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Your name shall be Israel

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
Beyond the Water

Original title: Teisel pool vett

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Liia Sakkos
Estonian Prison

Original title: Eesti vangla

2003 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The main subject of the history documentary is Patarei Prison - a unique architectural and historical building.

Tower, Bastille, Sing-Sing, Butyrka are all ominous buildings with rich history. The first Republic of Estonia that was established in February 1918 founded a central prison (that people started to call simply "Patarei") in the buildings of a former cannon battery of a sea fortress. During various eras both criminals and visionaries have been imprisoned here. Recollections of those who have been prisoners due to their worldview include the pieces of Estonian and European history in 20th century.
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Röövel ööbik

2003 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Ralf Siig
The Trivia of Life

Original title: Elu pisiasjad

2003 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Documentary by Dorian Supin about a man at the end of his/her days, about dignified aging, life in Paunküla nursing home; about the memories, dreams and daily life of the elderly residents.

Life in Paunküla nursing home follows its daily pattern. Yet, every routine activity is a special event for the elderly residents: waking up in the morning, having meals, taking medicines. Daily routine is brightened up by social gatherings, birthdays, and, of course, by Christmas. The elderly women, each of them being a personality, are living now in a forgotten world and their close ones are replaced by caretakers, nurses and doctors. Those who still remember tell about their childhood; those who don't are slipping away to the world unattainable for others. The happiness of the end of one's days lies ...
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Two-Timing

Original title: Kaksikelu

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Raimo Jõerand

Short film directed by young documentalist Raimo Jõerand, telling about the marital relationships and playing with paradoxes.

When their marriage becomes a routine, a husband and a wife have a tradition to act as lovers who have not seen each other for a long time. So far, this masquerade has been refreshing and safe but now it is going too far and becomes fatally dangerous. The wife wants to get his husband killed, but when she calls for an assassin, it turns out that the assassin will be her own husband who secretly works as one. Does such situation have solutions?
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His Majesty`s Warship

Original title of the film: Tema Majesteedi sõjalaev

2001 | Documentary | Director: Indrek Kangur

The film is dedicated to the sailors who fought in the Estonian War of Independence (start title). Actions of the British Royal Naval squadron in the Gulf of Finland in years of the Estonian War of Independence and story of perishing of the minesweeper sloop HMS Myrtle.

His Majesty´s Warship talks about The Estonian War of Independence and the activities of the British Royal Navy in the Gulf of Finland during the war years 1918-1919. The film uses the letters that a British sailor wrote home to his wife from battle. Russian historian Vitali Pirogov and British historian Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum in London give interviews from the forts and harbor of Kronstadt. Charman says: „We wanted to re-establish democratic rule in Russia. Thus, we also had to deal with Estonians who were fighting for their independence.“ This is fairly open confession, asi ...
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Masing`s Landscape. Part I

Original title: Masingu maastikud: Kitsas rada keset metsi

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

The first part of the enlightening film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes" directed by Vallo Kepp - documentary that has been dedicated to Uku Masing's - the scholar, poet and original culture philosopher - childhood years and the period of development in his home village in Rapla county, Estonia.

Uku Masing (11.08.1909-25.04.1985, born in Raikküla parish, Lipa village) was a theologician, Orientalist, philosopher, poet, folklorist and ethnologist. The residents of Masing's home village recall their memories about Uku Masing and his family; the documentary also reflects the events that took place during celebrating Masing's 90th anniversary in Estonia.
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Self-Portrait with Mother

Original title: Autoportree emaga

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Edvard Oja

Autobiographical documentary about Edvard Oja's fight with alcoholism.

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always supported by his mother who has provided unconditional love for her son in every situation. Mother is the only one in the documentary who won't ennoble the environment suffering from alcoholism. Yet, her son has no strength to struggle out of his tough situation. Is it possible after all that he will be cured?
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The Philosopher

Original title: Inimeste lemmik

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Piller

Documentary shows the daily life of philosopher Arnold von Keyserling and his wife Wilhelmine in Vienna - life full of astrology, Eastern philosophy, shamanism and mysticism.

Meelis Piller follows the daily life of philosopher Arnold von Keyserling and his wife Wilhelmine in Vienna. Their life is full of astrology, magic of numbers and geometry, Eastern philosophy, shamanism and mysticism. Arnold's father Earl Hermann Alexander von Keyserling was born and lived in Estonia. Arnold's life is in a way a symbol of contemporary society - noblemen who used to reside in luxurious castles are now pressed to live into one-bedroom apartments. Despite everything Arnold and Wilhelmine Keyserling have managed to remain the same people as they were born. Even if a bit tired they work in a ...
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