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  • Your own eye is a king
    Your own eye is a king

    Original title: Oma silm on kuningas

    2018 | Documentary, Observation, Making of | Director:

    Documentary about how to stay alive in conflict zone.

  • Fly Mill
    Fly Mill

    Original title: Kärbeste veski

    2011 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

    A miller lives in a watermill, baking bread every day and raising ducklings he is hoping to set free one day. But in the field next to his home, hunters come to shoot birds.

  • How to Dance with Bears
    How to Dance with Bears

    Original title: Kuin karhut lähtevät

    2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Paul-Anders Simma

    Documentary about the transforming relationship between human beings and bears in Lapland.

  • Teade parlamendile
    Teade parlamendile

    1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Valentin Kuik

  • Koduõu
    Koduõu

    1987 | Musical film, Concert | Director: Karin Nurm

  • Human Trace
    Human Trace

    Original title: Inimese jälg

    1983 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart

    Portrait documentary about Juhan Väljaots who actively took part in local workers' movements while living in Bulgaria.

  • Land amidst the sea
    Land amidst the sea

    Title in Estonian: Maa keset merd

    1981 | Documentary | Director: Virve Koppel

    The small island of Kihnu and its diligent residents.

  • Kohtusid meri ja mägi
    Kohtusid meri ja mägi

    1977 | Musical film, Commissioned, Other categories | Director: Virve Koppel

  • 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

    1964 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson

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