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  • The Wayfarers
    The Wayfarers

    Original title: Rändajad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Eva Sepping

    Three Siberian Estonian women are looking for paradise here and outside the borders.

  • At Home with Refugees
    At Home with Refugees

    Original title: Pagulasega elutoas

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Kristina Norman

    Jana is a manager of an asylum centre in a small Estonian village. People from various culture and with different backgrounds are waiting for the verdicts that will change their destinies.

  • Life on Slippery Ice
    Life on Slippery Ice

    Original title: Elu libedal jääl

    2012 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Brett Orloff

    Who are the refugees living among us? How have they come here? How is it possible (if at all) for them to adopt to the life in Estonia?

  • Three springs of Total Immersion Method
    Three springs of Total Immersion Method

    Original title: Keelekümblejate kolm kevadet

    2012 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Russian children study Estonian language with the Total Immersion Method in a Tallinn school in 2001-2012.

  • Crimean teacher
    Crimean teacher

    Original title: Krimmi õpetaja

    2009 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Documentary directed by Vahur Laiapea about Tiina Rekand, teacher of Estonian language in Crimean Aleksandrovka school and Rita Kuusk-Kadilkina, a Crimean-Estonian woman who has provided temporary home for teachers from Estonia.

  • Kinnunen
    Kinnunen

    Original title: Kinnunen

    2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Andri Luup

    The romantic comedy directed by Andri Luup tells the story of a Finnish man and an Estonian woman who find each other despite of hardships.

  • Siberi õpetaja
    Siberi õpetaja

    2001 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Heini Drui

  • Olen uhke, et olen Eesti venelane
    Olen uhke, et olen Eesti venelane

    1998 | Documentary | Director: Reijo Nikkilä

  • Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 4
    Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 4

    Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 4. film

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

    Expatriate Estonians in Wollongong and the history of further education schools in Australia.

  • I am not a Tourist, I Live Here
    I am not a Tourist, I Live Here

    Part 1 and 2

    1988 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Urbla

    The events of the film directed by Peeter Urbla take place in precapitalist Tallinn, among people who try to find their hearth and home.

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