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Old Man Cartoon Movie

Original title: Vanamehe Film

2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.
Vastuvõtt

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets
Dearest Sister

Original title in Lao: Nong Hak

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mattie Do

A Lao village girl’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence.

Nok packs her sparse belongings, and after an argument with her fiancé, she boards an overnight bus out of her rural village for the Lao capital of Vientiane. She’s never seen so many people, so much traffic and activity. She’s met at the station by Jakob, the Estonian husband of her distant cousin Ana, who only breaks from an overseas phone call discussing his NGO’s legal problems long enough to confirm that the girl speaks no English. Nok tentatively climbs into the back seat of Jakob’s SUV. Jakob settles Nok into the guest room of an expansive Western home, and in ...
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Together, yet Apart

Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

Ukraine is at war. Estonia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine since 2014, a year later also development aid was added. How will the aid reach those in need and whose condition will improve due to the aid? How do the local people live in Luhansk Oblast? How do the national refugees live?
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Islam Eestis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Tõnu Virve
Reet Kudu and Vladimir Gestkoff in Askvägen, 1989

Title in Estonian: Reet Kudu ja Vladimir Gestkoff Askvägenil 1989

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Reet Kudu and French journalist Vladimir Gestkoff in Askvägen on April 19, 1989.

Reet Kudu introduces Vladimir Gestkoff, a French journalist living in Paris, as a man who made programmes about Russia already when it was almost impossible to achieve. Vladimir Gestkoff talks about himself: he has published five books, he is a lecturer of philosophy. Reet Kudu reads out an excerpt from the article published in magazine "Looming" where also writer Helga Nõu is being characterized. At Reet's request, Vladimir speaks also in French. The recording for the Estonian radio takes places in the home of the Nõu family in Askvägen on April 19, 1989.
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Author of a folk song

Title in Estonian: Rahvalaulu autor

1981 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

Documentary about Estonian Nikolai Kool, the author of the lyrics of the folk song "Far away behind the river".

Vitali Gorbunov, cameraman of film chronicles and documentaries, attemps to find out if Estonian Nikolai Kool is the author of the folk song lyrics "Far away behind the river".
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Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

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