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Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

A housewife confronts situations to which no sane response exists... The film is an experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969. An experimental collage creating an alternative narrative to the storylines in the animations, documentaries and feature films of that time period.
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Year Of The Pig

Original title: Sea aasta

2021 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand

The film gives us a look into a year in our recent history, namely the year 2019, which polarised our people in politics and between generations. Without choosing sides and without unnecessary explanations the events shown in the film create a thought provoking story about a nations arrival to the end of the industrial age.

Monitoring a controversial year in the recent history of our country-the year 2019, an extensive visual essay of imminent serious challenges has been created by the author Raimo Jõerand. From winning the War of Independence to gaining freedom from Russian occupation during the Singing Revolution, we now have to defend our land from the brightest of foes, from ourselves. Will we be able to take on this fight?
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1944

Original title: 1944

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Elmo Nüganen

The film tells about the events during the war of 1944 in Estonia, viewed by the Estonians fighting at the Red Army and German Army.

The Battle of Tannenberg Line, often referred to as the Battle of the European SS. WWII.1944. The bloodiest conflict on the Eastern Front. Volunteer infantry battalions from Denmark, East Prussia, Flanders, Holland, Norway and Wallonia within the Waffen-SS fight off Soviet Army's thrust at Germany. Half of the SS infantry consists of local Estonian conscripts motivated to resist the looming Soviet re-occupation of their small country. Motivated until they meet their brothers in the Soviet Army. Men brought out of Siberian labour camps and now returning home. Today 70 years on, the makers of Estonia's biggest ever box-office success ...
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Original title (in Estonian): "Veregrupp"

2013 | Documentary, Students film | Director: Leeni Linna
Pimedad aknad

2008 | TV feature, TV feature | Director: Tõnis Kask
Mere sügavustes

1987 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
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40 aastat Tartu vabastamisest Saksa fasistlikust okupatsioonist

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Moonsundi sügis

1984 | Documentary | Director: Mati Talvik
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Tagasitulek

1979 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Ülo Tambek
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Pimedad aknad I seeria

1968 | TV feature, TV feature, Series | Director: Tõnis Kask

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