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  • Each Wall Lives Its Own Life
    Each Wall Lives Its Own Life

    Original title: Iga sein elab oma elu

    2023 | Other categories | Director: Magnus Kallas

    Over time, various well-known signs appear on the wall of a house on the street. The wall becomes more confusing until it is finally demolished.

  • Fragile. See you on stage
    Fragile. See you on stage

    Original title: Fragile. Nägemiseni laval

    2013 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Director Vahur Laiapea follows the birth of dance performance "Plexus" with the following participants: a stage director, two professional dancers and a young bling woman.

  • Guardian of the soul
    Guardian of the soul

    Original title: Hingevalvur

    2012 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Meelis Süld

    One woman with two controversial professions - a criminal investigator and a religious minister.

  • Freedom Starts from Within
    Freedom Starts from Within

    Original title: Vabadus algab seest. Kai-Mai Olbri autoportree

    2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kai-Mai Olbri

    This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.

  • Multicolored Fairies
    Multicolored Fairies

    Original title: Mitut värvi haldjad

    1981 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Peeter Simm

    The filmmaker meets children who have been abandoned or placed in an institution, and tries to find out their experiences and their dreams. A humanistic film carried by superb cinematography.

  • Pentathlon moderne
    Pentathlon moderne

    1974 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks

  • Sport
    Sport

    1972 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Andres Sööt

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Põuavälk
    Põuavälk

    1968 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Jüri Škubel

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1967 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov

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