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  • Year Of The Pig
    Year Of The Pig

    Original title: Sea aasta

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

    The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Estonian limestone
    Estonian limestone

    Title in Estonian: Eestimaa paas

    1988 | Documentary | Director: Gennadi Meleško

    Documentary commissioned by the committee of construction of USSR introducing the Estonian national stone – limestone.

  • Beautiful is the land
    Beautiful is the land

    Title in Estonian: Ilus on maa

    1984 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Maran

    Poetic documentary directed by Rein Maran about Estonian nature, history and the present day.

  • 50 aastat viisaastakuid
    50 aastat viisaastakuid

    1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Evald Vaher

  • Tallinna mosaiik
    Tallinna mosaiik

    1978 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

  • Sirgala karjääris
    Sirgala karjääris

    1977 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ülo Tambek

  • Oil shale miners
    Oil shale miners

    Original title: Kivihännad

    1974 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Ülo Tambek

    Documentary directed by Ülo Tambel about the miners's work in an oil shale mining in Estonia.

  • Metsapäev Tallinnas
    Metsapäev Tallinnas

    1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • El Dorado
    El Dorado

    Original title: Eldoraado

    1971 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

    Artistic documentary by Ülo Tambek about oil shale mining and the life of miners in Estonia in 1970s.

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