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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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Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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A Living Force

Original title: Elav jõud

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Andres Maimik

Three men, three different stories about work and being lazy, dignity and despair, struggle for existence and self-pity in a ruthless society of success.

The humoristic documentary follows the struggle of three men, very different in their outlook on life: Georg – a loser, Peeter – an intellectual and Arto – a yuppie, all of them living in a society built on success and power. This is a film about work, indolence, dignity and despair.
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Independence Day

Original title: Eesti lood. Iseseisvuspäev

2003 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Students film | Director: Hanna Šein

Life of four young persons with different social background in today's Estonia, right before the local independence day, February 24, 2003.

The documentary observes the lives of four young Estonians in their twenties who have different backgrounds and living conditions. The film opposes the new generation of urban youth in Tallinn and the young people of the same age living in smaller towns in Estonia. What do the following people think, feel and want - Rauno who works as a supplier in a small town; Rainer who works as a head of department at a supermarket in Tallinn; Brett, a student at the University of Tartu; and young farmer Andres. How different are their attitudes towards their lives, Estonia and the ...
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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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Iron Rose Blossoms

Original title: Raudroosiõied

2001 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Karol Ansip
But the Goats?

Original title: Aga kitsed?

1998 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Debut documentary by Liivo Niglas about a French family growing goats and making goat cheese.

The Delabouglise family in France grows goats and makes goat cheese. This is not that difficult thing to do for living, however, one has to have time and will to do it. Farmer Etienne goes to sell goat cheese at the local market. Children can come to the farm during their summer holidays in order to get acquainted to country life. All this is not profitable and the family discusses on future options.
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Goat Village

Original title: Kitseküla

1993 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary directed by Peeter Tooming about a small village called Kitseküla near Aseri where the residents have founded small homes with a gardening patch.

Kitseküla is a small place near Aseri, a small industrial town in Estonia, where during the decades representatives of various nationalities have on their own initiative founded households for gardening and animal keeping. Kitseküla is a separate community near and inside of Aseri. Even if is no rural municipality government, Aseri has its own leaders, scapegoats, exemplary men and the poor ones. People play accordion and zither there, they listen to Tallinn and Moscow radio stations, they celebrate weddings. Due to restoration of private ownership a problem has emerged: when the former owner of the properties and lands of Kitseküla ...
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So long, Dracula!

Title in Estonian: Isake Dracula Eesti variant

1993 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

Anatomy of totalitarism. Sarcastic retrospect to the darkest era in Estonian history during 20th century.

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his era when poets wrote him odes and poems but the bushwhackers sang: " ... and our aim is to kill Stalin". From the tribunes, Stalin was addressed as "the great friend of Estonian nation", nevertheless, for the majority of Estonian Stalin's name embodied the violence and lies that hit Estonia. This influenced all areas of life and no-one was left untouched by the terror. The documentary breakrs the myth about the joint resistance of Estonian nation to the foreign power and gives the warning that there is the possibility that similar things could happen again.
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Riigivanem I

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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