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Kui seda parki ees ei oleks

2023 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets, Madis Ligema
Local Urbanites

Original title: Lokaalsed linlased

2022 | Documentary | Director: Maria Uppin

In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.

Is a town planned for cars or people? This question seems to become more acute every day. One such battlefield is the Tallinn Main Street project but similar fights are going on in almost every town in Estonia. In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.
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Out of the hole

Original title: August välja!

2013 | Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa

Leida Rammo, Estonian oldest performing actress, believes in miracles and passionately fights for the new building of Tallinn City Theatre.

"Does the geniuses have the right for their own theatre?" asks Leida Rammo (1924), the oldest performing theatre actress in Estonia. And she's got the answer as well: "Yes, they do!" Tallinn City Theatre has its own genius - the stage director Elmo Nüganen. However, he has no proper house for the theatre, nor a big stage and a theatre hall. It has to be pulled out from a hole, says the Grand Old Lady and prepares herself for conquering administrative agencies. The vigorous actress writes official letters, goes to meet the administratives of the city government, consults the editor-in-chief ...
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Paper Town

Original title: Paberist linn

2013 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

Gentlemen with grand ideas look into the past and future of Narva: Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard in a degrading town hall; Mats Gabrielsson wants to turn Narva into a new Hong Kong in the future.

Fyodor is recreating the past of Narva out of cardboard. Mats is designing the future of it, and knocks down old red brick buildings. They both have love for the town. Russia took over Narva from Sweden in the Great Northern War in 1704. Since then, the rule has been passed over six times. Not only on the border of Estonia and Russia, Narva is also on the cusp of the past and the future. This affectionate film brings the town to life in archive material, in models and architects’ sketches.
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Construction Artist Toomas Rein

Original title: Ehituskunstnik Toomas Rein

2010 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary by Peeter Brambat about architect Toomas Rein.

Documentary introduces Toomas Rein, a unique and creatively uncompromising construction artist. For several decades, Rein has been one of the most influential persons in Estonian architecture, one of the top architects. Among his life's work (including about 120 buildings and projects), the objects that Toomas Rein designed when working under EKE Projekt in 1967-1986 emerge the most - it was the era when innovative heads of collective farms commissioned modern office buildings from architects. Toomas Rein has been an active architect also at the beginning of 21st century. Documentary follows the construction of a grand project in Laulasmaa - the ...
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Great Sons of Kalev

Original title: Kalevite kanged pojad

2010 | Portrait, Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik

Film director Valentin Kuik portrays sculptor Tauno Kangro and his efforts in order to erect his monumental sculpture "Kalevipoeg" in the Gulf of Tallinn.

A documentary about the epic hero Kalevipoeg, a famous sculptor, and a corruption scandal. The idea to put a huge statue of Kalevipoeg in the Gulf of Tallinn dates back ten years. The film records the important events of the large-scale project. By now, no one knows when Kalev will make it home to bring luck to his children and growth to his country. But hope remains...
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Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

2001 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

Documentary about the possibilities to preserve the wooden architecture of a city in contemporary urban environment with the examples from Baltic states and Scandinavia. Filmmakers follow the renovation works of an old wooden house in Väike-Patarei Street, Kalamaja district in Tallinn. During one year, the house will be restored into the condition of a contemporary residential house. Both experts and city residents from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Latvia etc. share their opionions about the future and sustainability of the subject of restoring wooden architecture. For decades, renovating wooden architecture was considered something unimportant.
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The Statue

Original title: Kuju

2000 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik

Documentary directed by Valentin Kuik focuses on the discussion on the idea of creating the statue of Kalevipoeg by sculptor Tauno Kangro.

Well-known sculptor Tauno Kangro and his businessmen friends have come to an idea to create a monumental statue of Kalevipoeg, a hero in Estonian national epic, in the Bay of Tallinn. This has brought along sharp criticism. It is the year of 2000. Despite of the fact that lots of work has been already done, the final solution is still far away. The documentary emphasizes the complicated relations between Estonian culture, media and enterprise. The city is offered a free monument and there is not a single tangible reasons to say no. The disputing parties will never agree due to ...
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Chief Architects

Original title: Peaarhitektid

1999 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about Soviet architecture and buildings in Tallinn, equipped with the commentaries by former top architects.

The era under discussion tends to be forgotten. We are witnessing how Tallinn is losing its appearance of Soviet era. We can be grateful to the fact that the worst architectural projects were never completed. Three former decision makers in architecture - Mart Port, Dmitri Bruns and Voldemar Herkel - discuss the construction in Tallinn according to their personal experience of that time. The talk is led by architect Ike Volkov. The gaze of director Andres Sööt focuses on the aesthetics of Soviet ugliness, concrete grey new apartment building blocks, deserted constructional gaps in urban environment and on the capacity ...
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Lünk

1988 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Jaak Lõhmus
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