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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Camino

Original title: Camino

2011 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Andres Sööt sets out to a 800-kilometre-long pilgrimage called Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain; the road will end in Finisterre - "the end of the world" on the coast of Atlantic Ocean.

Estonian filmmaker Andres Sööt walks the legendary pilgrimage road called Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) in Northern Spain amond thousands of other pilgrims from all corners of the world. The most popular route of the pilgrimage - the French Way - runs from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles on the Spanish side and then another 780km on to Santiago de Compostela. Like several other pilgrims, Sööt won't finish the 800-kilometre-long road at one stretch. In October 2004 he stops his journey in order to continue next spring and finish in Santiago de Compostela. ...
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A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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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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Ilo From Paris

Original title: Ilo Pariisist

2002 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Peep Puks

Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, is the guide to take the viewers around Paris.

Documentary by Peep Puks combines two stories: the destinies of a city and of a woman, the stories of Ilo Jaik-Riedberg and the city of Paris. Culture is the common language of Europe. While navigating in French cultural space we perceive its uniting power both for Estonians. Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, works a tourist guide in Paris and introduces the city in various languages. She first went to Paris as a war refugee in 1945. The Jaik family settled in Sweden, yet in 1971 Ilo moved to Paris and stayed there. Ilo brings Estonian tourists to the ...
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Elu pärast maailmalõppu

2001 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm
Jõulud Leninita

1994 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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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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Flame of Life

Original title: Elutuli

1987 | Documentary, Observation, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Peep Puks

Documentary by Peep Puks based on Estonian national identity and culture.

Documentary commissioned by the State Television and Radio Committee of USSR about Estonian history, present day and nature conservation. There is already the touch of the liberating atmosphere of the late 1980s. The documentary is thus free from ideological dictates and nomenclatural situations. Estonian-mindedness is expressed through the selection of topic, visual language as well as the soundtrack. Among the themes there are the national identity of Estonians, fellowship, local nature and culture. The message is slightly circumspect yet emphasizing Estonian mentality and nationality throughout the film.
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Fredi Tomps

1987 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peeter Tooming