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  • Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 11
    Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 11

    Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 11. film

    1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

    Estonian Consulate General in Sydney, activities of Estonian Houses and unions in Australia.

  • Cabbage Head
    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.

  • Countryboy and Cityslicker
    Countryboy and Cityslicker

    Original title: Setu vurle küüsis

    1993 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Aarne Vasar

    The Countryboy is getting married and invited his old school pal to the wedding. Strange things begin to happen once the Cityslicker arrives.

  • About the History of Tallinn
    About the History of Tallinn

    Original title: Tallinna ajaloost

    1992 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Karl Kello

  • Licence Plates of Participants in ESTO 1992
    Licence Plates of Participants in ESTO 1992

    Original title: ESTO 1992 osalejate autonumbrid

    1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Samples of licence plates of the cars belonging to Estonians, filmed during ESTO 1992.

  • Departure
    Departure

    Original title: Ärasõit

    1991 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

    An intellectual ride into a grotesque train-society witch depicts a train that passes through different landscapes, through the turning points of the closing century.

  • 3x1: Ja nii igal issanda aastal
    3x1: Ja nii igal issanda aastal

    1990 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

  • Naksitrallid
    Naksitrallid

    1990 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Avo Paistik

  • See olemine
    See olemine

    1990 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Sirge

  • The Sons of Torum
    The Sons of Torum

    Original title:Toorumi pojad

    1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.

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