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The Last Prince

Original title: Viimane vürst

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kaupo Kruusiauk

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy.

A documentary about Peeter Volkonski lets us take peek in the everyday life of a colorful cultural figure and explores how he manages to find balance between the household and the aristocracy. Prince Volkonski with his respectable pedigree is an Estonian singer, actor, producer and translator. What is the price of public admiration and is there enough room for compromises when dedicating your life on creation? How to enjoy the flight of a free spirit when the problems of everyday life can strike at any moment? Besides the creational activity the documentary explores the role of the hero's always supporting wife Maria ...
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Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
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Sparkling Rivers

Original title: Sädemete jõed

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

Georgia is not only a country of wine and high mountains, but it is has also more than 25 000 rivers. Running water is a richness, that has been noticed by a lot of investors and made Georgia their desired destination. Even now 80 per cent of Georgian electricity comes from hydroelectricity power plants and in the near future there are plans to construct more than 100 new stations. For thousands of people it means they have to be resettled. Shady deals, unclear investors registered in tax havens, energy minister’s business interests in the hydro construction company and deaths by ...
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Pro Patria ad Astra

2002 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils

Documentary about the story of founding the Estonian air force in the War of Independence and its development between the two war worlds.

Documentary about the history of Estonian aviation tells about the years 1918-1940. The title of the film – Pro Patria ad Astra – is the Latin motto of Estonian Aviation School "to the stars for one's fatherland". With the help of documents, photographs and rare film footage the documentary gives an overview about the aviation since the War of Independence to the destruction of aviation by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The documentary shows reserve pilot Hans Luik; Remi Milk, an aviation officer back at the era of the first Republic of Estonia and other people related to the field ...
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Amazonia III - Vana Merekindlus

2000 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils
Paragrahv 58/4

1996 | Documentary | Director: Pinchas Schatz
Äraneetud linn

1996 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 5. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 5. film, I jagu

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

The expatriate Estonians in Thirlmere, Australia. Their history and present day.

There is a rest home for elderly in an Estonian village, Thirlmere. Views of the beautiful greenery and buildings. Having lunch in the dining hall. Urmas Maidla, chairman of Estonian Relief Committee, talks about the founding of the recreation village, including the act of land purchase in 1959 and accommodating the present residents. Peeter Vilo, administrator of Thirlmere hostel, introduces the living conditions of the elderly residents and the general economic management. Interior space of the hostel. Former athlete Linda Karp introduces her room and shows the collection of ESTO badges. Jewellery artist and silversmith Niina Ots-Rätsep tells about her ...
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Jaan Tõnisson 1868…

1993 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks
Interview with Mihkel Martsoo in Askvägen on November 23, 1985, 2/2

Title in Estonia: Intervjuu Mihkel Martsooga Askvägenil 23.11.1985, 2/2

1985 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn Nõu's interview with Mihkel Martsoo in Uppsala on November 23, 1985.

Enn Nõu interviews Mihkel Martsoo in his home in Uppsala in November 1985. The elderly man recalls his release from the prison camp in Siberia in 1957. Good communication skills and knowing local customs helped him to get the document for coming to Estonia, he managed to catch a ship en route to Krasnoyarsk and from there he could travel by train to Moscow. Martsoo was lucky to get from Moscow to Estonia thanks to a friendly militiaman. In his homeland, Martsoo worked in Tori while repeatedly applying for a permission to travel to Sweden in order to see his ...
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