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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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New Neighbours

Original title: Uued naabrid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

Two political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa.

In this new short documentary of Riho Västrik the political eras meet in the Estonian town of Tapa. Tapa is a railway junction 90 km from Tallinn. During the Soviet occupation it housed a Red Army training centre and airport. The population then was 12000 people, now it is half the size and half are Russian-speaking people. The neglected Soviet training centre is a stone’s throw from the NATO base where in spring 2017 allied forces moved in.
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full lenght feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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The Second Coming

Original title of the film: Teine tulemine

2008 | Feature film, Short | Director: Tanel Toom
The Penguin Parade

Original title: Pingviinide paraad

2002 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt, Julia Pihlak

A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still belived in happy solutions.

A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still belived in happy solutions.
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Kangelastegu on vene keeles Podvig

Podvig stands for heroic deed in Russian

1990 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Director Peeter Tooming has documented the story of those who fought in and for Estonia. The film has been made during the time when people were hoping and waiting for the Soviet army to leave Estonia.

It is the year of 1990. Soviet army in Estonia celebrates the memory of their heroes on the anniversary of victory of the Great Patriotic War, telling the story of Aleksandr Matrossov for whom a museum has been dedicated in Tondi district, Tallinn. During the times of Perestroika when everyone was waiting for the Red Army to leave the country, Tori Heritage Conservation Society is getting ready to invite all Estonian men who once fought for their fatherland (bushwhackers, legionaries). Who are the real heroes who have fought for Estonia?
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Oktoobridemonstratsioon Tallinnas

1983 | Newsreels, Newsreels 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
Oktoobriparaad Tallinnas

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreels 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust
Family 44

Title in Estonian: Perekond 44

1977 | Amateur film, Newsreel | Director:

The family chronicle of the activities of the married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu in 1976-1977. Communication regiment in Uppsala, speedboat rides, Heino with his model aircraft and moped.

The celebration of S1 communication regiment in Uppsala in September 1976: line-up, celebration march, brass orchestra, demonstration of military machines, performance of the service dogs, helicopters and tanks in operation, battlefield and helping the injured, parachute jumping. The Nõu family's speedboat with a new cover. The garden in Askvägen and Helga Nõu walking the dog. Heino Nõu is flying a model aircraft on the snowy field of Sunnersta in March 1977. Laine goes on a flight to Rhodos from the Arlanda airport at the end of June and returns in two weeks. Enn and Helga with Liia go to the ...
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Maipühad

1975 | Newsreels, Newsreels 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov