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  • Freedom Starts from Within
    Freedom Starts from Within

    Original title: Vabadus algab seest. Kai-Mai Olbri autoportree

    2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kai-Mai Olbri

    This film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic nature. Marriage to a loved one brings on a clear understanding of responsibility. You become positive, that happy co-existence is what allows a human being to feel free. It is because of that freedom, that you can take on new challenges and understand, that be it painting, writing, acting, or filming - your art is one whole.

  • Siima Škopi muinasjutuline maailm
    Siima Škopi muinasjutuline maailm

    2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

  • Inge Tederi maailm
    Inge Tederi maailm

    2007 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

    Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Inge Teder, the legendary head of the Art Museum of Estonia.

  • Lembit Saarts
    Lembit Saarts

    2006 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat, Helvi Raamat

    Documentary by Rein Raamat about artist Lembit Saarts, the practitioner of the painting tradition of Pallas School.

  • Still Life with Wife
    Still Life with Wife

    Original title: Vaikelu naisega

    2006 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Kersti Uibo

    Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

  • Kursi School
    Kursi School

    Original title: Kursi koolkond

    2005 | Overviews, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat, Peeter Brambat

    Documentary about an original artist grouping Kursi School that was founded in Tartu in 1988.

  • Laurentsius
    Laurentsius

    Original title: Eesti kunst. Laurentsius

    1999 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

    The documentary commissioned by the Estonian Artists' Association gives a short overview about the artwork of Estonian painter Laurentsius.

  • Jüri Arrak - 60
    Jüri Arrak - 60

    1997 | Amateur films | Director: Tõnu Aru

  • Tartu Ülikool 19. sajandil
    Tartu Ülikool 19. sajandil

    1982 | Commissioned, Educational, Other categories | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Kunstnik P.Linzbach 70 aastane
    Kunstnik P.Linzbach 70 aastane

    1972 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Harri Martinson

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