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  • Let’s Do It!
    Let’s Do It!

    Original title: Teeme ära!

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Aleksandr Heifets

    In 2007 an Estonian entrepreneur was illuminated by a beautifully simple idea: our planet is full of garbage - let’s start with our own backyard and clean it up! Exhilarated by success, the time seems ripe to accomplish something of true magnitude…

  • Truth and Justice
    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.

  • To Breathe as One
    To Breathe as One

    Original title: Üheshingamine

    2013 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty

  • Vefieši
    Vefieši

    2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Paula Ligere

  • Black Ceiling
    Black Ceiling

    Original title: Must lagi

    2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender, Priit Pärg, Olga Marchenko, Mati Kütt

    Estonia’s first animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling illustrating works by Estonian poets.

  • Lights in The Night
    Lights in The Night

    Original title: Tuled öös

    2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

    A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing.

  • Substantia Stellaris
    Substantia Stellaris

    Original title: Substantia stellaris

    2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt

    Ilmar Laaban’s poetry written in the Cosmos scatters like filings, builds up in our senses and spreads out in our bodies as stellar substance.

  • Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women
    Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

    Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

    2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

    Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

  • Estonian National Male Choir concert in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University (3)
    Estonian National Male Choir concert in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University (3)

    Title in Estonian: RAM Toronto Ülikooli saalis 3/3

    1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Estonian National Male Choir gave its first concert to the foreign Estonian audience in Canada, in the Convocation Hall of Toronto University in spring 1989.

  • Estonian Song 1988
    Estonian Song 1988

    Original title: Eestimaa Laul '88

    1988 | Documentary, Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Toomas Lepp

    Estonian Song '88 was the event held in the Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn on September 11, 1988, where the largest number of people took part. During six hours 11. septembril 1988 toimus Tallinna laulväljakul seni kõigi aegade rahvarohkeim üritus Eestimaa laul ‘88, kus kuue tunni jooksul peeti sütitavaid kõnesid ja lauldi isamaalisi laule.

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