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Velosophy

Original title: Velosoofid

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaan Tootsen
Cabaret

Original title: Kabaree

2012 | Documentary | Director: Gerda Kordemets

The 11th grade pupils of Saaremaa Grammar School give the special cabaret performance at the end of every year held already for the 23th times.

For already the 23th time in a row, the eleventh graders of Saaremaa Grammar School stage a big cabaret performance right before the Christmas that will also be later performed outside the school. Passionate documentary about the everyday life of Saaremaa Grammar School during the times of preparations for the Cabaret in 2011. The 23-year-old tradition. Life on the stage and offstage. Sweat, tears, blood. Falling in love and breakups. Indignation and victories. All this has to stay in a rehearsal room since the performance must be perfect. Every day, the Cabaret is performed by new eleventh graders, expressing the ...
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Man with the Top Hat

Original title: Mees torukübaraga

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Riho Västrik

Portrait documentary by Riho Västrik about Valeri Kirss, organizer of Estonian beauty contests, at the height of his glory days.

Portrait documentary about Valeri Kirss - the organizer of beauty contests, a stubborn man who restored the tradition of beauty contests and who managed to hold around ten annual beauty contests in Estonia since 1992. Filmmakers follow the enthusiastic and hyperactive man during the times he was at the peak of his glory when Estonians knew exactly who the last Miss Estonia was. The recorded materials that have been unused for more than a decade have acquired extra value for making the colourful personal story as well as a funny retrospective describing the social life in Estonia during the turn ...
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Potato Republic

Original title: Kartuli Wabariik

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Kätlin Kaganovitš

Documentary about Tarmo Ladva, president of Potato Republic to be established in Laanemetsa village in Valga county, Estonia, and about the process of putting his expansive ideas into practice.

Artist and event organizer Tarmo Ladva wants to achieve his goal to establish Potato Republic in Laanemetsa village, Taheva parish that is located in a peripheral region of Estonia. Potato Republic would serve as a museum to introduce potato as the symbol of Estonian food and to remember history. His high-flown ideas about creating a bath cinema and heritage theatre, however, get stuck due to financial difficulties and general scepticism. The man full of enthusiasm won't give up and gives it another try.
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The Flower of Sun

Original title: Päikeselill

2011 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Jaanis Valk

Piet Boerefijn is a Dutchman who has founded Estonian Food Bank. His thinks his duty is to make society a more rightful and friendlier place.

Dutchman Piet Boerefijn who lives in Estonia has founded Estonian Food Bank that provides food for those in need - indigent families with many children, single parents, unemployed, people in need of help and in trouble. Piet's human essence is based on the feeling of justice, empathy and helpfulness. For his socially compassionate and judicious work, Piet has received orders both from the President of the Republic of Estonia and the Queen of the Netherlands. Piet has faced the reality of local life in every social layer. He has met top politicians as well as the poorest people in need; ...
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The New World

Original title: Uus maailm

2011 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

Jaan Tootseni dokfilm jälgib ühe idealistliku liikumise, Uue Maailma Seltsi sündi, elu ja valu viie aasta jooksul.

Anatomy of a revolution: this is the story about people, relationships and a big change. The New World is a district in Tallinn where there is a group of young active people - some consider them noisy roisterers, some think that they are some gang of hippies, and some take them as heroes. The members of the New World Society started as an anarchistic group of urban guerrillas whose mission was to fight for healthier and more car-free environment, causing issues of public order. However, at some point their efforts were crowned with appreciation, attention and financial support. What will ...
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Doctor Grossmann's Land of the Gods

Original title: Doktor Grossmanni jumalate maa

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Galina Grossmann is an exceptional woman who paints Jesus, composes an opera about Jesus and performs the musical work with the influences of Estonian folklore to the residents of a retirement home.

Galina Grossmann has the Doctoral degree in biological sciences, she is an inventor and health adviser - for instance, she has invented a unique slimming method called Lipolitic. Besides, Galina Grossmann is a composer, poet, singer, dancer and a painter. In the summer of 2008, her newest musical work "Land of the Gods" premiered in Munalaskme nursing home. Her work tells the story about Jesus Christ who survived on the cross and who was taken to the Land of Gods - Estonia - in a fancy horse carriage by Estonian spirits. Kaamera jälgib „Jumalate maa” sünnilugu alates esimestest helidest ja ...
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The Gummybear

Original title: Kummikaru

2009 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Indrek Simm
BAM – Railroad to Nowhere

Original title: BAM

2008 | Documentary | Director: Jouni Hiltunen

Documentary by Finnish director Jouni Hiltunen about the enthusiasm, hopes and reality of railway constructors in Baikal-Amur district.

In 1974, Leonid Brezhnev, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of USSR, called for the Soviet youth to construct the 3500-kilometre-long arterial railway including a city and 200 stations in Baikal-Amur district, Russia (BAM) in order to use the immense amount of mineral resources of the area. Thousands of young people, including Estonians, went to work in Siberia, while believing in Brezhnev's idea. The railway was being constructed simultaneously from both ends and the top event was planned to be when the ends would finally meet. Brezhnev died in 1982 and BAM was not even close to completion. It was ...
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Franka

Original title: Franka

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Siiri Timmerman

Frantšeska Vakkum, project manager at Kuressaare Open Youth Center, deals with problematic young people and wants to make the world a better place while helping children.

Frantšeska Vakkum is a project manager at Kuressaare Open Youth Center. Her daily duties include working with problematic children. Franka is called the Mother of young people in Kuressaare; Franka herself thinks she is the adult friend for the children. One thing is absolutely clear for Franka - only those can work with youth who have the sense of mission. She never lost faith in the fact that she could understand and help children in order to make the world a better place.
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