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When I Start ... Part Two

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...II

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati Viiul

Documentary about Igor Tõnurist, activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, introduces folk instruments and tells about this publications on folklore. He explains the principles of wearing national costume and of folk music. Interviewed by film director Mati Viiul.
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Behind the hard work

Original title: Kaua tehtud kaunike

2007 | Documentary | Director: Mati Viiul

The documentary introduces the daily life of the Institute of Geology and the story of its new building - the process of construction, moving and opening.

Institute of Geology (of the Tallinn University of Technology, formerly also the Institute of Geology of Estonian Academy of Sciences) is an independent research, development and teaching institution of the university related to earth sciences. The documentary introduces the sites where the institute was initally designed to be built and its first projects as well as designs. Finally the right location for the institute was found - in the campus of the Tallinn University of Technology.
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Forest Brother

2007 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mihkel Jürisson
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When I Start ... Part One

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...I

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati Viiul

Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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Dreamland Queens

2005 | Documentary | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

Around ten women get together in a tight dressing room three times a week - meet the ice-hockey team Dreamland Queens. The team includes young girls, housewives, a kindergarten teacher, a teacher, a student and a businesswoman.

It's a total makeover for these women - everything feminine gets removed - skirts, stockings, underwear and make-up. Instead, they get dressed into clothes that serve to protect not to make pretty - warm long underwear, protections for knees, torso and groin. Finally they put on their helmets in front of mirrors. The ice-hockey team Dreamland Queens starts with the training. At late nights, these ten women jump into the thoroughly masculine world.
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Is Best Enough

Original title: Kas parimast piisab?

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Marek Miil

The documentary takes the viewer into the back stage of professional sports world including its hidden aspects while following judo athlete Alexei Budolin.

Judo athlete Alexei Budolin represented Estonian in the olympic games in Athens in 2004. Everyone expected him to bring home the best results; what happened is that Budolin was a total failure. The sportsman himself and all the people surrounding him - his coach, co-athlete, wife, doctor-chiropractor, mentor and witch - try to find the reason why Budolin burned out despite the fact that everyone gave their best. All the helpers are so different that they won't form an unanimous team for the sportsman. He loses his focus and ground below his feet. Yet, Alexei, who is an optimistic person, ...
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National Sport

Original title: Rahvuslik sport

2005 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Madli Lääne
The Sum of Absent Days

Original title: Äraoldud päevade summa

2005 | Music Documentary, Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants.

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants. This film is about a powerful creative person who despite of the twists of the destiny wrote ten symphonies and became quite complicated symbol to a small nation.
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Original title: Vali kord

2004 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Andres Maimik
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On the Edge of the New World

Original title: Vahtsõ ilma veere pääl

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat