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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | 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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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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Living Together a la Sri Lanka

Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

2016 | Documentary | Director: Mati Kark

The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

In 2016 it was seven years since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Some people don't even remember who the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were and for what they were fighting. At the same time, we are witnessing the growth of extremism in Europe as well as the military conflict in Ukraine. It seems that the history of Sri Lanka civil war serves as the best example how easily increasing jingoism can lead us to aggressive conflicts. But what makes people hate? Where is the formula of integration and peaceful co-existence? The authors of the documentary ...
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Ernst Jaakson's speech on 48th Session of the UN General Assembly

Title in Estonian: Ernst Jaaksoni kõne ÜRO Peaassamblee 48. istungjärgul

1993 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Ernst Jaakson, permanent representative of Estonia in UN and the extraordinary and fully authorized representative of the Republic of Estonia in USA, holds a speech at the 48th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City in 1993.

Ernst Jaakson, the ambassador of the Republic of Estonia in the United States of America, makes an overview of the situation in the Baltic States. Soviet military bases block the reconstruction work and normal development in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that have newly obtained independence. The military bases have left their trace on the environment of the Baltic States after these 50 years. There is vandalizing and violating the environmental safety requirements on the territories of military bases. Therefore, fishing in the Baltic Sea is endangered. All three Baltic countries must collaborate in designing a joint sea boundary. The existing ...
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Eesti Filmikroonika

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski
Pajusi kolhoosi Kalana suurfarm

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Nõukogude Eesti

1963 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu
Noorus filmis

1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski, Mihhail Dorovatovski
Nõukogude Eesti

1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski
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