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Roots: One Hundred Years of War and Music

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Katrin Laur, Gabriel Castro Rouillé
3,2,1 - beautiful dive

Original title: 3,2,1 - ilus hüpe

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mihkel Soe

Toomas Talts, an experienced skydiver, practises extreme sports where one risks his life while jumping down from high-rise objects; however, this act is also accompanied by a momentary feeling of experiencing total freedom.

Toomas Talts spends most of his free time in the air. He is basically the only one in Estonia who practises BASE-jumping. Practitioners of this field of sports are considered to be crazy as they jump from bridges, high-rise buildings, TV towers or cliff edges that are high enough. The jumpers have no reserve parachutes. Thus, the BASE-jumpers from different countries form a specific community where everyone takes care of each other and where group jumps are performed. Why do people risk their lives? To whom and what do they have to prove? Is it necessary after all?
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The Player

Original title: Mängija

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

Documentary about Jaan Ehlvest, legendary Estonian chess player, international grandmaster. The film investigates his self-searching and relationship with professional sports and his family.

The documentary about professional chess player Jaan Ehlvest and his daily life in a harsh world of professional sports where every result influences one's income and subsistence. The protagonist questions whether it is worth living a life where between championships he keeps running through different American cities and staying in hotels that look exactly the same. So it is not that much a sports documentary but rather a view into a development story of a talented and selfish man.
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Estonia's Choice 2001

Original title: Eesti valik 2001

2002 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

An important moment in Estonian history has been recorded for future generations - the process of presidential elections of the Republic of Estonia in 2001 and electing Arnold Rüütel as the President of Estonia.

After three rounds of voting in Riigikogu and two rounds of voting in the electoral body, Arnold Rüütel, former chairman of the Supreme Council of ESSR was elected the President of the Republic of Estonia for the next five years during the presidential elections in 2001. The filmmakers follow the process of elections, they talk to the politicians and presidential candidates and discuss the problems that our small country is facing and will face.
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Letters from the East

Original title: Kirjad idast

1995 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andrew Grieve

The film directed by Andrew Grieve tells about families that have been broken during the war and about the reunion of family members in the independent republic of Estonia.

Anna travels from England back to her native country Estonia in order to find her mother whom she has lost during the war. While getting in the middle of the events of restoration of Estonian's independence, Anna meets people full of yearning for freedom. She will discover that despite of having been abroad for a long time she is still having a deep connection to her native land.
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Mission Impossible

1995 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar, Peeter Tammisto
Cabbage Head

Original title: Kapsapea

1993 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt

It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman.

It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequense of events is launched by a huge cabbage head growing on a plot land that belongs to a poor peasant estonian woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia. Against a backround of chasing and hunting two young people find their love.
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So long, Dracula!

Title in Estonian: Isake Dracula Eesti variant

1993 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

Anatomy of totalitarism. Sarcastic retrospect to the darkest era in Estonian history during 20th century.

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his era when poets wrote him odes and poems but the bushwhackers sang: " ... and our aim is to kill Stalin". From the tribunes, Stalin was addressed as "the great friend of Estonian nation", nevertheless, for the majority of Estonian Stalin's name embodied the violence and lies that hit Estonia. This influenced all areas of life and no-one was left untouched by the terror. The documentary breakrs the myth about the joint resistance of Estonian nation to the foreign power and gives the warning that there is the possibility that similar things could happen again.
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Saa vabaks, Eesti meri

1991 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Kusmin
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Tartu sõjakomissar Ants Laaneots

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
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