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1981
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Valeria Anderson
Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, a scientist in Saku agricultural institute, whose aim is to improve potato cultivation.
Portrait documentary about Viive Rosenberg, scientist at the Estonian Research Institute of Agriculture, who develops the method of cultivating potatoes from meristem plants. Potato gets hit 800 times when harvested with a combine, thus potate yield decreases. While implementing Rosenberg's method it is possible to develop a healthy seed potato and thus increase potato crop yields. The filmmakers show Viive both in her laboratory and among her family. The potato plants cured by Rosenberg have provided first healthy seed potatoes - every tuber is a certificate for her work.
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2010
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Liina Paakspuu
“91 KM” tells the stories of four different people sharing one thing – they all live 91 km away from Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. In a peaceful manner, “91 KM” pays homage to the simple working man and shows our homeland through fear and mercy, worries and joy.
“91 Kilometers” tells the stories of four different people sharing one thing – they all live 91 km away from Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. In a peaceful manner, “91 Kilometers” pays homage to the simple working man and shows our homeland through fear and mercy, worries and joy.
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1975
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Jüri Tallinn
Directions of research of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
Physics of crystals, biological productivity of fir trees, issues of the protection of the Baltic Sea – all these problems are studied at the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The documentary introduces the work at the institute of physics, institute of zoology and botany, institute of thermophysics and observatory in Tõravere.
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2001
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Documentary
| Director:
Märt Sildvee
The documentary is about Tiia - a woman with generous heart who has signed a life-long contract with SOS-Children´s Village to be a professional mother.
This film is about Tiia - a woman with a sunny disposition who has signed a life-long contract with SOS-Children´s Village to be a professional mother, and to get paid for it. This is the story of the situation in Tiia´s SOS-family where the oldest child leaves for a home for young people to start his independent life and a new child from an asocial environment is taken into the family.
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2002
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Õnne Luha
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1972
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Documentary
| Director:
Leo Karpin
Musical-playful journey into the world of fantasy: what would happen if one day we would exist without chemical processes?
Just imagine for a second what would happen if one beautiful day all chemical processes and the related resuts were gone? What would be the day like without chemistry? Valdo Pant is looking for answers to these questions. Documentary introduces chemistry industry and offers comical staged episodes about a married couple who has lost chemistry from their daily life.
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2004
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Sulev Keedus
Ida, Natasha, Larissa and Fyodor Vassilyevich are family members who have a tight relationship that is precious and sacred to them but also limiting, challenging and obstructing. Meeting Ida and her family over the span of three years, the director achieved an amazing intimacy.
The Tallinn-Moscow-Tallinn night express leaves Tallinn, the capital of the Republic of Estonia at 5 p.m. and arrives in the Russian capital Moscow next morning at 9. For many decades, the train had forty-four sleeping compartments and was hugely popular. Today only five sleepers remain and even those are half empty. Politics and economics changed tremendously in these two countries, but Ida, a Russian living in Estonia, still works for this formerly exclusive train. The director of the film met Ida, the train team leader, while travelling and they spent half an hour talking. The bond was made. The next ...
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2016
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Documentary, Nature
| Director:
Ants Tammik
The film depicts two different worlds - man made and natural - opposites both in terms of content and form.
The film depicts two different worlds - man made and natural - opposites both in terms of content and form.
One of the most striking features of Estonian nature are its bog landscapes. Bogs act as a kind of filter by absorbing exhaust gas and cleaning the air for people to breathe. Bogs are also good at safeguarding groundwater. Still, it is not all blue skies ahead for these natural landscapes.
The film depicts two different worlds, opposites both in terms of content and form. Products of evolution, the irregular natural landscapes together with their inhabitants stand in opposition to manmade regularity, ...
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1991
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Elo Tust
Portrait documentary about volleyball coach Ivan Dratshov who can be undoubtedly called the Father of Estonian volleyball.
Russian soldier Ivan Dratshov came to Estonia on a military ship during the World War Two and stayed to live here. He turned out to be a important person in the development of Estonian sports. Dratshov founded Estonian school of volleyball and led the male volleball team to the victory - they became the champions of the Soviet Union in 1968. The documentary shows archival materials about the history of Estonian male and female volleyball sports. Former players share their memories about Ivan Dratshov (1921-1989), his life's work and complicated destiny.
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2006
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Documentary
| Director:
Ago Ruus
Black stallion Palladium is the best Trakehner show jumping horse in Estonia and in Europe.
Documentary portrait by Ago Ruus about the Trakehner show jumping horse Palladium who knows his value. His value is known also for his owner as well as the equestrian. Why is one horse preferred to the other horses? Is it the case of inborn and inherited talentedness? Or is it because of the breeders' skills and hard work? It is not that easy to find the right answer. Palladium is definitely the most famous and known sports horse in Estonia. There is not many horses in the world after whom a horseracing competition - Palladium Cup - has been named. ...
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2013
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Mirjam Matiisen
Men offering sheep shearing services decide to face the challenge at the European shearing championships.
Mehis and Raivo are the only professional sheep shearers in Estonia who compare their lifestyle with the construction workers who work abroad. Shearing work often brings them far away from home for a long time. For physics student Aadam sheep shearing is a well-paid job that allows him to focus on his studies while spending considerably little time for working. In the summer of 2013 Mehis, Raivo and Aadam make up their minds to go to Scotland in order to participate in European sheep shearing championships.
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2009
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Documentary
| Director:
Heilika Pikkov
A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.
Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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1980
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Documentary, Anthropological
| Director:
Peeter Tooming
Documentary by Peeter Toomingas about Siberian small nation and relationship between people and nature.
The Ket people (formerly known as Yenissey Ostyak people), a small nation in Siberia, forms only a fragment of a nation in Krasnoyarsk Krai in 1980s (with the population of about 1000 people). It is known that these people habitated the territories already during the Paleozoic era. About half of the Ket people have started to live in Kellog village-like districts and their connections to their roots (natural way of living, fishery, nature religion, Shamanism) are disappearing.
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2003
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik
Three men, three different stories about work and being lazy, dignity and despair, struggle for existence and self-pity in a ruthless society of success.
The humoristic documentary follows the struggle of three men, very different in their outlook on life: Georg – a loser, Peeter – an intellectual and Arto – a yuppie, all of them living in a society built on success and power. This is a film about work, indolence, dignity and despair.
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2020
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Documentary
| Director:
Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz
Dutiful daughter Eeva embarks on a quest to find and save her brother, deep in the bowels of Bogotás underworld.
Hille has a close relationship with her drug addict son. She sends him money every other week. After a fight they have over the phone, Lauri disappears mysteriously. His last known location is Bogotá, Colombia. At Hille's request, Lauri's sister, Eeva, reluctantly embarks on a journey and soon finds herself in the surreal and merciless underbelly of Bogotá. She contacts her only Colombian acquaintance, Carlos, who also lost his brother in the past, and they film their search for answers for a loss they both share.
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2019
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Documentary, Portrait
| Director:
Ruti Murusalu
The end of one act is the beginning of another.
The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes.
The documentary about Toomas Edur tells us an intimate story about the most outstanding Estonian ballet artist, his searches, changes in his life and adapting to those changes. Choreography and dancing partners may change but the simplicity, passion and belief in fairytales still remain...
On the half-way of his worldly journey, Toomas Edur looks back to his significant dancing career. High jumps on the world stages made him great also in the eyes of his own people, although the most remarkable footage of his performances have only recently been shown to his home audience. Where to go on and with whom, ...
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1990
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Mart Taevere
This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.
This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.
Unprecedented level of senseless industrialisation was achieved under his leadership in 10 years, hundreds of thousands of people were brought here as labor power. A fight against estonian language was started in several fields of activity. Any kind of thinking expect the "right" one was sufficient reason to arrest its carrier...
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2011
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Kristina Norman
In an atmosphere ripe with nationalism, two young engineers are commissioned by the Estonian Ministry of Defense to erect the country’s most important monument – a statue commemorating the War of Independence. With strong political and social pressure, the main characters of the film find themselves in many tragicomic situations and a constant row of ordeals. All of this paints a colourful and unique picture of the creation of a symbol during a time of financial crisis in Estonia.
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2008
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Peeter Brambat
In this film, we look at the Setos – a European ethnic group who are wedged between two different cultures – the Orthodox East and the Catholic-Lutheran West.
This is the story of a people who make do, living on the Eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world. One way or another, they are involved in the dawning of a new day for themselves and Europe.
Setomaa – the land of the setos is located in the south-eastern corner of the Republic of Estonia, bordering on Lake Pskov to the north, Russia to the east, and Latvia to the south. It has been a battleground for all manner of wars throughout history. This is the story of people who make do, lliving on the eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world.
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2010
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Documentary, Problem oriented
| Director:
Tanno Mee, Kaidi Tamm
Lots of people in the success oriented society are struggling with personal crisis and trying to escape it; this makes one question the validity of default choices one has made.
Academician Kaie suffers from crisis that influences both her health and private life. She reaches an understanding that she is no longer satisfied with the roles and status that she has had in the success oriented society. The price for three jobs and acknowledgement is inner dissatisfaction - is that a normal life? Kaie feels that she is stuck in a rut and decides to change her life in order to find herself and her true calling. Kaie finds support in Lilleoru community and the yoga teacher Ingvar Villido. While practising kriya yoga she consciously tries to re-organize and redesign ...
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2004
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Documentary, Observation
| Director:
Karol Ansip
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2010
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Documentary, Music Documentary
| Director:
Mikk Rand
Music documentary about the The Mixed Choir of the European Capital of Culture and its energetic conductor Veronika Portsmuth. The documentary follows their participation in the 6th World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China.
Happy people sing regardless of a lack of money and support from decision-makers - benevolent enthusiasm can go very far! The Mixed Choir of the European Capital of Culture 2011, initiated by the citizens of Tallinn, comprises of people from different fields of culture such as artists, actors, film directors, teachers, musicians, etc. They are passionate about singing and want to take their hometown to the world... Regardless of several obstacles, the choir is selected to compete at the Choir Olympics in Shanghai, which takes them to China. There, they represent their city at the World Expo 2010. Their motivation ...
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2013
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Documentary
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Ben Russell, Ben Rivers
A Spell is a non-fiction feature film in three parts that refers directly to the cinema of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer), Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), and Jean-Luc Godard (Sympathy for the Devil), among others.
A Spell is a non-fiction feature film in three parts that refers directly to the cinema of Jean Rouch (Chronicle of a Summer), Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), and Jean-Luc Godard (Sympathy for the Devil), among others. Shot on colour Super 16 mm film stock in the farther reaches of Finland, Estonia and Norway by artist/filmmakers Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (USA), A Spell depicts a single character at three disparate moments in his late 20s – as a hermit in the solitude of the Arctic Circle, as an uncertain participant in a contemporary “commune” in Estonia, and as the ...
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1948
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Documentary, Overviews
| Director:
Vladimir Parvel
Newsreel documentary depicting views of town and nature in the springtime about the Estonians who have returned to their homeland after war, their new life in Soviet Estonia.
Newsreel documentary depicting views of town and nature in the springtime about the Estonians who have returned to their homeland after war, their new happy life in Soviet Estonia. Busy times of reconstructing life in both towns and rural areas of Estonia after the war. Expatriate Estonians who have recently returned to the homeland have their role in this process – the filmmakers introduce a construction worker, a blacksmith, a chemist, a master of ship, a gynecologist, a farmer, a fisherman who have found jobs in Soviet Estonia. Among others there is also wrestler Kristjan Palusalu and chemists Heino Kipper ...