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  • Learning Videos for Avita
    Learning Videos for Avita

    Original title in Estonian: Avita kirjastuse õpikuklipid

    2020 | Students film, TV Show | Director: Katariina Ratasepp

    Learning videos for Avita 3rd year Estonian language e-schoolbook.

  • Funeral Diaries
    Funeral Diaries

    Original title: Matusepäevikud

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

    The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

  • Taagepera
    Taagepera

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm

  • Itelmen Stories
    Itelmen Stories

    Original title: Itelmeeni lood

    2010 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    Two Itelmen hunters commence a long journey in order to restore the ancient hunting technique and to go back to their roots.

  • Afanassi
    Afanassi

    2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

    Documentary about Afanassi Triškin's and his granddaughter Liina Triškina's journey to Afanassi's first home in Central Russia.

  • Maimu
    Maimu

    2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

    16-year-old Maimu lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and in Puka, Estonia; speaks several languages and prepares for Norwegian studies in Saint Petersburg University.

  • Videoringvaade "Eestimaa" nr 1, detsember 1988
    Videoringvaade "Eestimaa" nr 1, detsember 1988

    1988 | TV Serial, | Director:

  • Festive Opening of the Chair of Estonian Studies in Toronto University (3)
    Festive Opening of the Chair of Estonian Studies in Toronto University (3)

    Title in Estonian: Toronto ülikooli Eesti õppetooli avaaktus 3/4

    1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    The festive opening ceremony of the Chair of Estonian Studies at Toronto University held in the great hall of Estonian House in Toronto on October 4, 1986.

  • Celebrating the Mid-Summer in "Metsakodu" Camp on June 25, 1983
    Celebrating the Mid-Summer in "Metsakodu" Camp on June 25, 1983

    Title in Estonian: Suviharjapidu Metsakodus 25.06.1983

    1983 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Traditional mid-summer celebration in "Metsakodu" camp on June 25, 1983: Heiner Erendi holds a religious service; Helga Nõu talks about the importance of Estonian language; poem by Raimond Kolk.

  • Indrek
    Indrek

    Original title: Indrek

    1975 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mikk Mikiver

    The first feature film directed by Mikk Mikiver is based on the play "Man and God" staged by Voldemar Panso in 1962 in Estonian Drama Theatre. The story is based on the second part of pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton Hansen Tammsaare.

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