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Leonhard Lapin. Process

Original title: Leonhard Lapin. Protsess

2020 | Documentary, Portrait | Director:

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.

This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. In the second half of the 1960s, deep in the middle of the Soviet era, Lapin went to the capital to study architecture at the Art Institute. Lapin is especially inspired by pre-war Estonian funk architecture and Russian constructivists. In contrast, the bleak mass production on the actual building arena provokes protest and anger. He finds many like-minded people, and his artistic circle of friends ...
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It All Happened In Võru

Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

The Republic of Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. During the century, the little town of Võru has lived through all the events that have rejoiced or shaken the entire country – gaining and regaining of independence, world wars and deportations, destructions and reconstructions. For people living in Võru, it is the centre of the universe. For them everything happens here. What makes this life worth living?
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Heldur

2017 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Karol Ansip

Shortly before Estonia regained its independence, a painting studio came into being, a studio that was guided by principles of painting that dated back to the First Republic. Heldur Viires, the leader and teacher of the school, has been passing on his knowledge of colour and light for thirty meaningful years.

An authentic Pallasian (disciple of Pallas Higher Art School), Heldur Viires is not just admired but also loved and cared for by his students. A true master who continued sharing his painterly advice even at the age of 89, when he still visited the studio every afternoon to have a look at the nudes painted that morning. An old-school gentleman whose students gather together every year on the 24th of February to raise a glass of sparkling wine to the Estonian Republic. A vigilant spirit who has shared the path with Ülo Sooster, Henn Roode, Kaja Kärner, Lembit Saarts and ...
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Mood for Nostalgia

Original title: Viis nostalgiale

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Robi Uppin, Maria Kivirand

Short documentary Mood for Nostalgia is about friendship between neighbors who have known each other for entire life. A cold winter, silence, loneliness and thoughts of nostalgia are surrounding their every day life. Their sincerity opens up a world of unusual friendship in isolated countryside of Estonia.
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See olemine

1990 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Sirge
Võrumaa

1990 | Documentary | Director:
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Bees of Sound

Title in Estonian: Heli mesilased

1987 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

Heli Teppo, music teacher of Rõuge basic school and her pupil Andres Piigli express their thoughts and emotions about the youth song celebration in 1987.

Gustav Ernesaks once greeted the young participants in song celebration: "Welcome, you vivacious bees of sound! You have gathered, note by note, the honey of song to our joint honeycomb of song with such hard work and care!" Music teacher Heli Teppo and Andres Piigli, pupil of Rõuge basic school, express their memories about the youth song celebration in 1987, that brought a new swarm of bees of song to the song festival ground. They are interviewed by Lehte Hainsalu.
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The Winds of Milky Way

Original title: Linnutee tuuled

1977 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

The sequel to „The Waterfowl People“. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970.

Documentary of cultural anthropology about the ethnography and ethnogenesis of the Finno-Ugric peoples is a sequel to the documentary "The Waterfowl People" (1970) directed by Lennart Meri. The author of the film interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relations of the Finno-Ugric peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansis, Hungarians, Sámi, Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on locations in northern Finland, Sámi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia, Hungary, the Taymyr Peninsula, Setomaa region in Estonia and in Saaremaa and Muhu islands, Estonia. Some footage was also filmed in Nenetsia in 1970. The film ...
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Talvisel päeval

1940-1941 | Documentary, Overviews | Director:
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1940 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1912-1940 I half | Director: