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Madleen

2023 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Maria Kasesalu

Film student Maria Kasesalu's short documentary follows acting student Madleen Maria Kirja's preparation for the course production "Sinilind" where she plays the role of Fairy.

Madleen Maria Kirja is a 2nd-year acting student of the Viljandi Academy of Culture, who is facing difficulties in cooperation with the director and preparing for her own role in the course production "Sinilind".
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Heldeke, Dan

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Filip Martinovič

Dan Renwick eventually settled in Estonia after a life as a travelling street performer. This film is a reflection on the life he’s lived and envisages for his future in Estonia and beyond.

Dan Renwick owns his own vaudeville style theatre, Heldeke! We join Dan in his bar to discuss his life as a travelling performer and what fringe theatre means to him. He discusses his rejections from universities and how he made his own degree (to travel around the world without flying and perform on the street) which is yet to finish.
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A Year Full of Drama

Original title: Aasta täis draamat

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marta Pulk

A young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.

Estonia is crazy about theatre. In October 2017 there's an announcement for a paid position to find someone who has never been to theatre before. The task – to watch and review every Estonian theatre production of 2018. From 450 job applicants 21-year-old small town girl Alissija is hired. Coming from the periphery and a Russian-speaking family, she knows nothing about performing arts, actors, nor has ever been to any of the theatre houses. To make the job logistically possible, she has to move to the capital of Tallinn. Months pass and there are shows that inspire and many more ...
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I Let Her Out

2018 | Students film | Director: Ruta Pakalne

Ruta Pakalne's documentary film about the drag performer.

I Let Her Out is a documentary film centered around the drag performer Joosep Jürgenson and his stage persona Ursula. It explores the relationship of these two characters who share the same body but live quite different lives. Who is Ursula? Is she an extravagant character, a fruit of someone’s vivid and scandalous imagination or is she an integral part of Joosep that allows him to speak his nonconformist mind. Is she a fiction that was created together with several collaborators or has she always been there, dormant, waiting to be unleashed? By seeing the intimate process of creating Ursula ...
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It All Happened In Võru

Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

The Republic of Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. During the century, the little town of Võru has lived through all the events that have rejoiced or shaken the entire country – gaining and regaining of independence, world wars and deportations, destructions and reconstructions. For people living in Võru, it is the centre of the universe. For them everything happens here. What makes this life worth living?
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Theatrical Play "Dearest of All" by Drama Club of Melbourne Estonian House, Part 1

Title in Estonian: Melbourne'i Eesti Maja näiteringi etendus "Kallimast kallim", I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut
Theatrical Play "Dearest of All" by Drama Club of Melbourne Estonian House, Part 2

Title in Estonian: Melbourne'i Eesti Maja näiteringi etendus "Kallimast kallim", II jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut
Baltics Art in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Balti kunst Torontos

1992 | Film footage, Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories | Director:

Art historian Eda Sepp and artist Siim-Tanel Annus talk about the phenomena in Estonian art during the Brezhnev's era. The talk is held in the exhibition of Baltic contemporary art in Toronto.

Exhibition of modern art "Baltics Arts during Brezhnev Era" is opened in an art gallery in Toronto. Estonian art historian living in Canada, Eda Sepp (simultaneous translation), is giving explanations in front of the artwork by Malle Leis. According to Sepp, forms of the so-called contemporary art were not favoured during the Soviet era; sociocritical messages and meanings in the art of painting were hidden. Artist Siim-Tanel Annus (syncro) is talking (simultaneous translation) about the unofficial art in Estonia with the example of his abstract artwork and performance art pieces from 1980s. The latter disturbed officials in the field of ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1964 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Aleksandr Mandrõkin