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Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West. It recalls a time when art was larger and more important than life itself. But also a time, the like of which Estonian art has never seen and most likely will never see again. On one side, there are independent Soviet artists who lack not only the output but also the finances to complete their works. On the other side, there is the tempting West whose ambassadors (in the literal sense) take active interest in the Soviet underground art market. Selling one’s works to the West is a ...
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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
Koma

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Avdjuško, Peeter Simm

Documentary about well known Estonian theatre director Kalju Komissarov.

Kalju Komissarov (08.03.1946-06.03.2017) was one of the greatest and most influential theatre and film director and theatrical pedagogue in Estonia. To this day most of the big names who work in Estonian theatre stages have been his students. He was in charge of Estonian Youth Theatre 1974 - 1986, Ugala Theater 1989 - 1991 and 1986 - 1995 Drama School of Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Till his death in 2017 he was the professor of University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. You can see his students remembering him and his last interviews in documentary “Koma”.
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Tomorrow Island

2018 | Students film, Short | Director: Gwenn Joyaux

A love story during the Cold War.

In the dawn of the Cold War, a young Soviet telegraphist makes a desperate attempt to save her American lover from being stranded in the Russian side of the Bering Strait after receiving a border closure message.
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Legacy

Original title: Pärand

2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

Legacy is a documentary about the „closed city“ of Sillamäe – a city that Stalin founded for the needs of the first atomic bomb built in the Soviet Union. The local Estonian population was almost entirely relocated and the neoclassical resort town was virtually rebuilt for the Soviet elite working in the uranium enriching factory. The inhertance that period left is a complex one – including a radioactive tailing pond. The Soviet hegemony lingers on in Sillamäe, where the tiny Estonian population still strives to retain their culture. The documentary investigates the multifaceted relationship between state and – how did the closed ...
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Disco and Atomic War

Original title: Disko ja tuumasõda

2009 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Playful documentary by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma about the development of their generation during the Soviet era where the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture and the Finnish Television was the window to the world of dreams.

The playful documentary tells the story about a strange war of information in Estonian SSR during the 1980s when the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture. And the heroes won. Western pop culture played extremely important part in developing the world view of the Soviet youth - today this may seem rather weird. Finnish Television, that was visible only for people living in Northern Estonia, was the only window to the world of dreams and that was out of reach for the authorities to be banned. The documentary combines political action with fictional stories based on the memories ...
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The Rainbow

Original title: Vikerkaar

2005 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Martians are hanging the laundry out to dry. Yet who is drying Wendy’s underpants?

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Martians are hanging the laundry out to dry. Yet who is drying Wendy’s underpants? An answer is not received because something horrible rises up in the sky. The newspaper Pravda glides out of the dimness of the ages and contributes to the establishment of the Communist Party of Greenland. Jose Fernandez quits spitting into the wind because the odour of operation “Sewage Death Seal” ...
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The War After War

Original title of the film "Sõda pärast sõda"

2002 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm
Estonian Ambassador Trivimi Vellisteʹs Speech on 50th Session of the UN General Assembly on April 21, 1995

Title in Estonian: Trivimi Velliste kõne tuumarelvastuse leviku tõkestamise konverentsil ÜROs

1995 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Estonian Ambassador at the UN Trivimi Velliste holds a speech on the 50th Session at UN General Assembly on April 21st, 1995.

Trivimi Velliste, Estonian Ambassador at the United Nations, emphasizes that Estonia supports the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Estonia supports the treaties restricting the use of strategic weapons and hopes that the treaty about prohibiting all nuclear weapons testing will be accepted soon. According to Velliste, the end of Cold War did not bring immediately peace; however, extensive nuclear disarmament became possible. Estonia continues its efforts in international organizations to reduce levels of pollution and to fight against illicit nuclear trafficking that would increase both local and global security.
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