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  • Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance
    Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

    Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

    A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

  • Bigger Than Sports
    Bigger Than Sports

    Original title: Suurem kui sport

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kerttu Soans

    Uncompromising "Crazy Coach" Arvi Aavik is creating the Estonian women's wrestling team out of a few capable girls.

  • Mountains That Were Not There
    Mountains That Were Not There

    Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

    A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

  • Take It or Leave It
    Take It or Leave It

    Original title: Võta või jäta

    2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

  • Zoopark
    Zoopark

    2017 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

    The discomfort that people feel when looking monkeys in a cage is a warning sign.

  • Class Reunion
    Class Reunion

    Original title: Klassikokkutulek

    2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: René Vilbre

    It’s been 25 years since graduation and three friends are headed to their big class reunion. On the night before the reunion, the guys go out to party and feel like they are 18 once again. But the world around them, as well as their physique, has changed drastically over the past 25 years...

  • Refuse to Sink
    Refuse to Sink

    Original title (in Estonian): "Keeldu uppumast"

    2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Kristiina Tang

  • Requiem to the Whooper Swan
    Requiem to the Whooper Swan

    Original title: Reekviem laululuigele

    2003 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

  • Mayor of Tallinn Hardo Aasmäeʹs interview in Toronto
    Mayor of Tallinn Hardo Aasmäeʹs interview in Toronto

    Title in Estonian: Tallinna linnapea Hardo Aasmäe intervjuu Torontos

    1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    The visit of Hardo Aasmäe, Mayor of the City of Tallinn, to Toronto in February 1990.

  • Edgar Savisaar Arrives at Toronto Airport
    Edgar Savisaar Arrives at Toronto Airport

    Title in Estonian: Edgar Savisaare saabumine Toronto lennujaama

    1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    The film depicts festive reception of Edgar Savisaars and Hardo Aasmäe's arrival at Toronto airport in 1989.

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