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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Phantom Owl Forest

Original title: Eia jõulud Tondikakul

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Anu Aun

Adventures are going to begin when 10-year old city girl Eia is brought to mysterious Phantom Owl Farm for the winter holiday.

The new Estonian family adventure film “Phantom Owl Forest” talks about 10-year old girl Eia whose Christmas plans take an unexpected turn, when the city girl is brought to a mysterious Southern Estonian farm for the winter holiday. At first the girl does not even realize she will soon save a doomed prival forest, bring together two people in love and untangle a secret held closely in the family.
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Whitsunday At Tammealuse

Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer. Whitsunday is known in folk memory as an important holiday for country folk and merry spring holiday that has been celebrated in Estonia through the ages to greet the arriving summer. Whitsunday (or Whitsun, Whit) involved many traditional preparatory activities - tidying the home and its surroundings, decorating with birches, going to the sauna. The celebration itself took place at the nearest sacred Grove, where a swing was set up and a bonfire made. ...
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Ja saagu teid palju kui liiva meres

1997 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin
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Celebration of Victory Day and the Anniversary of Mixed Choir "Koit" in Estonian House Thilmere

Title in Estonian: Võidupüha ja segakoori Koit aastapäeva tähistamine Thirlmere Eesti Majas

1981 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Celebration of the anniversary of mixed choir "Koit" and Victory Day in Estonian House, Thilmere, Australia on June 27, 1981.

Mixed choir "Koit" of the Estonian House Thilmere takes actively part in the social events and national holidays. Local expatriate Estonians are celebrating Victory Day in Estonian House in Thilmere. The mixed choir is on the stage. People congratulate a choir member. Female singers in beautiful national costumes perform a song. Choirmaster Irene Haldma-Eelma is on the stage, conducting a smaller group of singers first, followed by a bigger group of singers' performance.
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The Feast of St John

Original title: Jaanipäev

1978 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Esimene Mai

1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Harri Martinson
Family 16

Original title: Perekond 16

1967 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu spend time with their small children in their hometown Uppsala and in Svia in 1966 and 1967.

Heino Nõu's 5th birthday. Children of the Nõu family with Christmas presents. Children on the sledging hill in their home year in January 1967. Summer house in Svia in winter. Liia Nõu turns 2 years old. Easter holidays on Gröna Street. Laine turns 7 years old in summer, she gets a new bike as a present. Summer in Svia, strolls in the forest. Joosep Nõu visiting in the summer house. Midsummer's Day and round dances in Källparken, Uppsala.
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Family 12

Original title: Perekond 12

1966 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Married writers' couple Enn and Helga Nõu spend time with their small children in their hometown Uppsala in 1966; children's birthdays, pastime activities, games. The summer gathering of Estonians in Grisslehamn.

Laine is practising ballet, little Liia is crawling. Heino and Laine are decorating Easter eggs. Walpurgis Night, wearing white hats on Caroline mountain, Uppsala, logfire in the evening. Celebration of Laine Nõu's 6th birthday in June. Summer gathering of Estonians on June 25, 1966.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
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