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  • The House
    The House

    Original title: Metsik lõuna: Maja

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Carl Olsson

    The documentary is a reflection on identity with the outset in a nine-storey residential building. We meet a number of people living in architectural identical living rooms, all coloured in their own specific personalities.

  • Paradise
    Paradise

    Original title: Paradiis

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Andres Keil

    Syrian girl tries to adapt in an Estonian suburb.

  • New Rise, Old Ebb
    New Rise, Old Ebb

    Original title: Uus Tõus, Vana Mõõn

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Enrico Barone, Carlo Cubero, Kristiina Pilvet

    In 2016 several fires destroyed several buildings on the island of Piirissaare, among the also the Old Believers prayer house. Praskovja, the 84-year- old choir singer and important member of the community, lost her childhood´s house in one the fires and she is trying to get on her feet down again and continue living.

  • Professional amateur
    Professional amateur

    Title in Estonian: Professionaalne amatöör

    2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Indrek Kangro

    Documentary portrait about filmmaker Jaan-Jürgen Klaus who cannot be classified under the definition of filmmaker but he is definitely much more than just an amateur.

  • 40 years since the March deportation
    40 years since the March deportation

    Original title: 40 aastat märtsiküüditamisest

    1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek

    Linda Lippert, resident of Tartu, recalls of the March deportation that took place 40 years ago.

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1985 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Leo Ilves

  • Tartu uue silla avamisel
    Tartu uue silla avamisel

    1981 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Evald Vaher

  • Tartu…Sügis 1980.
    Tartu…Sügis 1980.

    1981 | Documentary, Problem oriented, Overviews | Director: Leo Ilves

  • Minu Tartu
    Minu Tartu

    1980 | Documentary | Director: Toomas Lepp

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1965 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Valeria Anderson

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