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Kihnu poisid ning tüdrukud

2019 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director:
Bridges Of Time

Original title: Ajasillad

2018 | Documentary | Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede

"Look back with me and maybe you will find out something new about documentary cinema, which is nothing else but life after death." Herz Frank.

Meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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A Letter from Ruhnu

Original title: Kiri Ruhnust

2009 | Documentary | Director: Heilika Pikkov

A young woman becomes a school teacher and discovers life in a small island of Ruhnu.

Young woman Kadri becomes s a teacher in an island of Ruhnu that is a small, isolated community. Her main duty is to teach the youngest children in the first and second grade - there are only two schoolchildren in these classes. At the same time, Kadri tries to get used to the island's life and to understand the strange traditions and odd behaviour of the local people living in isolated community.
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Don´t Kill the School, Please!

Original title: Ärge pange kooli kinni

2000 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Ago Ruus

The Metsküla Elementary School is a classic example of the joys and problems of the current education system. Today, there are 22 students and 3 teachers here. And yet, the threat of closure looms over this school as well. If the school dies – the town will die with it.

It's the first schoolday of the 21st century in Metsküla Primary School in Matsalu, Lihula parish. There are 22 pupils in six different grades and 3 teachers in the school. The school functions well, both teachers and pupils are happy with it. However, the school is facing the prospect to be shut down soon. Metsküla Primary School is more or less a typical example of today's basic school education together with its ups and downs. In the swirl of 1970s fast economic growth the school was back then shut down - now the 130-year-old school has been brought back to ...
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Peldik

1991 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Peeter Tooming
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Heidikud

1987 | Problem oriented, Documentary | Director: Mati-Jüri Põldre
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Kuuvikerkaar

1982 | Documentary | Director: Peep Puks
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Nüüdisküla majandusliku ja sotsiaalse arengu päevaprobleemidest

1981 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Heli Speek
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Fair country

Title in Estonia: Õiglane maa

1978 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Peeter Tooming

The first year of activity of the agricultural enterprise of Viljandi district, Estonia.

Overview of the first years of activity of the agricultural enterprise of Viljandi district, Estonia. The documentary also views the unique sides of the agricultural enterprise and its perspectives, tendencies and developmental processes emerging in modern rural life. Activities, daily life and problems of various enterprises and local people.
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