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  • Gardens Of The Morning Calm
    Gardens Of The Morning Calm

    Original title: Tulevalvajad

    2023 | Documentary | Director: Liis Nimik

    A primal and oneiric documentary about nature and creativity.

  • Janu
    Janu

    2022 | Other categories | Director: Eva Kübar

  • Lotte and the Lost Dragons
    Lotte and the Lost Dragons

    Original title: Lotte ja kadunud lohe

    2019 | Animation, Cartoon, | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits

    We all come from our childhood.

  • Ruhnu
    Ruhnu

    1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Ain Suurhans

  • Cogito, ergo sum
    Cogito, ergo sum

    Original title: Cogito, ergo sum

    1989 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

    Instead of joining the collective farm, Karl Peterson chose threats, penalties, deportation and prison as he wanted to live as a free man in a free country.

  • Jüri Arrak /ARHIIVIMATERJAL/
    Jüri Arrak /ARHIIVIMATERJAL/

    1989 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Andres Korjus

  • Farewell to Borodin
    Farewell to Borodin

    Original title: Lahkumine Borodinist

    1988 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

    Documentary by Peeter Tooming about the possibility of life in Kunda, the town of cement.

  • Jätkata fortes
    Jätkata fortes

    1980 | Musical film | Director: Heini Drui

  • Uued veepuhastusseadmed
    Uued veepuhastusseadmed

    1976 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek

  • The Waterfowl People
    The Waterfowl People

    Original title: Veelinnu rahvas

    1970 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    A documentary about the cultural and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in 1969 and 1970. The footage was shot in Nenetsia, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari El, Karelia and Estonia.

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