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Headwind Hall

Original title: Vastutuulesaal

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Priit Valkna
The Sound of the Conductor

Original title: Dirigendi kõla

2007 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa, Helle Karis

Portrait documentary about Eri Klas, a legendary Estonian musician, through his creative and private life.

Eri Klas is inspired by the feeling of joy in his life - joy for his work, friends, colleagues, but most of all - for his family and homeland. See rõõm on kaasakiskuv ja ammendamatu, hoolimata sellest, et tema saatus pole olnud pilvitu. Ajaloo käik ja isiklikud kaotused, töötempo ja rahvusvaheline tuntus võivad inimese sisemises muusikas tekitada ebakõlasid. Eri Klasi kõla on jäänud puhtaks.
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Arnold Rüütel. Unfinished sentence

Original title: Arnold Rüütel. Lõpetamata lause

2006 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

The documentary was finished before the presidential election in 2007; it opposes the speeches and interviews held by Arnold Rüütel during the Soviet era with the ones held during the period of Estonia regaining its independence.

24th Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union in Moscow; Baltic Chain Tour; Estonian Song Celebration in 1985 in Tallinn; celebrating the 70th anniversary of October Revolution; The Song of Freedom 1991 - these are just a few episodes from the archive-based documentary that follows Arnold Rüütel's activities during the period of 1971-1992. This era included the new wave of Russification policies, perestroika and Estonia regaining its independence. In order to stay alive and be successful during the times one had to be flexible and adaptable.
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Estonia

2006 | Documentary | Director: Hannes Lintrop, Renita Lintrop

History documentary by Hannes and Renita Lintrop about the 100th anniversary of Estonia Theatre and its building where the stories of Estonian nationhood and culture are intertwined.

Estonia Theatre combines Estonian national self-awareness and the history of its culture and nationhood. The building of the opera theatre is five years older than the first Republic of Estonia and it has hosted social, cultural and political events that give an overview of the story of development of Estonian state and nation throughout the century. Who knows - maybe the Republic of Estonia would not exist at all without the theatre.
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Mikk

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat, Peeter Brambat

Portrait documentary about Mikk Mikiver, a theatre director and an actor.

Documentary by Rein Raamat opens up the life and work of Mikk Mikiver, a legend in Estonian theatre history, a theatre director and an actor. The film is based on the last interview taken with the actor in his home in Võsu, Estonia. Even when he was already sick, Mikk Mikiver dreamed of returning to theatre, to continue working as a stage director. Both his personal and professional life has been always public; yet, as a human being he remained a big secret. His family members, colleagues and friends - many of them are well-known in Estonian history of culture ...
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The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Original title: Eestlased Kremlis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

The activities of the Estonian representatives at the Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...
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The Singing Revolution

Original title: Laulev revolutsioon

2006 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty, James Tusty

American film directors James Trusty and Maureen Castle Tusty regard Estonian Singing Revolution as the turning point of European history.

Compendious treatment about Estonian contemporary history and the SInging Revolution. Despite the fact that the documentary focuses on the process of Estonia regaining its independence in 1987-1991, the film also looks back to occupation of Estonia and the decades that followed the event. Lots of archival film materials have been used. We can see people who participated in the events and influenced the course of these events - politicians, conductors of song festivals, dissidents and regular citizens. The filmmakers emphasize the tradition of song festivals and the unique experience of a nation to sing themselves into freedom without violence. Documentary ...
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Mare Vint

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anri Rulkov

Mare Vint, an acknowledged graphic and drawing artist, opens up the background of her sensitive artwork related to her personal exhibition "Selected views".

Mare Vint (b. 1942) discovered her artist style, a highly refined way of drawing, already in the year of 1970. Vint has depicted nature and parks with the aesthetic quality and slightly metaphysical moods. The artist regularly exhibits her litographs, serigraphs, works made with indian ink and coloured pencils both in Estonia and abroad. Her works belong to the collections of several art museums all over the world. The documentary depicts Mare Vint before and after the opening of her personal exhibition "Selected views" (2004) when the artist is working with her drawings and commenting on her creative process.
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Children of the Singing Revolution

Original title: Kasvamise aeg

2004 | Documentary | Director: Arvo Iho

Estonian Television Childrens' Choir grows up together with the Republic of Estonia.

Filmmakers are searching for the similarties between the young people and a young state, they both grow up. The film tells about the members of the girls's choir of Estonian Television who started to sing together at a very young age in a state that was regaining its independence also with the support of singing at that time. The film documents the period of 1990-2004, starting from the time of the so-called Singing Revolution and Estonia regaining its independence until the joining the European Union. Filmmakers follow the process of growing up of the girls during an era full of ...
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A Reporter

Original title: Reporter

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Karol Ansip