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Kalev

2022 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Ove Musting

It’s the summer of 1990. The Soviet Union is teetering on the verge of collapse, while the little Baltic nations struggle to take back their lost independence. The Soviet Union`s basketball championship is set to begin on the backdrop of a deeply divided society. The Estonian team Kalev faces a momentous decision. With Estonian independence seemingly within reach, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team’s participation in the USSR’s championship. That would contradict the people’s aspirations for liberation. As professional athletes, the team makes the unpopular choice. The championship games start…
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Language Rebel. Mati Hint

Original title: Keelemässaja. Mati Hint

2022 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Annika Koppel

The documentary focuses on the life and creative path of Mati Hint, a linguist, essayist, and lecturer who played an important role in politics during the restoration of Estonian independence.

In the revolutionary nineties, it was extremely important that the Estonian language became the state language, and for this a language law had to be adopted. Mati Hint was the ideologue of the Language Act, and thanks to his courage, attempts to change it at the last moment failed. That's how his rebellion benefited the Estonian state. The film investigates what was the role of fertile landscapes and harsh history of South Estonia in the formation of his uncompromising nature and rebel mentality
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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
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.

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. They are led by 32-year-old Mart Laar, Europe’s youngest prime minister, who is charged with crafting a country out of chaos. 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.
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Three August Days

Original title: Kolm päeva augustis

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Madli Lääne

In the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and a Russian boy reach across cultural lines to unite over a shared bottle of American soda.
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The Singing Revolution

Original title: Laulev revolutsioon

2006 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Maureen Castle Tusty, James Tusty

American film directors James Trusty and Maureen Castle Tusty regard Estonian Singing Revolution as the turning point of European history.

Compendious treatment about Estonian contemporary history and the SInging Revolution. Despite the fact that the documentary focuses on the process of Estonia regaining its independence in 1987-1991, the film also looks back to occupation of Estonia and the decades that followed the event. Lots of archival film materials have been used. We can see people who participated in the events and influenced the course of these events - politicians, conductors of song festivals, dissidents and regular citizens. The filmmakers emphasize the tradition of song festivals and the unique experience of a nation to sing themselves into freedom without violence. Documentary ...
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Akvaarium

1998 | Documentary | Director: Laine-Astrid Bils
Tallinn kutsub - kas Helsingi kuuleb

1997 | Documentary | Director: Yrjö Tähtelä
Keisrilõige

1996 | Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Laulusillad

1992 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp, Jüri Tallinn
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