrays Juri Vella, a Nenets of West Siberia, who has returned to reindeer herding in order to escape the expanding civilization.

Nenets Juri Vella is a social activist and writer living in West Siberia who wants to escape the attack of Western civilization and has created his own world. Ten years ago he left his village to go to taiga and become a reindeer breeder. He founded a reindeer farm including both a winter and summer camp and started to live there together with his oldest daughter's family. In order to save his grandchildren from the social and psychic problems, Juri has also established a school in the winter camp where two teachers work with five children.
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