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  • The Last Relic
    The Last Relic

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Marianna Kaat

    Filmed over four years in the provincial city of Yekaterinburg, The Last Relic is a stark cinematic portrait of the absurdity of life in Russia where the majority dreams of restoring imperial glory and a handful of opposition activists desperately resists Putin’s relentless march towards a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway
    Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway

    2019 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Miguel Llansó

    Two special agents are tasked with protecting the computer programme that runs a future metropolis. However, the ‘Soviet Union’ virus soon starts wreaking havoc. A delirious ride!

  • Risti aarded
    Risti aarded

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

  • Rodeo - Taming a Wild Country
    Rodeo - Taming a Wild Country

    Original title: Rodeo

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Kiur Aarma

    It is 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since World War II have to the surprise of all brought to power young and idealistic political forces. This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day.

  • Cutting Through
    Cutting Through

    Original title: Läbilõikamine. Meie maailm, 10/12

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Ove Musting

    The documentary introduces excerpts of those against the Nicaragua Canal fighting for their human rights, public order, democracy, private property and freedom of expression.

  • Sparkling Rivers
    Sparkling Rivers

    Original title: Sädemete jõed

    2016 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Märten Vaher

    Georgian environmental activist Dato Chipashvili fights against hundred million investment projects putting the interests of local people and transparency first.

  • Freedom or Death
    Freedom or Death

    Original title of the film "Vabadus või surm"

    1995 | Documentary | Director: Artur Talvik

  • Interview with president Dudayev
    Interview with president Dudayev

    Original title: Intervjuu president Dudajeviga

    1995 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Kümmel, Artur Talvik

    Interview with Dzhokhar Dudayev, the legendary president of the Republic of Chechnya held in the spring of 1995.

  • Sergei Soldatov in "Eesti Kodu" in Uppsala on November 13, 1981
    Sergei Soldatov in "Eesti Kodu" in Uppsala on November 13, 1981

    Title in Estonian: Sergei Soldatov Uppsala Eesti Kodus 13.11.1981

    1981 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Freedom fighter Sergei Soldatov talks about his past, actions against the Soviet power, imprisonment, co-fighters and the situation in the Soviet Estonia in "Eesti Kodu" in Uppsala on November 13, 1981.

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