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  • Kratt
    Kratt

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rasmus Merivoo

    Two city kids, zero smartphones, one village. When left at Granny’s the siblings find an instruction on how to build a devilish creature. The only missing puzzle is one soul...

  • Celebration
    Celebration

    Original title: Prazdnik

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

    For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

  • Hold Onto Me
    Hold Onto Me

    Original title: Ära mind lahti lase

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Ingrid Hübscher, Sigrid Reede

    Conductor Elo Tammsalu-Schmitz left Estonia 20 years ago because of love. As she prepares to take the European Choir of Estonians to the Estonian national Song Celebration, her German husband Hartmut also needs to learn the songs.

  • Kodumaa karjed
    Kodumaa karjed

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

    Who's the man waving the flag?

  • Mountains That Were Not There
    Mountains That Were Not There

    Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

    A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

  • Asta ja Georg
    Asta ja Georg

    2007 | Documentary, Making of | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

  • Como cierva sedienta
    Como cierva sedienta

    1999 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

    The concert recording of composer Arvo Pärt's musical work "Como cierva sedienta" in Estonia Concert Hall.

  • Eesti Kongress
    Eesti Kongress

    1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ants Vill

  • Eesti Kongressi II istungjärk
    Eesti Kongressi II istungjärk

    1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek

  • Estonian National Male Choir concert in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University (1)
    Estonian National Male Choir concert in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University (1)

    Title in Estonian: RAM Toronto Ülikooli saalis 1/3

    1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Estonian National Male Choir is preforming for the first time to the foreign Estonian audience in Canada, in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University in spring 1989.

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