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Unt´s hour

Original title: Unditund

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed ...
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Ballet Master

Original title: Balletmeister

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ruti Murusalu

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.

"Ballet Master", a documentary full of dancing, is a journey through the creative world of the internationally recognized choreographer Mai Murdmaa. Murdmaa is our guide and helps us see dancing as a medium for creating art. "Ballet Master" visualizes choreography but mostly gives it a meaning. Murdmaa's creative work and private life are inseparable. One ballet master, two different forms of society. One art - sacral, mystical, erotic, aesthetic - but so many difficult aspects before the creation can reach the audience.
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Collector

Original title: Koguja

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

Documentary directed by Mati Põldre tells about Olaf Esna - a bibliophile and antiquary in Pärnu.

Olaf Esna is an ardent book lover and keen on his home town Pärnu. He knows local history and people in detail. During the last decades Esna has been running a second-hand book shop. But he is not a regular salesman. Olaf Esna's passion is to collect and to deliver his valuable stuff to the right people. Many come around just for advice but some find hidden treasures, may it be ghost stories as a word of mouth or old time newspaper serials from the shelf. Even a known world traveler would enter as a pilgrim. In 2011 Olaf Esna was awarded Order of the White Star 5th ...
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Heino Eller - Quinta Essentia

Original title: Heino Eller. Quinta Essentia

2013 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.

The biographical documentary about the renowned composer and lecturer Heino Eller also serves as a part of cultural history of Estonia. While following the story, we experience the most dramatic and cheerful moments of his life and Estonian history.
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Paper Town

Original title: Paberist linn

2013 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Gentlemen with grand ideas look into the past and future of Narva: Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard in a degrading town hall; Mats Gabrielsson wants to turn Narva into a new Hong Kong in the future.

Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard. Mats is designing the future of it, and knocks down old red brick buildings. They both have love for the town. Russia took over Narva from Sweden in the Great Northern War in 1704. Since then, the rule has been passed over six times. Not only on the border of Estonia and Russia, Narva is also on the cusp of the past and the future. This affectionate film brings the town to life in archive material, in models and architects’ sketches.
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Study Hard

Original title in Latvian "Mācies cītīgi"

2013 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kaspars Sēlis

Student Kaspars Sēlis’ bachelor thesis ’’Study Hard’’ is a documentary program about the reasons that affect students choices after secondary school.

A student takes a look back on his decision whether to study in university or not. He goes on a quest to visit his former schoolmates to see whether they have made the right choices after secondary school, and what where the reason why they have done so.
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Baskin

Original title: Baskin

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Portrait documentary about actor and theatre director Eino Baskin.

A portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audiences (especially women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by some and cursed by others, and imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Baskin has built two theatres from the scratch. After the second stroke he was in a coma for 47 days but returned. A rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin’s life.
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Playing Pärt

Original title: Mängime Pärti

2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre.

In 2011 the Old Town Music School of Collegium Educationis Revaliae and the International Arvo Pärt Centre together staged a student concert of works by Arvo Pärt in Tallinn`s Swedish St Michael`s Church. The duble DVD package is a recording of the concert and the rehearsals.
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Rehearsing Pärt

Title in Estonian: Proovime Pärti

2012 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre. This is a DVD recording of the rehearsals for the concert.

Unique documentary about Arvo Pärt in the role of a pedagogue while making music together with the students of the Old Town Educational College and tutoring them before the upcoming concert of Arvo Pärt's music. Pärt encourages the young musicians to improvise themselves, gives his advice and mild recommendations in order to fine tune the performances and to find better harmonies. Pärt also tells stories and often illustrates his advices with playing the piano. The documentary shows an emotional creative process where dedicated young people try to perform a diverse choice of Arvo Pärt's music – beginning from the simple children's ...
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Sinine kõrb

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ruti Murusalu