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Homing Beyond

Original title: Põlvkond piiri taga

2022 | Documentary | Director: Terje Toomistu

Young Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world share honestly and openly their personal stories and feelings about migration, belonging and roots.

At the heart of the film is a generation born after Estonia joined the European Union and who decided to go abroad to work, study or explore the world. But years later, returning to Estonia is often not as easy. The new place of residence often offers attractive career prospects and better living conditions, and important close relationships have developed. People fall in love and get married, find new comfort zones and ways to step out of them again. Terje Toomistu's documentary brings to the viewer a story about Estonians with colorful destinies living in different parts of the world, who ...
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Funny Family

Originalt title (in Russian): Веселая cемейка

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Mihhail Pogosov

The wine factory belonging to Artur's family in Armenia is about to go bankrupt. After the destructive review by an Estonian wine critic, it is decided that Artur should go to Estonia to investigate the matter.

Artur (Armen Arušanjan) is secretly dreaming of a filmmaker's career. Secretly, because his grandfather believes Artur is the right guy to take over the family's wine business. Yet, the very business is threatened by crash right before the forthcoming deal – an Estonian wine expert has written devastating criticism about the wine factory in his blog. Artur agrees to travel to Tallinn in order to solve the complicated situation and to meet the producer who has shown interest towards his screenplay. But before Artur manages to find the hated wine blogger, he runs across a self-righteous, sharp-tongued, temperamental waitress Ingrid ...
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Three August Days

Original title: Kolm päeva augustis

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Madli Lääne

In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite over a shared bottle of American soda.
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The Collapse of The Soviet Union

Original title: Eestlased Kremlis

2006 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

The activities of the Estonian representatives at the Congress of the Communist Party of Soviet Union led to the collapse of the Soviet empire.

It was during the era of 1989-1991 when the Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decisions that enabled the Baltic States to break away from the empire that once had occupied the countries. The crowning achievement of Estonian politicians in Kreml was disclosing of the secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and declaring them null and void. Distributing the ideas of Estonian politicians among the national representatives in Moscow, intensive collaboration with Boris Yeltsin and Russian democrats made the communist empire to collapse. Documentary aims at correcting the widely spred misconception that regaining their independence was ...
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Juri Vella's World

Original title: Juri Vella maailm

2003 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

Liivo Niglas portrays Juri Vella, a Nenets of West Siberia, who has returned to reindeer herding in order to escape the expanding civilization.

Nenets Juri Vella is a social activist and writer living in West Siberia who wants to escape the attack of Western civilization and has created his own world. Ten years ago he left his village to go to taiga and become a reindeer breeder. He founded a reindeer farm including both a winter and summer camp and started to live there together with his oldest daughter's family. In order to save his grandchildren from the social and psychic problems, Juri has also established a school in the winter camp where two teachers work with five children.
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Ja saagu teid palju kui liiva meres

1997 | Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin
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Videoringvaade "Eestimaa", mai 1991

1991 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:
Rukkilill

1989 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran
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Carl Robert Jakobson

1982 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Põlvest põlve

1974 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Maran
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