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For a Better Life

Original title: Parema elu nimel

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Sildvee

Documentary by Märt Sildvee opens up the themes of antidepressants and depression as well as studies the myths related to the disease and its treatment.

Admitting depression as an illness is quite a new phenomenon in our country. Causes of depression can be either social, psychological or biological - however, depression is often caused by the concurrence of all of them. Five persons open-mindedly tell about their illness, how they went to a doctor and what happened next. The documentary studies causes of social stress as well as living under the influence of medications. Is it really so that antidepressants, introduced as lifestyle medications, lead us out from crises, recover our ability to work, give us back energy and provide us satisfactory daily life?
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Palju õnne!

2004 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
Leida

2001 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Jürisson
Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Saared

1995 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Andres Sööt
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Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto 1/2

Original title: Balti nüüdiskunsti näitus Torontos 1/2

1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

The first part of the exhibition introducing contemporary art in the Baltic States, held in John B. Aird gallery, Toronto. Close-up of Norton Dodge, art collector in the United States of America.

Art collector Norton Dodge in USA is talking (simultaneous translation) about his art collection at the art exhibition "Baltics Art During the Brezhnev Era" (1992) in Toronto. He was particularly interested in the contemporary unofficial art in the Soviet Union which he had started to collect already a few decades ago. Norton Dodge introduces the background information of the exhibition and talks about his professional career. Details of the artwork presented at the exhibition. The interviewer announces that Mr. Dodge will donate his art collection to Rutgers University in New Jersey. The filmed material has been documented for a CBC ...
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Baltic uprising, interviews

Original title: Balti riikide iseseisvuse saavutamise teemalised intervjuud 1991

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interviews in English for TV news. Interview with Tõnu Parming, newspaper editor and politician.

Interviews in English held for TV news. The revolt of 1956 in Hungary is being compared with the fight for freedom in the Baltic States in 1991. After the interview the TV reporter talks about the importance of reflecting political events on TV with the interviewee. Interview with Tõnu Parming, a newspaper journalist and a politician. Again, parallels are made with the revolt in Hungary, at the same time, essential differences are being emphasized.
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Lithuanianʹs Community Information Bureau in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna infobüroo

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Forms are being filled in at the Lithuanian Community Information Bureau in Toronto, also operational information about the tragic events in Vilnius in 1991 is given.

The Lithuanian Community Information Bureau looks busy. People are filling in forms and giving signatures. Information about the events in Vilnius on January 1991 is being collected and mediated both via phone and fax. Worker at the information bureau gives an interview to the news channel CBC News (synchronized). The interviewee tells about the Soviet armed agression against the protesters in Vilnius. Western world should definitely react to the efforts of the Baltic states for regaining their independence. The interviewee believes that Mikhail Gorbachev has lost control over the events taking place in the Soviet Union.
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Mass of Lithuanian Community in Toronto 1/2

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna missa 1/2

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Church service of expatriate Lithuanians in Canada for supporting the fight for independence in Lithuania.

Expatriate Lithuanians in Canada express solidarity towards the fight for freedom in their homeland Lithuania with the mass that takes place in the Church of Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Toronto. People are gathering in the church, holding lit candles, national flags are brought in, Lithuanian national anthem and other Lithuanian songs are being sung with the accompaniment of the church organ. There is a solemn atmosphere in the church, some people have tears in their eyes. The priest of the Catholic Church is talking, then everyone prays. Richard Johnson, the representative of Lithuanian community in Canada, gives ...
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