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  • Old Man Cartoon Movie
    Old Man Cartoon Movie

    Original title: Vanamehe Film

    2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

    This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.

  • The End of Milk
    The End of Milk

    Original title: Piimariik

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur-Paul Põldma

    The owner of a small dairy farm holds old-fashion cow keeping in esteem and goes to sell milk himself.

  • 91 kilometers. Chronicle of Estonia 2009
    91 kilometers. Chronicle of Estonia 2009

    Original title: 91 kilomeetrit. Eestimaa Kroonika 2009

    2010 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Paakspuu

    “91 KM” tells the stories of four different people sharing one thing – they all live 91 km away from Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. In a peaceful manner, “91 KM” pays homage to the simple working man and shows our homeland through fear and mercy, worries and joy.

  • This Lovely, Nice Polled Cattle
    This Lovely, Nice Polled Cattle

    Original title: Ilus armas nudi

    2000 | Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus

    Estonian polled livestock is a part of the cultural heritage of Estonian country and its nation - it is a similar symbol for Estonia as Estonian horse, runic verse, wooded meadow or coastal pasture.

  • Talupidaja Jaan Kaalma
    Talupidaja Jaan Kaalma

    1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško

  • Breeding of the Estonian black-and white cow
    Breeding of the Estonian black-and white cow

    Original title: Eesti mustakirju karja aretus

    1989 | Documentary, Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Leo Ilves

    Documentary about the history and present day of breeding Estonian black-and-white cattle.

  • Cogito, ergo sum
    Cogito, ergo sum

    Original title: Cogito, ergo sum

    1989 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

    Instead of joining the collective farm, Karl Peterson chose threats, penalties, deportation and prison as he wanted to live as a free man in a free country.

  • Elu ilma…
    Elu ilma…

    1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mark Soosaar

  • Meie Uduvere
    Meie Uduvere

    1987 | Documentary | Director: Sulev Nõmmik

  • Lüpsja Maria Graverson
    Lüpsja Maria Graverson

    1986 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peeter Tooming

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