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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…

  • War over the Flying Squirrel
    War over the Flying Squirrel

    Original title: Lendoravasõda

    2018 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Heli Tetlov

    People find themselves in a deadlock over a tiny animal on the verge of extinction.

  • Cutting Through
    Cutting Through

    Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

    The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

  • Sparkling Rivers
    Sparkling Rivers

    Original title: Sädemete jõed

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

    Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

  • Out of Fashion
    Out of Fashion

    Original title: Moest väljas

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Lennart Laberenz

  • Springtime Wonderband
    Springtime Wonderband

    Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

    2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

    A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.

  • Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution
    Traces of Empire: Radioactive Pollution

    Original title: Impeeriumi jäljed: Radioaktiivne reostus

    1994 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Other categories, Commissioned | Director:

    Documentary talks about the radioactive pollution areas left by the Soviet Empire.

  • Ernst Jaakson's speech on 48th Session of the UN General Assembly
    Ernst Jaakson's speech on 48th Session of the UN General Assembly

    Title in Estonian: Ernst Jaaksoni kõne ÜRO Peaassamblee 48. istungjärgul

    1993 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Ernst Jaakson, permanent representative of Estonia in UN and the extraordinary and fully authorized representative of the Republic of Estonia in USA, holds a speech at the 48th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City in 1993.

  • Tuleviku ajalugu
    Tuleviku ajalugu

    1989 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märt Müür

  • How Are Yoy Going On, Virumaa?
    How Are Yoy Going On, Virumaa?

    Original title: Kuidas elad, Virumaa?

    1988 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Peeter Tooming

    Documentary directed by Peeter Tooming about the biggest environmental protest in 1988, a youth bike trip through the desolate areas in Viru county, Estonia.

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