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Burnt Mistakes

Original title in Estonian: Külm on

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Martti Helde

Young man Aggivald is living in suburban boiler-house what is fueled by Books, books without endings. The biggest passion for the boy is to write a new ending for each book. Aggivald doesn't know that his family has a story it's own, story what reach to the soviet time and has no ending either.
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Disco and Atomic War

Original title: Disko ja tuumasõda

2009 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Playful documentary by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma about the development of their generation during the Soviet era where the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture and the Finnish Television was the window to the world of dreams.

The playful documentary tells the story about a strange war of information in Estonian SSR during the 1980s when the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture. And the heroes won. Western pop culture played extremely important part in developing the world view of the Soviet youth - today this may seem rather weird. Finnish Television, that was visible only for people living in Northern Estonia, was the only window to the world of dreams and that was out of reach for the authorities to be banned. The documentary combines political action with fictional stories based on the memories ...
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Jaanus with two heads

Original title: Kahe peaga Jaanus

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Documentary by Rein Raamat about Jaan Vares, acknowledged Estonian sculptor and a long-time rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

During thirty years, sculptor Jaan Vares (1927) formed and polished the Estonian State Art Institute into a well-functioning mechanism where under the guidance of best lecturers and teachers several generations of Estonian artists emerged. Despite the strict dictates and prohibitions of the Soviet era, Vares was wise enough to make advantage of these orientations in order to develop Estonian art and to complete his life's work. In addition, he was able to create a whole gallery of interesting portrait sculptures placed in his studio in Merivälja. The documentary introduces Jaan Vares's life and work as well as describes his diverse ...
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Siima Škopi muinasjutuline maailm

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat
Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov

Original title: Dialoogid. Helilooja Valentin Silvestrov

2008 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of finest composers of his generation.

Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of the finest composers of his generation. Music is the meaning of life for him. Music that keeps flowing out of him. If music remains concealed, this would simply suffocate him.
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The Kings of the Time

Original title: Aja meistrid

2008 | Documentary, Portrait, Animation, Puppet | Director: Mait Laas

Documentary with the elements of animation directed by Mait Laas about the founders of Eesti Nukufilm, film directors Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars.

The fast-paced humorous story has recorded the two grand masters of Estonian puppet cartoon - Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007) and Heino Pars (1925). The story of their life and work has been brought us through the excerpts of newsreels, old photographs, puppet animations and recollections of their contemporaries. Having played with puppets for about 30 years, Tuganov and Pars are being animated as puppets themselves - only by the new generations of animation filmmakers.
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The Man with green backpack

Original title in Estonian: Rohelise seljakotiga mees

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Raigo Saariste

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit, completed as a group work of film students.

An allegorical story about the conflict between power and spirit. Power rules through fear, spirit threatens power by striving for freedom. A man with a backpack arrives in the waiting room of the railway station and starts reading poems in a loud voice, but the officials of the station cannot allow such disorder.
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Georg

Original title: Georg

2007 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Peeter Simm

The drama directed by Peeter Simm tells the story about the life of Georg Ots - one of the most well-known Estonian opera singers of all times. The screenplay by Mati Põldre and Aleksandr Borodyanski is based on the memoirs of Asta Ots.

The life of Georg Ots (1920-1975), the most well-known Estonian opera singer, was full of changes and difficulties. He started with the career of an engineer; later during the times of war he found himself as a musician in Yaroslavl. Georg Ots's extraordinary talent and dedication made him a nationwide star in the whole Soviet Union; however, there are two sides of every coin. It is a very personal story about love and marriage, celebrity and jealousy, self-realization and self-destruction.
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Greetings from Soviet Estonia!

Original title: Tervitusi Nõukogude Eestist!

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
Inge Tederi maailm

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Inge Teder, the legendary head of the Art Museum of Estonia.

Art historian Inge Teder (1931-2015) was the head of the Art Museum of Estonia for twenty five years. She started this job in mid-1960s that was a complicated period both for the society as well as for the art museum. Several classic artists from the first Republic of Estonia, especially art by expatriate Estonians, was inadvisable back then. The influences of formalism were seen in young artists' work at that time. As a clever diplomatist, Inga Teder could skilfully navigate the corridors of power and most of the times she got what she wanted. During Teder's leadership, the number of artwork ...
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