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Võidupäeva ootus Siberi Haida külas

2013 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Veskimees

2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Staar maakas

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv
The Measure of Man

Original title: Inimese mõõt

2010 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marianne Kõrver

Is the global environmental crisis concerning just our environment or is it also the crisis of our habits, expectations and values?

The relations between urbanizing people and natural environment become more and more problematic. Maybe the global environmental crisis is the crisis of the increasing process of urbanizing and the crisis of our habits, expectations and values? The documentary reflects the fear that our habitual world is going to end - the ever-pulsating streets of New York City; the ancient Hsasnkeyf in Turkey, with the history reaching back to the beginning of urban culture in old Mesopotamia; the fishermen villages in Tonle Sap Lake in the heart of Cambodia; and in an ultramodern urban district in Freiburg, South-Germany. Four places in ...
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At the End of the Day

Original title: Päeva lõpus

2009 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Maiju Ingman

Maiju Ingman's drama about loneliness, love, childhood memories and vanishing village life.

Peter returns to his parents' home in order to ask his brother Jakobi to help him out with his debts. Jakobi says no because he is against selling his grandpa's forest for money. Therefore, two worlds collapse - the village and the city, the vanishing and the blooming. As the story develops, the two brothers will step into each other's shoes, so to say, and re-evaluate their lives. Peter stays in the countryside and Jakobi decides to move to the city. Life in today's Estonia where the villages are about to disappear: small shops, bus routs and village schools are ...
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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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Clayhouse

Original title: Savikodu

2007 | Documentary | Director: Anu Aun
Jonathan from Australia

Original title: Jonathan Austraaliast

2007 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

Documentary directed by Sulev Keedus about the harsh daily life of people living in a small place called Mustjala, the island of Saaremaa; about the construction of a deep port at the coast of Saaremaa; and about the arrival of the bright white German cruise ship.

Residents of a bright green house in Mustjala, a small place in Saaremaa, tell about their hard life - most of them are constantly drunk. A few kilometres away, a great deep port is being constructed where a huge German cruise ship Lili Marleen lands, accompanied by fireworks and salute. German tourists can watch the performances of wedding games in Mustjala. However, construction of the port and the arrival of the white cruise ship won't change anything in the lives of local people. The residents of the green house will stay friends with beer and vodka. The documentary reveals a ...
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Forest Brothers in Front of the Bed

Original title: Metsavennad voodi ees

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Aivo Spitsonok

Aino Lepp has studied the phenomenon of bushwhacking and has driven around Estonia for years while searching for the graves of bushwhackers. Every time she finds one, it will stay in the old woman's heart.

In Estonian forests, there are thousands of graves of bushwhackers known only from legends. 77-year-old Aino Lepp from Pärnu county, Estonia, is disappointed in the way the state relates to the subject. She has been able to find and rebury about a few dozens of bushwhackers. Every single one of them finds a special place in the old woman's heart. Despite her scarce income, Aino has to drive around estonia in order to take care of the bushwhackers' graves that she has relocated. The more bushwhackers Aino reburies, the more difficult it will become for her since she gets older. ...
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Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

2001 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

Documentary about the possibilities to preserve the wooden architecture of a city in contemporary urban environment with the examples from Baltic states and Scandinavia. Filmmakers follow the renovation works of an old wooden house in Väike-Patarei Street, Kalamaja district in Tallinn. During one year, the house will be restored into the condition of a contemporary residential house. Both experts and city residents from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia etc. share their opionions about the future and sustainability of the subject of restoring wooden architecture. For decades, renovating wooden architecture was considered something unimportant.
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