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Stream of Life

Original title in Estonian: Eluvool

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Kristiina Iilane

A short film about author’s thoughts on whether it is always necessary to share everything or is it sometimes better to remain silent in order to spare your loved ones from the pain.

Looking back on the warm childhood memories, the author is trying to understand whether we have to share all the stories with our loved ones. Or is it better to keep some for yourself in order to keep beloved people from feeling pain.
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Time Quartet: After Betelgeuse

Original title: Ajakvartett: Peale Betelgeuset

2022 | Other categories, Archive footage, Experimental | Director: Len Murusalu

A journey through the past and future myths of the dormant Livonian language.

Something has changed. At an unknown point in time, the surface of the oceans have risen and the world has been partially submerged. A second source of light glows in the sky next to the sun. Here and there appear figures from old archived photos, petrified in time. An abstract sense of loss lingers in the air, for something or somebody immeasurably far away. After Betelgeuse is a film about a feeling of homesickness caused by the unwanted demise of one’s home environment whilst travelling simultaneously between past, present and future. Narrated in the dormant Livonian language, and inspired by a ...
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Paradise Behind the Fence

Original title: Lumi punasel lagedal

2017 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Aljona Suržikova, Julia Iskhakova

The preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, include big changes to the area. Do the small villages in the neighbourhood manage to stay alive and retain their everyday routine?

One of the biggest resorts with subtropical climate in Russia is Sochi. In 2014 there will be Winter Olympics. The president Putin has promised lots of snow for the games, no traffic jams and big investments. Austrian specialists already started planning big changes to the area. Do the small villages in the neighbourhood manage to stay alive and retain their everyday routine?
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Auster

Original title: Auster

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Kadri Kõusaar, Maximiliano Schonfeld

Two lonely young people are travelling together in the bleak Patagonian desert, searching for themselves and one another.

Two lonely young people – an ultra-religious exorcist Agustina and a shy sailor Lucas meet in Río Gallegos, Patagonia. Agustina is the first woman in the south to talk to Lucas… Clumsily, he tries to seduce her. She resists. Lucas is insulted and runs towards the immense Patagonian desert. Agustina follows him… ‘Auster’ comes from the Latin, and means the south wind. In the Argentinian context it’s the coldest, harshest wind, which constantly blasts across the desolate plains of Patagonia. This bleak, merciless climate also shapes and moulds the local people. Can these two - Agustina and Lucas - find a ...
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Searching for the Light

Original title: Otsides valgust

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Heini Drui

Portrait documentary directed by Heini Drui about Raivo Hein, a successful internet businessman, astrophotographer, adventurer and traveler.

Raivo Hein is a successful internet businessman, amateur astronomist, astrophotographer and traveler. He is both an idealist and a materialist. Raivo is probably the first cosmonaut in Estonia since he has the ticket for the space trip organized by sir Richard Branson. Raivo believes in science, common sense and the bright future of the humankind. He believes that the 1000-year-old man is already born. Raivo contemplates on the future of humanity as well as the mystery of life and the universe. The subjects of truth, its existence and the ways of reaching it are being discussed by Raivo, astrophysicist Jaan ...
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The Voice of Sokurov

Original title (in Finnish): Sokurovin ääni

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Leena Kilpeläinen
Kihnu Wedding

Original title: Kihnu pulm

2009 | Documentary, Observation, Anthropological | Director: Meelis Muhu

The documentary introduces wedding traditions and rites in Kihnu island, Estonia.

A big event is going to take place in Kihnu island - an authentic Kihnu wedding party that lasts for three days. Meelis Leas has proposed Raili Oad and they get married in July 2007. On the first day their marriage will be registered in Pärnu vital statistics office. Then the couple will be taken to the island by boat and all residents of the island will greet them at the harbour. Then the bride goes to her home with her relatives and the groom does the same with his relatives. After sharing a collective meal it is time to ...
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Obsession

Original title (in Estonian): "Haaratus"

2008 | Students film, Short | Director: Andrew Bond
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Thirst by water

Title in Estonian: Janu vee ääres

1975 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Heli Speek

Problems of environmental protection in Estonia.

While bringing examples of water pollution, the documentary gives a publicistic approach towards the environmental protection issues. Views of landscape: rivers, waterfall, lakes, polluted body of water. The film also shows Kaarma spirit distillery; potato flour department of Paljusi collective farm in Jõgeva county; views of the cattle farm of Triigi sovkhoz in Rakvere county; designing of biological small cleaners in EKE Projekt.
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Veepuhastusseade BIO-200

1973 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov