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  • The Bronze Night
    The Bronze Night

    2023 | Students film, Short | Director: Sergei Batrak

    During the massive "Bronze Night" protests in 2007, AIVAR, an Estonian bar owner, stays at his property to protect it from looters , when a knock on the door changes everything.

  • Border Youth
    Border Youth

    Original title: Noored piiril

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

  • Heinz Valk
    Heinz Valk

    2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kristjan Svirgsden

    Portrait documentary by Kristjan Svirgsden about Heinz Valk, artist and social activist.

  • Legacy
    Legacy

    Original title: Pärand

    2011 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Eeva Jäntti

    The documentary produced in collaboration between Estonia and Finland tells about Sillamäe, a former strictly classified mining town in East-Viru county. The town "inherited" the depository of radioactive waste during the Soviet time.

  • Alyosha
    Alyosha

    Original title: Aljoša

    2008 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Meelis Muhu

    Meelis Muhu's documentary tells the story of the Soviet monument - the Bronze Soldier called Alyosha that was located in central Tallinn. The events around the monument culminated due to the dislocation of the monument in April 2007 and the following events called the Bronze Night when massive rioting and civil disorder took place on the streets of Tallinn.

  • Blood
    Blood

    2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Jüri Muttika

    The course work of film master's student Jüri Muttika, who, together with screenwriter Piret Sammel, has directed a humorous, but at the same time set in real Estonian society, story about a conscript serving time in the Estonian Defense Forces and his Russian bride, who urgently needs a blood transfusion from her loved one to save the life of her brother injured in the riots, based on the events that became known as Bronze Night.

  • Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn
    Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

    Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

    2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

    Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

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