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  • Local Urbanites
    Local Urbanites

    Original title: Lokaalsed linlased

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Uppin

    In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.

  • Raudvara. Anu Raud
    Raudvara. Anu Raud

    2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Erle Veber

  • Great Sons of Kalev
    Great Sons of Kalev

    Original title: Kalevite kanged pojad

    2010 | Portrait, Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik

    Film director Valentin Kuik portrays sculptor Tauno Kangro and his efforts in order to erect his monumental sculpture "Kalevipoeg" in the Gulf of Tallinn.

  • Freedom Starts from Within
    Freedom Starts from Within

    Original title: Vabadus algab seest. Kai-Mai Olbri autoportree

    2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kai-Mai Olbri

    This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.

  • Maestro
    Maestro

    2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

  • Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town
    Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

    Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

    2001 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

    Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

  • Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto 1/2
    Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto 1/2

    Original title: Balti nüüdiskunsti näitus Torontos 1/2

    1992 | Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage, Amateur films | Director:

    The first part of the exhibition introducing contemporary art in the Baltic States, held in John B. Aird gallery, Toronto. Close-up of Norton Dodge, art collector in the United States of America.

  • Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto
    Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto

    Original title: Balti nüüdiskunsti näitus Torontos 2/2

    1992 | Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage, Amateur films | Director:

    The second part of the exhibition of avant garde artists in the art gallery, Toronto.

  • Lennundusnäitus
    Lennundusnäitus

    1991 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Heikki Aasaru

  • Concerto Grosso
    Concerto Grosso

    1990 | Other categories, Experimental, Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

    Experimental short documentary by Peeter Tooming about the opening party of Peeter Laurits's exhibition "Concerto Grosso".

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