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Raise Me a Memory

Original title: Läinud on jäänud

2023 | Documentary | Director: Varun Trikha

“If you are born a Seto, you remain a Seto” As this phrase from Setomaa suggests, being a Seto implies being a possessor of a cultural past which one can’t escape.

A creative documentary about how the seto culture is transitioning amidst some historical, political and cultural upheavals; told through three characters trying to make sense of what it means to be a seto in today’s surrealistic border landscapes of Setomaa. ‘Dreams’ are considered pivotal in seto beliefs and it’s through them that the three characters escape the demons of the present to meet and understand a nuanced past which they have inherited as setos. The two-world imageries of Setomaa express and compliment this dual existence of the three characters.
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Truth and Justice

Original title: Tõde ja õigus

2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Tanel Toom

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbour and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place. Young and energetic man Andres together with his wife Krõõt arrives to his new farm bought on a loan to establish their new life. Robber’s Rise must become a place, that’ll take care of the family. Household needs a lot of work and consistency – battle with nature, fate and his spiteful neighbour Pearu ...
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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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Gerassimov's Women

Original title: Gerassimovi naised

2017 | Documentary | Director: Birgit Rosenberg

Humorous and thoughtful insight to the past and present life of Estonain border-town of Narva as reflected through the elderly women's thoughts and everyday realities.

In an Estonian town Narva, elderly Russian ladies meet in a park. Each of them has her own path that has led them to this war-scarred town. Today the border separating Estonia from Russia is running just a few hundred meters from their homes. Only nostalgic, haunting or funny memories take them back to the Soviet realities of their youth. On the park bench the past and the contemporary, the sacred and the profane, two states and regimes mix into a fluid called life.
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Soviet Hippies

Original title in Estonian: Nõukogude lillelapsed

2017 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Thrilled by rock music, inspired by the cult of peace and love, the young long-haired drop-outs craved for freedom and created their own System in the Soviet Union despite the strict regime of the 1970s.

A wild flower power ride on the footprints of the Soviet hippie movement take you into the psychedelic underground of 1970s. In search of freedom and happiness under the thumb of the strict political regime a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds and other long-haired drop-outs created their own System in the Soviet Union. Years later, a group of eccentric hippies take a road journey to Moscow where people still gather annually on the 1st of June to commemorate a tragic event in 1971, when thousands of hippies were arrested by the KGB.
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Our world is theirs

Title in Estonian: Meie maailm on nende oma

2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Mati Kark

Journalistic documentary about the conflict between Israel and Palestine from the point of view of local Arabs and Jews.

Residents of Palestine try to preserve normal daily life despite the bloody conflict with Israel. Palestinian children go to school, local farmers grow vegetables, young people dream about the better future – everyone tries to go on living a normal life. Among others, local headmaster and peace activist Jalal Khudairy, taxi driver Taisir Jubeh, agricultural entrepreneur Mohammad Shraim, basketball coach Abedalraziq Ezzat, olive grower Shareef Khaled, Madli Maruste, volunteer from Estonia, share their thoughts about life and solving the conflict. The documentary also shows the life of Palestinians in a refugee camp and in Israeli settlements founded in the middle ...
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Speech by Riivo Sinijärv, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, on 50th Session of the UN General Assembly on Sept 25, 1995

Title in Estonian: Riivo Sinijärve kõne ÜRO Peaassamblee 50. istungjärgul

1995 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The speech by Riivo Sinijärv, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia, at the 50th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 25, 1995.

Meeting between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all UN member countries, taking place on September 24-27, 1995, is a part of the programme of the 50th anniversary of UN General Assembly. Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riivo Sinijärv, also takes part in the event. Sinijärv holds a speech at the general discussion on September 25th while focusing on the following subjects: the Republic of Estonia joining European Union; border issue with Russia; feeling of satisfaction after the departure of foreign troops; being proud of taking part in the UN peace support operation for the first time. For Estonia it ...
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Peapiiskop Kuno Pajula

Eesti Kroonika nr 1, 7/7

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Gennadi Meleško
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Südame kutsel

1986 | Documentary, Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
Saksa DV Schwerini sõprusrongi külaskäigust Tallinna

1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson