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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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Snowbirds

Original title: Kliimapagulased

2018 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Maria Uppin, Robi Uppin

Ave Nahkur, the author of the Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series, decides to make a change in her life and move from her home village in Estonia to one of the Spain's Canary Islands. The documentary tries to find out how difficult it is to leave all familiar paths in one's homeland and whether this decision can be right at all.

The Ladies of Our Village (Meie Küla Eided) picture series have made Ave Nahkur one of the best known naivist artists in her homeland. For years she and her partner Imre have run an art café in Raudoja and been active in the field of tourism and art. Lively and straightforward Ave hates cold and dark winter and the depression that comes with it. At one moment things have gone so bad that she decides to make a turn in her life and move to a mountain village in La Gomera, one of the Spain's Canary Islands. Making a new ...
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Land of Soul

Original title: Hingemaa

2016 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne, Erik Norkroos

The oldest, almost century-old Estonian church in America is about to fall apart.

In a remote countryside, six hours drive from Chicago, near Gleason village there is an alley called Estonian Church Road. At the end of this alley there stands a little wooden church and an abandoned graveyard that has probably a dozen graves next to it. This building with a broken roof and a leaning tower is the first church in America built by Estonians. It was built a hundred years ago and is desperately in need of repair. In Peedu, Tartumaa County, Tõnis Mägi receives an unexpected phone call. Jaan Karukäpp is calling from Chicago. He with other local Estonians is ...
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Poeme d´Amour

Original title; Armastuse poeem

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Airi Kasera

World-famous violinist Evi Liivak, a former prodigy, is being portrayed through her husband's and friends' points of view.

Biographical documentary about a former prodigy, world-famous violinist Evi Liivak (1924-1996). The film introduces the life of a talented musician who was born in VIljandi, Estonia and who lived her life in New York. The main storyteller of the film is a widowed old gentleman Richard Anschuetz who was living and working together with Evi Liivak since the postwar years. There is noble dignity in the old man's admiration, silent contemplations, descriptions of the past and mutual relationships where the attachment to each other and to art will be revealed.
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 11

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 11. film

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Estonian Consulate General in Sydney, activities of Estonian Houses and unions in Australia.

Women prepare for the evening gathering at the Estonian Consulate General in Sydney. Malle Rohver, the General Consul in Australia, talks about the consul's daily work and about Aldur Kaljo, the former General Consul. Those who are interested in Estonia will receive materials from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Estonian Institute; introducing Estonia is one of the main activities of the General Consul. Soloist of Sydney Opera, Ingrid Silvaeus, is singing while being accompanied by the song's author Inno Salasoo. Malle Rohver recalls the death of her father in the prison camp in Russia and escaping the island ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 4

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 4. film

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Expatriate Estonians in Wollongong and the history of further education schools in Australia.

The Southern coast of Australia, beginning with Wollongong, is one of the most beautiful places on the continent. People can hang glide and go surfing here. Lembit Lainela from Wollongong recalls his past events in life. Before visiting Mr Lainela, the interviewers visit the office of Estours Travel that is owned by Mr Lainela. Lembit Lainela arrived at Australia in 1948; he was in the resettlement camp; for 13 years he worked for his own small transportation company; afterwards he studied to become a geodetic engineer and worked in the field for 20 years. His occupation took him to various ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Life of expatriate Estonians in Canberra, Australia - past times and at the present day. The life story of a famous scientist Armin Öpik.

Views of Canberra, capital of Australia - House of Parliament, War Memorial of Australia. Interior space of the House of Parliament - former Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Robert Hawk, QUeen Elizabeth II, Senator Dorothy Tangney, member of Parliament Enid Lyons, Senator of Queensland Neville Thomas Bonner have been depicted on paintings. Chamber of the Parliament. Order of Australia, designed by Vambola Veinberg born in Tallinn, is exhibited in the House of Parliament. Reet Bergman, chairwoman of the Estonian Association in Canberra, talks about the local Estonian community. She recalls the ride with a hot-air balloon on the Nations Day ...
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Elin Toona in Estonian Home, Uppsala in 1988

Title in Estonian: Elin Toona Uppsala Eesti Kodus 1988

1988 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Elin Toona holds a speech in Estonian Home, Uppsala in September 1988.

Elin Toona holds a presentation in Estonian Home, Uppsala in September 1988. She reads an excerpt from her novel "The last daughter of Kaleviküla" and explains the general setting to the audience .
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Festive Opening of the Chair of Estonian Studies in Toronto University (1)

Title in Estonian: Toronto ülikooli Eesti õppetooli avaaktus 1/4

1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The festive opening ceremony of the Chair of Estonian Studies at Toronto University held in the great hall of Estonian House in Toronto on October 4, 1986.

Professor Elmar Tampõld, founder of the Chair of Estonian Studies at Toronto University, gives an introductory speech. Professor Olev Träss gives an exhaustive retrospect about the historical background of founding the chair. Träss recalls the conversation held with Eric Allan Sibul more than twenty years ago when they came to the idea to establish the chair, that was followed by numeous bureaucratic procedures for which they had to use their academical and political connections. Professor Endel Tulving introduces Tõnu Parming, the future visiting professor of the chair, and his academic career.
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Festive Opening of the Chair of Estonian Studies in Toronto University (2)

Title in Estonian: Toronto ülikooli Eesti õppetooli avaaktus 2/4

1986 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The festive opening ceremony of the Chair of Estonian Studies at Toronto University held in the great hall of Estonian House in Toronto on October 4, 1986.

The ceremony continues. Professor Endel Tulving introduces Tõnu Parming, the visiting professor of the Chair of Estonian Studies. Parming holds a speech "Intelligence and society".
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