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  • Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist
    Kopli Lines. Hosted By The Last Coupletist

    Original title: Kopli liinid. Võõrustab viimane kupleelaulja

    2019 | Documentary, Portrait, Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak

    An experimental documentary about an Estonian couplet singer who is sent to visit an Armenian-born parapsychologist to help him cope with stress and find something positive about being the last couplet singer in his country.

  • They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music
    They Say Tomatoes Love Rock Music

    Original title: Räägitakse, et tomatid armastavad rokkmuusikat

    2016 | Feature film, Short | Director: Janno Jürgens

    Aleksander, an old gentleman, maintains a blooming garden surrounding his old house in a sleepy resort town. Karl, his grandson, spends the summer with him and learns about the ways of the nature.

  • Out of the hole
    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.

  • Freedom Starts from Within
    Freedom Starts from Within

    Original title: Vabadus algab seest. Kai-Mai Olbri autoportree

    2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kai-Mai Olbri

    This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.

  • The Revolution that Wasn't
    The Revolution that Wasn't

    2009 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aljona Polunina

  • Somnambulance
    Somnambulance

    Original title: Somnambuul

    2003 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Sulev Keedus

    The second feature film directed by Sulev Keedus is a phychological drama about human fear of tomorrow and about hopeless pursuits in order to keep one's spiritual balance in Estonia that has been recently occupied.

  • Erki Kasemets
    Erki Kasemets

    2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Salujärv

    A documentary about the strange creative world of artist Erki Kasemets.

  • Stories of the Livonians
    Stories of the Livonians

    Original title: Liivlaste lood

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Enn Säde

    This is not an ethnographic film about a Finno-Ugric tribe, but a documentary about the decline of a nation.

  • Nõukogude Eesti: Varandus VII
    Nõukogude Eesti: Varandus VII

    1987 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peeter Tooming

  • Laulab Marju Länik
    Laulab Marju Länik

    1985 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Toomas Lepp, Kaido Kuusik

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