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Big City Beat

Original title: Suurlinna biit

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli

A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.

Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.
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Journey to the Maggot Feeder

Original title: Teekond Ussinuumajani

2015 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Priit Tender
Out of Fashion

Original title: Moest väljas

2015 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Lennart Laberenz
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Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis

Original title: Dora Gordine: Ars gratia artis

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annaleena Piel Linna

Estonian-British documentary about Dora Gordine (1895-1991), a jewish young woman who grew up in Tallinn, Estonia, and became an internationally renowned sculptor, designer and artistocrat loved by high society.

In her hayday, Dora Gordine was considered to be one of the most talented sculptors in the world. Gordine was born in Libau, Latvia; grew up and studied sculpture in Tallinn, Estonia. While rising to fame in Paris, France via the Far East, she finally settled in London where her steady rise continued well beyond her contemporaries. Thanks to the marriage with the son of an Earl, Gordine managed to push her way to the top of the British aristocracy as one of her statues was opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself in 1963. The documentary focuses on discovering and ...
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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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Stags

Original title: Täkutallinn

2006 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Marianne Ostrat
Visitors from the sky

Original title: Külalised

2002 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rein Kotov, Piret Tibbo-Hudgins

Documentary about the life and mission of the foreign espionage agents of Estonian origin in the Soviet Estonia in 1950s.

After the Second World War, Western intelligence decided to become more active in the Baltic states. At the same time, Moscow came up with the plan to take over Western intelligence service completely. British, Swedish and American intelligence sent refugee agents to the Baltic states - their first contact in the homeland was a KGB special squad consisting of staged bushwhackers. The camouflage turned out to be perfect and the game lasted for years. Only a few ones stayed alive and returned back to the West. They changed their names, forgot their homeland and relatives and disappeared. They had to ...
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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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Unfinished Story of the Estonia Ferry Disaster

Original title: Lõputu lugu Estoniast

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

Original title: Siis sai õhtu ja sai hommik

1989 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Film portrait of the composer Arvo Pärt.

I do not create music, it simply exists in the world without a composer. every sculpture is there, in the rock, and the sculptor just releases it from the stone. It`s the same with music; look here, I take the skin off this potato, the musician then cooks it and puts it on the table, but it was God who let it grow - explains Arvo Pärt himself.
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