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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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The Swan

Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

There is a beast living on the top of a mountain in Iceland. It appears to human beings as a swan. When looking in the eye of a man, the beast will see the person completely through and foretells all about the life of the person. Meeting the swan is an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. This is often the reason why so many people wish to travel to Iceland and drive around the country despite harsh weather conditions. It is not a free choice for the nine-year-old ...
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Mercato

Original title: Turu majandus

2016 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director: Mihkel Ulk

Documentary film “Mercato" takes the viewer into one of the world’s poorest counties, Ethiopia. In the largest open air market in Africa, we follow the most ordinary working day of 10 year old shoe shine boys, wood-carrying ladies, an arrogant messenger and a well educated tourist guide.

Abebe and Ashenafi are ordinary 10-year old boys, whose parents sent them to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to work as shoe shine boys so the family would not starve. Abtu is an orphan teenager and works as a talalaki or a messenger, but work is the least on his mind. Bertukan is a mother of three. In order to survive, she carries heavier loads of wood than she herself weighs. Mulugeta is an educated guide who, thanks to his language skills, has an higher ranking in local society. All these Ethiopians are brought together in the Africa's largest market ...
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Recreation Ceremony of Studentsʹ Corporation "Vironia" on 13.05.1989

Original title: Vironia A!C! 2000 Tartus 1/2

2000 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of corporation "Vironia" - opening of the memorial tablet in Riga, visiting Talavija Convent, silent night at the convent house in Tartu.

Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of corporation "Vironia", anniversary festivities. Bus trip to Riga, opening of the memorial tablet in Riga on November 22, 2000. Visit to Latvian student corportaion "Talavija". Excursion in the convent building and the beer table. Silent night at Tartu convent. Opening of Herman Malvet's (alumnus of "Vironia") room on November 24; presentation of the research; music performance.
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Estonians preparing to leave to the Toronto airport

Title in Estonian: Eestlased lahkuvad Toronto lennujaama

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Estonian choir says goodbye to Canadian Estonians in Toronto.

Estonian choir says goodbye to Canadian Estonians in front of Tartu College in Toronto after which they take a bus to Toronto airport. The film shows Vello Soots.
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Elu ilma…

1987 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mark Soosaar
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RAT EstoniaSavonlinna ooperifestivalil

1987 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Andres Sööt
Dialoog

Original title: Dialoog

1986 | Other categories, Commissioned, Educational | Director: Heli Speek
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Maroko, Agadir...

1981 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Popular tourist cities in Morocco - Agadir and Marrakesh.

Plain trip to Agadir - resort city in Morocco. A family on a hotel balcony. Agadir port and its merchants. At the carpet shop. Tourists on the beach, a boy having fun in the waves. The family buys street food and goes on a ride with camel. Near the Agadir Kasbah fortress, views from the mountain to the port and the surrounding nature. Riding downhill on a bus. Carpent merchants. On the beach. The cameraman tries to catch the sight of flying birds. Ebb tide. People are walking in a shallow water. Southern architecture of hotels. Ride to nature - ...
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World Freedom Day

TItle in Estonian: Maailma vabaduse päev

1981 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

World Freedom Day is celebrated in Taiwan at the end of January.

World Freedom Day is celebrated in Taiwan at the end of January. 70th anniversary of the establishing of the Republic of China is also celebrated in 1981. Arvo Horm, chairman of the Swedish division of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), and Jörgen Lundqvist, youth secretary, are participating from Sweden. Emblems of WACL and APACL, views to the buildings and the city. Street busy with traffic and people. Arvo Horm and Jörgen Lundqvist on the Freedom Square in Taipei. Celebration of the Freedon Day takes place in the first President of China, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen memorial hall on January 23 where ...
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