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Gorilla Tourism

Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

Rwanda in Eastern Africa is a place that already for the past twenty years, after the last civil war and genocide where almost a million people were killed, has been successful in avoiding ethnic conflicts and in constructing a new society of conciliation. The main source of income for the people in this country of the Hutu and the Tutsi is mainly agriculture; however, the strict rulers of the state want to turn this mountaneous country into one of the most modern and technologically developed small states of Africa. But the main source of financing this grand plan is mountain ...
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In Between

Original title: Kahe maailma vahel

2014 | Portrait, Students film, Documentary | Director: Liis Lepik

Estonian Muslim Kristi with Arab roots is an aid worker in a big Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.

What does a human being really need? Over the few years more than three million Syrians have fled across the border to escape the bloody civil war. Kristi is an Estonian Muslim with Arab roots. She is a humanitarian worker at one of the biggest refugee camps in Jordan with a task to map the conditions of the camp’s teachers. People there have lost their homes, loved ones and are living in tents, but despite all that they seem surprisingly positive. On the other hand, healing the world is not an easy task and challenges Kristi’s own emotions and surviving ...
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Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

Original title: Surnuaiavahi tütar

2011 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Katrin Laur

The feature film directed by Katrin Laur tells the story of a girl who grows up in a periphery of Estonia, in the middle of unemployment and alcoholism. Her parents are unable to lead a good life and without love, hope and grace their family would be broken.

Lucia leads a carefree life in a small town of Estonia but her grades at school are not that good so the teachers are worried. Lucia's father Kaido is a graveyard keeper and repairs cars in the meantime; her mother Maria has lost her job and since then been drinking with her unemployed friends. Neither of them has time to help Lucia with her school. The child protection inspector is about to check their case when the family is unexpectedly invited to visit a Finnish family. They spend a week with priest Sirpa's family after which Lucia will have a ...
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Don´t Kill the School, Please!

Original title: Ärge pange kooli kinni

2000 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus

The Metsküla Elementary School is a classic example of the joys and problems of the current education system. Today, there are 22 students and 3 teachers here. And yet, the threat of closure looms over this school as well. If the school dies – the town will die with it.

It's the first schoolday of the 21st century in Metsküla Primary School in Matsalu, Lihula parish. There are 22 pupils in six different grades and 3 teachers in the school. The school functions well, both teachers and pupils are happy with it. However, the school is facing the prospect to be shut down soon. Metsküla Primary School is more or less a typical example of today's basic school education together with its ups and downs. In the swirl of 1970s fast economic growth the school was back then shut down - now the 130-year-old school has been brought back to ...
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The Phenomenon of Eha

Title in Estonian: Eha fenomen

1999 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

A story about a very brave and positive woman fighting cancer.

After being diagnosed with cancer, Eha was operated 15 times during 13 years, she got chemical and radioation treatment. But her optimistic attitude and willpower have always been there. Eha is a unique case in the medical practice of Estonian oncologists. The documentary shows the doctors who treat Eha: Avo Viiard, Jaan Kelk, Aivar Tilk and Ants Vaar who are really glad as Eha has succeeded to survive for such a long time with her disease. Eha's big love Mati is certainly behind the woman's positive state of mind. They met when both of them had gone through difficult times. ...
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The Sanctuary

Original title: Varjupaik

1999 | Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus
Tom & Fluffy

Original title: Tom ja Fluffy

1997 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Leo Lätti

A little village on the shore of a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy, are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is an inventor who has just invented a sugarmachine.

A little village on the shore of a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy, are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is an inventor who has just invented a sugarmachine. Old dog Klaus returns to the village from his journey around the world. These four, along with Julius the cat and Otto the spoiled dragon who lives in the pond; the obstinate Korean chameleon and Richard the talkative bear; Leo the rat and Julia the little white female mouse; James the rabbit who is not at all convinced that ...
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Keisrilõige

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Tuulealused I film

1996 | Nature, Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Enn Säde
Tuulealused II film

1996 | Nature, Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Enn Säde