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  • Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Original title: Savvusanna sõsarad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Anna Hints

    In the darkness of smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences. Through a sense of communion, women wash off the shame trapped in their bodies and regain their strength.

  • Mountains That Were Not There
    Mountains That Were Not There

    Original title: Mäed, mida polnud

    2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ivar Jurtšenko

    A documentary film that takes the viewer to the great stages of the sport of cycling. Estonians Tanel Kangert and Rein Taaramäe are the same age and both from the small village of Vändra. They are under the microscope as they both cycle in the top-level Astana Pro Team.

  • Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea
    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

    Original title: Regilaul - laulud õhust

    2011 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Ulrike Koch

    This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song.

  • Instead of medication
    Instead of medication

    Original title: Arstirohu asemel

    1978 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Reet Kasesalu

    The documentary tells about the phenomenon of sauna as an ancient form of physiotherapy and an alternative medication.

  • Sooleib
    Sooleib

    1978 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre

  • Ahvatluste tund
    Ahvatluste tund

    1970 | Musical film | Director: Elmo Lööve

  • The Waterfowl People
    The Waterfowl People

    Original title: Veelinnu rahvas

    1970 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    A documentary about the cultural and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in 1969 and 1970. The footage was shot in Nenetsia, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia and Estonia.

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1966 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1960 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Igor Jeltsov

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

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