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Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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30 Minutes of Silence

Original title: 30 minutit vaikust

2004 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ove Musting

Famous conductor returns to homeland in order to celebrate his 50th birthday, however, the power of money will prevail.

After having been away from his homeland for 30 years, a famous conductor returns in order to celebrate his 50th with a magnificent concert. However, the new sponsor of the orchestra has a different vision about the concert. The conductor wants to do his job well, but he is stressed and exhausted. Everything that he needs for concentrating is 30 seconds of silence in the middle of the chaos of sounds becoming louder and louder.
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Adventure High

2004 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Five young men - including the filmmaker - take a four-month break from their responsible adult lives to travel by bicycle from Mongolia to Nepal hoping to experience old-fashioned travel adventures. Their journey leads them through diverse landscapes and harsh conditions (the Gobi Desert where water and roads are equally difficult to find; the flooded dirt roads and landslides caused by heavy rain in the Himalayan mountains). They are exposed to diverse cultures and meet fascinating people (Mongolian nomads, Buddhist pilgrims, yak herders in the Himalayas). As relationship dynamics develop and change within the group, the five travelers very different ...
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The Man Who Opens Doors

Original title: Mees, kes avab uksi

2003 | Documentary | Director: Igor Ruus

Two blind men want to live a full life despite of their disability and help others.

Two men share the same destiny - intelligent and reserved Erik Lode and folksy man Avo Paap are both blind and try to cope with the life in the world as well as to help other people.
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Elf Disco

Original title: Päkapikudisko

2001 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Expedition by filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi to the hidden world of violence where the victims are children.

The children's world includes as much brutality as the world of adults. This is invisible violence since it often takes place as an intramural activity. Filmmakers Andres Maimik and Jaak Kilmi study the cases of the following kids: Kätlin, Märt, Marek and Indrek. All of them have experienced more violence in their own way than most of the kids of their age. The film brings the viewer to a sad journey to the hidden and traumatic zone in society. The filmmakers try to talk to the children, parents and teachers about the subjects that are often referred to only in ...
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Film Freaks

Original title: Ränk ja Kilk

2001 | Feature film, Short | Director: Olle Mirme

Short film directed by Olle Mirme about two film freaks who try to stage their screenplay in real life.

Positively charged short film about two film freaks who are forced to become geniuses. Despite the fact that the screenplay written by the two filmmakers Ränk and Kilk are rejected everywhere, the men won't even consider giving up. While throwing everything unnecessary overboard - the camera, film, actors and studio – the two start to stage their screenplay directly in real life. However, the co-citizens are unaware of their participation in a legendary film project, and thus a huge confusion is born out of Ränk and Kilk's artistic enterprise. The two realities collide - the one in a film and ...
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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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Jüri Arrak - 60

1997 | Amateur films | Director: Tõnu Aru
Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
Mission Impossible

1995 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar, Peeter Tammisto