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Dance Of Death

Original title: Surmatants

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vaiko Edur

Documentary about American cultural historian Paul Firnhaber, who has found his peace in a small town of Estonia, called Viljandi.

In secular culture, death tends to be a taboo subject and people avoiding to talk about it, regardless of the fact that death is a part of our life. American cultural historian and anthropologist Paul Firnhaber who have moved to Estonia, thinks that one of the reasons may be ignorance - we do not know exactly what the death is and and what happens after death at all. The scientist who studied the burial rituals and the death culture of different countries, sheds some light on the fear of death, also from where have been grown out the tradition to ...
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My Father The Spy

2018 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Gints Grube

The story of daughter of a Cold War double agent.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lešinskis, then working at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a murky game she would be unable to quit, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter’s dramatic story of her double-agent father, exploring their relationship against the backdrop of ...
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Big City Beat

Original title: Suurlinna biit

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Ave Häkli, Antti Häkli

A story of a young Estonian trying to make in London’s music business.

Liis Hirvoja is a strong-minded young musician, who decided to move to London in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a singer. It takes lots of talent and work to make it in a big city. Liis has a minute tight schedule and her days are filled with never ending band rehearsals and long evening hours with kids, whose piano teacher Liis is. The film gives a really close look on Liis’s everyday life that is full of energy. It also throws in a question: why should a young Estonian leave her home country.
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Letters From Iceland

Original title: Kirjad Islandilt

2015 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat, Ruti Murusalu

In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved to Iceland and her previous life in Estonia remained unknown. Who was she, how and why did she get there?

Off the south coast of Iceland lie the Westman Islands. In 2006, Annika Tõnuri, a former soloist of the Estonian National Opera, one of the most talented artists of her generation, moved there to work as a piano and singing teacher. For the Estonian audience, Tõnuri disappeared quietly like a shadow. For the Icelanders her previous life in Estonia remained unknown and fairly incomprehensible. Who was she, how and why did she get there?
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Pastor Mõtsnik in St. Michael's Church in Uppsala, 1988

Title in Estonian: Pastor Mõtsnik Uppsala Mikaeli kirikus 1988

1988 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Pastor Harri Mõtsnik emigrated to Sweden from Estonia. Together with rural dean Voldemar Takkel he serves the congregation during the service at St. Michael's Church, Uppsala on October 23, 1988.

Pastor Harri Mõtsnik emigrated to Sweden from Estonia. Together with rural dean Voldemar Takkel he serves the congregation during the service at St. Michael's Church, Uppsala on October 23, 1988. Epistle read by Helga Nõu. Harri Mõtsnik holds a sermon. He talks about the situation in the Soviet Union later in the congregation house. As a former political prisoner, Mõtsnik also discusses the role of KGB influencing people's mentality.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

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Big City Beat

Letters From Iceland

Pastor Mõtsnik in St. Michael's Church in Uppsala, 1988

Nõukogude Eesti