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Cinema to Your Doorsteps

Original title: Kinobuss - kino koju kätte

2004 | Documentary, Making of | Director: Mikk Rand

In summers, filmmakers together with film students travel around Estonia by an old bus called "Kinobuss" with the purpose of restoring cinema traditions in Estonia.

Kinobuss is a revived form of mobile cinema. Young filmmakers and film students travel around Estonia in order to promote Estonian film and introduce contemporary means of the "moving picture" with the help of technological innovations. Through the protagonists' enthusiastic attitude towards life and sharing their knowledge on cinematography, the documentary observes the traveling of Kinobuss, the road-movie-ish story about the possibilities of cinema in a small territory such as Estonia where the importance of culture, and cinema culture, outweighs the one of economy.
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Mister Wall and the Wind

Original title: Jüri - see mulk, ehk mis tuul müürile...

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn Säde

Documentary by Enn Säde portrays Jüri Müür - an important filmmaker in Estonian culture whose films are among the best ones in Estonian national filmography.

Enn Säde's documentary about Jüri Müür who was his colleague and friend, an Estonian filmmaker (1929-1984). When Jüri was fifteen he joined the support service of German air force; during the last days of war he travelled to Germany, France and Africa. In 1946 he returned home and soon escaped to Karjala, Finland from KGB. He got acquainted with film during his studies in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. In a way, Jüri Müür became the icebreaker of the birth of Estonian national film in 1960s. He made five full-length feature films, a couple of dozens documentaries, wrote ...
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From eternity's point of view

Original title: Igaviku seisukohalt

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus, Heli Speek

Portrait documentary about cameraman Semyon Shkolnikov and the Soviet era that he filmed.

Semyon Shkolnikov (b. 1918), cameraman of film chronicles and documentaries, started his career in the field of filmmaking as a war front cameraman. In 1948 he started to work for Tallinn Kinostuudio (later known as Tallinnfilm), Estonia. He was a member of crew working with 377 cinema newsreels "Soviet Estonia"; as a director he has completed 60 documentaries. Semjon Školnikovi meenutuste vahele on pikitud rohkelt arhiivikaadreid, mis annavad pildi operaatorist endast kui ka nõukogude ajastust, mida ta filmis.
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Peeter

2001 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary directed by Jüri Sillart about filmmaker and photographer Peeter Tooming and his battle with serious disease.

Peeter Tooming – photographer, cinematographer, film director and publicist – has lived and is living an extremely intense creative life despite the fact that the sword of Damocles has been dangling above his head. He lives thanks to his will and bravery. He is a man who stands on gates; a man who has gone further than us. Who confronts the Unknown and himself. He is amongst us and yet halfway the River. There is still hope that he will return, but he won't be the same person. He has seen the world and its values from the slightly different ...
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Rein Raamat in Animafilmtion World

Original title: Rein Raamat animatsiooni maailmas

1999 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

The work of Rein Raamat, one of the most outstanding Estonian animated film directors and artists, seen through his own and his colleagues` eyes.
Grisha

Original title: Griša

1996 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary about Grigori Kromanov - a film and theatre director - directed by Jüri Sillart.

On the basis of interviews held with Grigori Kromanov´s (1926 – 1984) family, schoolmates, friends, colleagues, co-fighters and opponents, and using extracts from films, Jüri Sillart has produced a psychological and creative documentary portrait about the film and theatre director who never ceased to seek his place in the world. Based on these recollections an image about a talented, human, kind, honest, restless and uncompromising man will be made, a portrait of someone as a prisoner stuck between two different culture; however, whose heart belonged to only one of them.
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Antosha

Original title: Antoša

1995 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jüri Sillart

Portrait film by Jüri Sillart about one of the most prominent man in Estonian Television, a talented cinematographer Anton Mutt and about his tragic life.

Cameraman Anton Mutt - a distinguished filmmaker in Estonia and a bright star of the local television film history - started his career as a photographer and reached the world of film during the first years of Estonian Television in late 1950s. Anton Mutt was a teacher and an example for the whole generation of filmmakers who successfully tested the possibilities of the art of television - the new field of media. The pages of the cinematography in the history of Estonian Television have been mostly written by this very man. Anton Mutt loved his profession, he dedicated all his ...
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Vabandage, ma monteerisin teiega

1994 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp
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Jaak Lõhmus in Estonian Home in Uppsala on March 24, 1991

Title in Estonian: Jaak Lõhmus Uppsala Eesti Kodus 24.03.1991

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Jaak Lõhmus, film critic and screenwriter, meets expatriate Estonians in Uppsala Estonian Home on March 24, 1991.

Jaak Lõhmus meets expatriate Estonians in Uppsala Estonian Home on March 24, 1991. He talks about his work as a screenwriter with the documentary "The Escape" (directed by Andres Sööt). The film is about the escaping of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet forces to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.
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Meie aja kangelane

1988 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop
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