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2004
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Documentary
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Arvo Iho
Estonian Television Childrens' Choir grows up together with the Republic of Estonia.
Filmmakers are searching for the similarties between the young people and a young state, they both grow up. The film tells about the members of the girls's choir of Estonian Television who started to sing together at a very young age in a state that was regaining its independence also with the support of singing at that time. The film documents the period of 1990-2004, starting from the time of the so-called Singing Revolution and Estonia regaining its independence until the joining the European Union. Filmmakers follow the process of growing up of the girls during an era full of ...
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1983
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Documentary
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Valeria Anderson
Documentary by Valeria Anderson about one day in a workers' canteen.
Portrait documentary about the everyday life of the workers of a workers' canteen, about their worries and joys. These are people responsible for what they do and who find satisfaction in their work in the Klementi sewing enterprise.
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1989
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Heini Drui
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1964
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Eugen Rozental
Documentary about the industries and the production in Estonian SSR.
The optimistic documentary introduces Estonian industry and its production, commissioned by the committee for co-ordinating scientific research of the Council of Ministers of Estonian SSR. The materials from the newsreel "Soviet Estonia" have been used in the documentary with Russian voiceover.
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2017
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Documentary
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Marianna Kaat
Film follows different age present-day Estonian Russians who are facing difficulties with their identities.
14 CASES is a character driven story and it focuses on personal stories of born in Estonia young people who are the descendants of migrants from the Soviet era, representing almost the third generation. Although they lived their whole life surrounded by Estonian national symbols and colours, lifestyle and cuisine, they still speak Russian as their mother tongue, got secondary education in Russian language, listen and watch Russian radio and television, and gravitate towards Russian culture. Some of Estonian Russians face an identity crisis: a conflict of national identity with civil identity.
Now almost for four years we've filmed several Russian-speaking ...
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2022
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Documentary, Problem oriented
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Moonika Siimets
Poetical documentary film of the longing for and the search of happiness between Estonia and Finland.
More than 70,000 Estonians live and work in Finland, at the same time as their families, parents, children and homes are in Estonia.
The documentary film speaks about adjusting to new conditions, sticking to and loosing one’s roots, the yearning for and the search for happiness. The film is a humorously wistful documentation of families living in the snowy fields of Lapland, apartments in Vantaa, on the staircases of shopping malls, at construction sites, hotel lobbies, and of grandchildren in the living rooms of Estonian grandmothers who are waiting for their children to come home.
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2007
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Documentary, Portrey
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Kerttu Soans
Year by year, Santa Clause's working day has resembled a fairy tale where both children and adults participate with excitement and joy.
It is December, the time when it is impossible to reach an agreement because time moves at a different pace. However, there is somebody to whom one can call in order to fix a date and be sure that he will be there. This person is Saunta Claus. More than twenty families have been marked in his calendar for appointments.
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1984
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Documentary, Portrey
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Arvo Iho
Portrait documentary about sculptor Ülo Õun.
Portrait documentary about the life and work of creator Ülo Õun. The 45-year-old artist is interviewd by Jaak Olep and Arvo Iho. The film is made three years before the death of the artist who was extremely productive. Õun talks about the early years of his artist career, the journey of development and his views on art. Filmmakers have recorded the artist in his studio while working and at his home among his family. An excellent and well-planned selection of Õun's work has been presented in the documentary.
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2010
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Documentary, Portrey
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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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2012
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Documentary, Observation
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Margit Lillak
When people make plans, the gods laugh (juhtlause)
How to give birth? Under water or on the dry land? In the hospital or at home? Standing up or lying down? Will routine or free will ultimately come out on top?
A humorous documentary examines how contemporary women relate to childbirth and what options they have to choose between in making their decisions. The author, a main character of the film becomes pregnant for the first time. In parallel with her somewhat Borat-like adventures in the diverse world of services, packages and birth methods, the story of two very different women unfolds.
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1968
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Documentary, Observation
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Andres Sööt
Andres Sööt, a legendary documentary filmmaker in Estonia, records the environments and people in Tallinn cafes with his candid camera in late 1960s.
The film introduces a selection of various guest types in cafes and night clubs in late 1960s when old ladies still had some bourgeois manners from the first republic of Estonia and the youngsters of the Soviet regime were not served in a restaurant if they had no proper clothing. The guests of Tallinn's legendary cafes "Pearl" and "Moscow" were filmed in their own time. The uniqueness of the film is expressed through a strangely independent soundtrack that observes everyday bustle from the heights of melancholy poetry and remote uranography. Artur Alliksaar's poetry is read by Aarne Üksküla.
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2005
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Documentary, Overviews
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Rein Kotov
During six hours thousands of tourists from the American cruise ship are being introduced to the city of Tallinn - they are provided with a short city tour enriched by subjective commentaries of local guides and some souvenirs.
Huge cruise ships come to Tallinn in summer, each one carrying thousands of tourists, mostly from the United States. They stay in Tallinn just for 6 hours. Endless lines of bus-drivers, tour-guides and tour-managers await them in the harbour. The cruisers rush through the main sightseeing locations, eat out in town and board on the ship again. Tallinn was just another pit-stop on their long route. The pier is filled with waving customer servants exhausted from the day’s tense work. “6 Hours” tells a humorous story about one summer day in one of the Eastern European town called Tallinn.
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