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  • Women on the Frontline
    Women on the Frontline

    Original title: Naised rindejoonel

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Ivar Heinmaa

    A documentary film about the war that broke out in Eastern Ukraine in spring 2014 through the eyes of women.

  • Close Relations
    Close Relations

    Original title (in Russian): Rodnye

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Manski

    Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

  • Let's Play War
    Let's Play War

    Original title: Täna mängime sõda

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Meelis Muhu

    Enthusiasts of different nationalities join such clubs because of their appreciation for the memory of WW II as well as their love of the hobby of reconstructing in detail the soldiers' lifestyle of the era.

  • Together, yet Apart
    Together, yet Apart

    Title in Estonian: Koos, aga eraldi

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aile Ellmann

    Documentary about the humanitarian aid for Ukraine and about the people living in Luhansk Oblast during the war.

  • Arvo Pärt - Even if I lose everything
    Arvo Pärt - Even if I lose everything

    Original title: Arvo Pärt - isegi kui ma kõik kaotan

    2015 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

    “Even if I lose everything…,“ Arvo Pärt has written in his workbook. He calls the diary his workbooks. In the course of decades, along with work at musical texts, he has filled those workbooks with his contemplations, with his moments of grief and joy, with his finds, discoveries, worries and experience – with everything that might be called the inner life of an artist.

  • Pit-Hole
    Pit-Hole

    Original title: Яма

    2010 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Jiri Stejskal

  • Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov
    Dialogues. Composer Valentin Silvestrov

    Original title: Dialoogid. Helilooja Valentin Silvestrov

    2008 | Documentary, Portrait, Music Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

    Valentin Silvestrov is an internationally acknowledged contemporary Ukrainian composer of classical music and regarded as one of finest composers of his generation.

  • Lennundusnäitus
    Lennundusnäitus

    1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heikki Aasaru

  • Kõik inimese heaks
    Kõik inimese heaks

    1985 | Other categories, Commissioned, Popular Sciences | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Viru kolhoosi kogemustest
    Viru kolhoosi kogemustest

    1985 | Documentary, Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Peeter Tooming

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