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Taarka

2008 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ain Mäeots

The drama directed by Ain Mäeots is based on the play "Taarka" by Kauksi Ülle and tells the story of the Mother of Song - Hilana Taarka - who was despised as a woman and worshipped as a singer.

When young Taarka plays the frog and prince game with her friend Vasso and kisses him, her destiny is already being changed - Taarka's father has gambled away all his money and his daughter's silver jewelry in the tavern. Taarka has a great singing talent but since she is poor and has dark complexion her boyfriend Vasso is told not to marry her. When Taarka gives birth to twins, Vasso is nowhere to be seen. She struggles through life alone and becomes a self-confident woman living according to her own rules. She is known as the Mother of Song ...
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On the Border of Two Worlds

Title in Estonian: Katõ ilma veere pääl

1990 | Documentary | Director: Karl Kello

Documentary directed by Karl Kello, Kuldar Sink and Aare Hõrn about the Seto people living on the border of two worlds, two cultures and two religions, the East and the West.

Mighty kings and seven hundred years of great wars could not destroy the small Seto nation, even if the fifty years of the Soviet regime has been extremely hard. After World War 2, the ancient habitat of Setu peoples - Pechorsky district that had belonged to the first Republic of Estonia – was annexed to Russia. Half of the Seto population of five thousand people remained in Estonia and the other half in Russia. The life of both halves has been very different. And despite that the small nation attemps to preserve their mentality and language, religious traditions, to cherish ...
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Siia, siia, siirdu, viirgu! Tantsupidu 1970

1971 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Maie Kivita
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Eesti NSV 30. aastapäev

1970 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vladimir Parvel
It's me who makes the beautiful things

Title in Estonian: Ma ise ilutegija

1966 | Documentary | Director: Endel Nõmberg

Ethnographic documentary about Estonian folk art.

Ethnographic documentary about Estonian folk art emphasizes the artistic practice of our forefathers and foremothers, expressed in clothes, furniture, construction of barn houses and various everyday tools and utensils. Beautiful patterns keep living on also in the artistic practices of contemporary artists and these are inherited to the next generations. The filmmakers visit the Estonian Open Air Museum and observe making of metal art and ceramic pieces.
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