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To Light

Original title (in Estonian): Valguseks/Valguseni/Valgusena

2015 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Nora Särak

“TO LIGHT” is a short documentary film made as a graduation work by Nora Särak for MA in Directing Documentary department of the Baltic Film and Media School. It was produced in 2015 by the Baltic Film and Media School. Using the poetic, observational and experimental style the film portrays a relationship between the mother Linda Kallas and the son Mart Kallas who live alone without any friends and neighbours, still looking for the light and not giving up in their own strange way.

A poetic film about a mother and son who decided to stay behind when the Estonian town Pechora became the Russian town Pechora. After 70 years there is hardly anything Estonian left in the town. Linda and Mart Kallas try to maintain contact with their homeland but this is no cure for loneliness.
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Ambassador of Setomaa

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

On either side of a disputed and un-ratified border between Estonia and Russia lies the land of the Seto people, Setomaa (meaning "Land of Wars" in the Seto language). Nowadays there are approximately 10 000 Setos left in the World. Valli who has grown up in a proper Seto family in Pechorsky District has been living in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for the last 40 years. According to her bloodline she is the fifth generation Seto folk singer. Besides her day-to-day work at Äripäev Publishing Valli continues to keep the traditions of singing and playing the garmon alive. However, ...
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Connected to the Monastery

Original title: Kloostriga seotud

2011 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.

In front of the main gates of the Pskov-Caves Monastery there is a modest wooden St. Barbara Church where Father Jevgeni has served as a priest already for several decades. He baptizes, weds, blesses, remembers, hears confessions, calculates the congregation's money and manages the church. Jevgeni holds around two hundred funeral ceremonies a year. Death is one of the main characters in the documentary; however, another main subject of the film is life - the one lived by Jevgeni and the people who are connected to him and the church. There is nun Olga who has kept a hairdresser's profession ...
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A New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner

Original title: Uus päev luuakse idakaares

2008 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

In this film, we look at the Setos – a European ethnic group who are wedged between two different cultures – the Orthodox East and the Catholic-Lutheran West. This is the story of a people who make do, living on the Eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world. One way or another, they are involved in the dawning of a new day for themselves and Europe.

Setomaa – the land of the setos is located in the south-eastern corner of the Republic of Estonia, bordering on Lake Pskov to the north, Russia to the east, and Latvia to the south. It has been a battleground for all manner of wars throughout history. This is the story of people who make do, lliving on the eastern border of the European Union, between two powers and two ways of seeing the world.
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On the Edge of the New World

Original title: Vahtsõ ilma veere pääl

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
Eesti Kongress

1990 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Ants Vill
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50 years of living pictures in Estonia

Original title: 50 aastat elavaid pilte Eestis

1962 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Ülo Tambek

Overview of the history of Estonian newsreels.

Overview of the history of Estonian newsreels. A hand with a brushpaint is giving the final touch to the title "50 years of living pictures in Estonia. Episodes of the filmmakers. Cameraman Kalju Kivi behind the camera. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Estonian film. Fragments of the archival films. 1912 – episodes of the Pskov-Pechory Monastery, Seto women in national costumes are cutting grain with the sickles, views of Tartu and its residents. 1913 – film "Great song celebration in Pärnu": festival participants, song festival stage, the choir, gymnasts and the audience. Photograph of one of the first photographers ...
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