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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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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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The Kaplinski System

Original title: Kaplinski süsteem

2011 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Raphaël Gianelli-Meriano

The documentary co-directed by Estonian and French filmmakers portray Jaan Kaplinski - a man behind words.

What kind of a man, husband and father is Jaan Kaplinski, one of the most known and productive Estonian writers, poets and thinkers? What lies behind his poetry and writings? A close insight into Kaplinski's world describes one day in the writer's life, from dusk till down, full of daily activities in Mutiku farm, including discussions about poetry, language and freedom of creation during the Soviet era and today. There are pivotal times in Kaplinski's life right now since he is looking for inner freedom while following the example of Taoism. His thoughts and flashbacks of the past including simple ...
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Disco and Atomic War

Original title: Disko ja tuumasõda

2009 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Playful documentary by Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma about the development of their generation during the Soviet era where the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture and the Finnish Television was the window to the world of dreams.

The playful documentary tells the story about a strange war of information in Estonian SSR during the 1980s when the totalitarian power confronted the heroes of pop culture. And the heroes won. Western pop culture played extremely important part in developing the world view of the Soviet youth - today this may seem rather weird. Finnish Television, that was visible only for people living in Northern Estonia, was the only window to the world of dreams and that was out of reach for the authorities to be banned. The documentary combines political action with fictional stories based on the memories ...
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Lotman's World

Original title: Lotmani maailm

2008 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Agne Nelk

Portrait documentary with humorous touch tells about Juri Lotman, a world famous semiotician. The film is based on archival materials.

How to portrait a man whose world is as big as a galaxy? A man whose head houses a whole semiosphere? The fragments of Lotman's heritage have been documented in photographs, books, video recordings. One possibility in order to reflect all this would gather different lives, to visualise them and to weave them into a whole. In the film, Juri Lotman as an insect, a communicator, a man with a mustache, a jew, a cosmopolitan, a semiotician, a thinker, a father, a lecturer and a cosmonaut meets Einstein, Stalin, Gagarin, Belka and Strelka, Pushkin and Knights of the Round Table. ...
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The Singing Revolution

Original title: Laulev revolutsioon

2006 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty, James Tusty

American film directors James Trusty and Maureen Castle Tusty regard Estonian Singing Revolution as the turning point of European history.

Compendious treatment about Estonian contemporary history and the SInging Revolution. Despite the fact that the documentary focuses on the process of Estonia regaining its independence in 1987-1991, the film also looks back to occupation of Estonia and the decades that followed the event. Lots of archival film materials have been used. We can see people who participated in the events and influenced the course of these events - politicians, conductors of song festivals, dissidents and regular citizens. The filmmakers emphasize the tradition of song festivals and the unique experience of a nation to sing themselves into freedom without violence. Documentary ...
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Revolution of Pigs

Original title: Revolution of Pigs

2004 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Jaak Kilmi, René Reinumägi

An adventurous youth comedy directed by Jaak Kilmi and Rene Reinumägi takes place in an enviroment resembling Woodstock where a fifteen-year-old protagonist takes part in a revolt against the system, during which he identifies himself as a person and finds love.

In the summer of 1986 thousands of Estonian youngsters go to the gathering of Estonian Students' League in order to spend three days full of adventures, romance and partying. Yet, the pressure of the System is here - one has to follow ideological rules and keep one's mouth shut, notwithstanding the fact that the slogans are not valid any more and the graduates can be sent to the war in Afghanistan. Pressure creates anti-pressure and the struggle against the System explodes.
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A Momentous Contribution

Title in Estonian: Kaalukas panus

1990 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Mart Taevere

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee.

This is a film about the last red vicegerent of Estonia - the secretary of the Estonian Communist Party Central Comittee. Unprecedented level of senseless industrialisation was achieved under his leadership in 10 years, hundreds of thousands of people were brought here as labor power. A fight against estonian language was started in several fields of activity. Any kind of thinking expect the "right" one was sufficient reason to arrest its carrier...
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Kangelastegu on vene keeles Podvig

Podvig stands for heroic deed in Russian

1990 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

Director Peeter Tooming has documented the story of those who fought in and for Estonia. The film has been made during the time when people were hoping and waiting for the Soviet army to leave Estonia.

It is the year of 1990. Soviet army in Estonia celebrates the memory of their heroes on the anniversary of victory of the Great Patriotic War, telling the story of Aleksandr Matrossov for whom a museum has been dedicated in Tondi district, Tallinn. During the times of Perestroika when everyone was waiting for the Red Army to leave the country, Tori Heritage Conservation Society is getting ready to invite all Estonian men who once fought for their fatherland (bushwhackers, legionaries). Who are the real heroes who have fought for Estonia?
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CBC News - Estonian business students

Original title: Eesti majandustudengid Torontos

1989 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

CBC TV news reflect the situation in Estonia in 1989 and interview Estonian business college students in Toronto.

CBC TV news talk about the situation in Estonia and the Baltic States in June 1989. The programme interviews Estonian Business College students who are on a school trip in Canada in order to familiarize themselves with the local stock market etc. Andres Arrak, the lecturer of economics at the University of Tartu, gives the interview. The views of Tallinn and daily life in Estonia.
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