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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Captain Morten And The Spider Queen

Original title: Kapten Morten lollide laeval

2018 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Riho Unt, Henry Nicholson

Sometimes you need to be shrinked in order to grow up.

A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up. He builds a toy boat which he crews with insects. This is his escape from the unhappy world of the harbour café where he lives with his aunt Anna. When Morten is shrunk in a botched magic trick he finds himself sailing his own boat across the flooded café. The insect crew look uncannily like his aunt ...
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Everyday Mysticism

Original title: Vello Salo. Igapäevaelu müstika

2018 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

A story about a trickster priest preparing to leave this world.

This documentary film is about the beauty of growing old. It is a story about an old and wise man who is preparing to leave this world and, thus, faces many personal and delicate questions. How not to loose faith in these final hours? Why are the greatest among us put through the hardest trials in the spiritual realm? Vello Salo is a Catholic cleric in his 90s, but first and foremost, a human being: a free spirit, a man with his own quirks and tricks, not to mention a lifetime of experience and wisdom which has been well-preserved to ...
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Kristo - Estonian boy who was treated in Canada

Title in Estonian: Kristo - eesti poiss, keda raviti Kanadas

2000 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

Kristo visiting the Estonian Baptist Church in Toronto.

Kristo with a foot disability is visiting the Estonian Baptist Church in Toronto. The young man with his mother leaves the bus. They are walking to the Baptist Church through the silent suburb. Exterior views of the church building. Local old expatriate Estonian ladies are talking to Kristo and his mother. Kristo meets his elderly relative who is sincerely happy for the reunion. God's blessing is asked for the Estonians. Finally everyone enters the building of the Estonian Baptist Church Toronto. Kriso was operated in Canada in 1991.
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Back to Europe

Original title: Kapsapea 2 ehk Tagasi Euroopasse

1997 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Riho Unt

The film “Back to Europe“ is a parody of the classic adventure film genre.

The main character of the film, farmer Saamuel, has just become free from the Soviet Union and is in no hurry to join the European Union. Rather, he forces Europe to reckon with him in the course of hair – raising adventures and dangerous situations.
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RAM at Church

Original title: RAM kirikus

1989 | Newsreel, Amateur films | Director:

Estonian National Male Choir performs at the religious service in Toronto church in the spring of 1989, before the Easter Sunday.

In the spring of 1989, the State Academic Male Choir has for the first time the opportunity to visit expatriate Estonians in Canada. The male choir takes part in the religious concert on March 18 and at the church service in St. Andrew's Church in Toronto. The singers gather to the podium next to the altar, the national flag is waving. The audience takes seats in the hall. Church song is accompanied by the organist, people are singing along, members of the male choir open their songbooks and also sing. Karl Raudsepp, bishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, by ...
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Vanemuise teatri külalisetendused Rootsis

1983 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Evald Vaher
Estonia balletitrupp

1972 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Ülo Tambek
Wartburg-900

1967 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Valdur Himbek, Ülo Raudmägi
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Sõpruse tähtede all

1963 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov