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Dalai-laama Eestis

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
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Demonstration in Toronto to support Macedonia

Title in Estonian: Meeleavaldus Torontos Makedoonia toetuseks

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The film depicts a demonstration by Macedonian community in Queens Park, Toronto, in order to recognize the state's independence.

The film depicts street views in front of the Hotel Filmores, the demonstration, flaring Macedonian flags; folk music is playing and the crowd is dancing. The interviews held with Macedonians are about the nationality and the history of Macedonia, also about the yearning for peaceful independence for the country that is also supported in Canada. Also the representatives of other countries of former Yugoslavian Federation participating in the demonstration express their support. The crowd applauds the speeches. There is also an Estonian poster among the other ones supporting Macedonian independence.
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Estonian Contemporary Art Siim-Tanel Annus

Title in Estnian: Eesti nüüdiskunst: Siim-Tanel Annus

1991 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

Performance by Siim-Tanel Annus that forwards its message through text, images and music.

Siim-Tanel Annus was one of the main performance artists in Estonia in 1980-1993. In the film, the artist says that his attempt is to express something that cannot be forwarded through words or paper. The film full of images and associations aims at touching the borders between life and death. Keywords of this kind of creative activity are: blindfolded human being, burden, fire and rituals related to fire. The refined geometrical abstract figures in the early printed works by SIim-Tanel Annus express the endeavour to exit the daily routine towards the sky and the light. "Nine Mantras", a musical piece ...
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Interview with Küllo Arjakas in Toronto

Original title: Küllo Arjakase intervjuu Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with Küllo Arjakas on the events taken place on January 13th, 1991 in Vilnius.

Küllo Arjakas spends a longer period of time in Canada and USA. He is being interviewed by a TV reporter, they discuss the events that took place on January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. The interviewer wonders why the conflict has increased, whether Estonian people are afraid of the situation and how Estonia will defend itself. Arjakas responds even three times to the question how Canada could help the Baltic states. After the interview the reporter and Küllo Arjakas talk about visiting Russia. Representative of Latvian press room faxes a special announcement to newspapers from Latvian National Federation in Canada.
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Interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter is in Riga during the barricades

Original title: Intervjuu Kanada läti emaga, kelle tütar on Riias barrikaadidel

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

TV interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter happened to in the middle of the tragic events in Riga while going on a trip to Latvia.

Latvian mother contacts her daughter, who has taken a trip to Latvia, on the phone. The daughter happens to get into the middle of the tragic events in central Riga where the Soviet OMON commando started to shoot the unarmed protesters on barricades on January 20, 1991. Among the protesters was also her daughter. Naturally, mother's worry for her daughter's safety was extremely big, fortunately she made it. Similarly to the majority of expatriate Latvians in Canada, mother is passionately supporting the restoration of independence of the Republic of Latvia. Photographs of the mother and daughter.
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Jaan Elken in Rodney Bradbury's Private Gallery in 1991

Title in Estonian: Jaan Elken Rodney Bradbury eragaleriis "Ateljee Kransen" 1991

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Jaan Elken with his wife visiting British artist and estophile Rodney Bradbury's private gallery in Uppsala on May 12, 1991.

Jaan Elken with his wife visiting British artist and estophile Rodney Bradbury's private gallery in Uppsala on May 12, 1991. Rodney Bradbury shows Jaan Elken his materials, conversation at the coffee table.
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Kalevi korvpallimeeskond - NSV Liidu meister

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
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Kultuurihoone "Majak" juubel

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:
Lithuanianʹs Community Information Bureau in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna infobüroo

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Forms are being filled in at the Lithuanian Community Information Bureau in Toronto, also operational information about the tragic events in Vilnius in 1991 is given.

The Lithuanian Community Information Bureau looks busy. People are filling in forms and giving signatures. Information about the events in Vilnius on January 1991 is being collected and mediated both via phone and fax. Worker at the information bureau gives an interview to the news channel CBC News (synchronized). The interviewee tells about the Soviet armed agression against the protesters in Vilnius. Western world should definitely react to the efforts of the Baltic states for regaining their independence. The interviewee believes that Mikhail Gorbachev has lost control over the events taking place in the Soviet Union.
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