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Under The Shade Of A Tree

Original title: Ühe puu varjus

2023 | Documentary | Director: Carlos Eduardo Lesmes Lopéz

This film is an exploration of the challenges that Sabina and Jaco, a pluricultural couple, encounter in their search for happiness. It is a story of a faithful belief in love when bringing a baby into the world.

The film follows Estonian Jaco and Columbian Sabina as they prepare for the birth of their baby and adjust to their new life as parents. They met in the summer of 2020 and have not been apart ever since. In little over a year, they moved in together, visited Colombia, got pregnant and became parents. Sabina works in a tech start-up and wants to keep doing experimental film and photography. Jaco works as a grave digger and wants to study landscaping. Their biggest dream is to live in a small cottage in the countryside, growing their garden and be close ...
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Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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St. John’s Day

Original title: Jaanipäev

2017 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets, Jaak Kilmi

On the day preceding the St. John’s celebration, tens of thousands of people wait for hours in a queue that stretches for kilometers, in order to board the barge that will take them to the island Saaremaa.

Every bona fide Estonian has met the midsummer solistice on the island of Saaremaa - anyone who has not can’t possibly know what St. John’s celebration is truly about. On the day preceding the holiday, tens of thousands of people wait for hours in a queue that stretches for kilometers, in order to board the barge that will take them to the island. The film portrays those who are impatiently waiting to leave the continent and the locals who will stay. The villagers cannot imagine life without the queue - they've grown up with it, some have made fortunes capitalizing on ...
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Midsummer's Eve in Altja in 1990

Title in Estonian: Jaanilaupäev Altjal 1990

1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Midsummer's Eve in the swing ground at Altja village in 1990. People are making music, sitting and listening. Young people are swinging with the village swing.

Midsummer's Eve in the swing ground at Altja village in 1990. People are making music, sitting and listening. Young people are swinging with the village swing.
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The Feast of St John

Original title: Jaanipäev

1978 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Our time

Title in Estonian: Meie aeg

1975 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

Establishment of collective farms and the successful activities of three collective farms in the present day.

Almost thirty years have passed since the establishment of collective farms in Estonian SSR. The filmmakers ask what the collective farms have achieved during these years and how agriculture functions. The answers are given by the people from three collective farms and the heads of the collective farms - those of Aravete, Leie and Estonia. Episodes about the everyday life in collective farms and the film chronicles about the era of the first Republic of Estonia, about the rural life and founding of collective farms. Voiceover by Mikk Mikiver.
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Family 25

Title in Estonian: Perekond 25

1970 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The married writers' couple Enn ja Helga Nõu spend time with their children in their hometown Uppsala and in near surroundings from the Midsummer Day 1969 to Walpurgis Night 1970.

Children bathing in the Lake Ekoln. Midsummer's Night in Hammarskog recreation centre - round dances, performances by folk musicians, folk dancing, beautiful views of nature. Laine Nõu is horseback riding in Vaksala. The Nõu family is walking on Sunnersta mountain and near the Lake Ekoln in the autumn. Their dog Betti has visitors. Askvägen is getting heavy snow at the end of November, Betti in deep snow. Heino is shoveling snow. Christmas in their new home. Laine is playing the piano, Heino and father Enn are reading. Children in their rooms. The living room with books, fireplace and TV set. ...
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Family 26

Title in Estonian: Perekond 26

1970 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu with their children in their hometown Uppsala and in other beautiful places in Sweden in 1970. Near the Lake Ekoln, Midsummer Day in Gamla-Uppsala, in the Linné Hammarby botanical gardens belonging to the University of Uppsala, in Furuvik recreation park.

Walking near home, flood in the fields. The house of the Nõu family in Askvägen has been filmed from the neighbour's window. The new garden is ready by June in Askvägen. Laine turns ten years old. Midsummer Day in Gamla-Uppsala. In the Uppsala Dome Church and in Linné Hammarby botanical gardens that belong to the University of Uppsala. In July, Enn Nõu is mowing grass with his manual lawnmower in his home yard. Enn Nõu waiting for his brother Olev on Skarholmen bridge. The first rose has burst into bloom in Askvägen. The Nõu family in Furuvik recreational park together ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1955 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
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Estonians' Outing in Hindas, West Sweden

Title in Estonian: Eestlaste suvepäevad Lääne-Rootsis Hindases

1947 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Estonians' outing in Hindås, West Sweden on June 23rd, 1947.

The outing of expatriate Estonians in Hindås, West Sweden on June 23, 1947 celebrates the Midsummer Day and the Victory Day. The documentary piece is introduced by the quotation by Johan Kõpp: "The nation that does not want to die won't disappear". Swedish and Estonian national flags are waving in the ski jump tower. View to the surrounding landscape. Buses and trucks are in the parking lot, plenty of people are getting off the train. Participants wearing native costumes walk in the festive procession in Hindas station in the morning and they arrive at the party ground. Valdur Leinveer, head ...
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