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Goodbye Soviet Union

Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union. Johannes is born into an eccentric family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, snappy Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate, Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished… all the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take ...
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Celebration

Original title: Prazdnik

2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called "Sorochinsky Fair"; after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. The film is structured like a work of literature, being made up of a number of interconnected stories. The full variety of the fair and beauty contest is presented from different angles and viewpoints: that of the festival organisers; the actor playing Gogol; the instructor from the local beauty school; the ...
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A Bad Scene: Early Spring

Original title in Estonian: Varakevad

2017 | Feature film, Short | Director: Rain Tolk, Gustaf Boman Bränngård

When 15 year old Sander falls prey to an almost fatal bad joke, he has to decide whether to try and break away from his determined social status, or conform and accept his role in the group.

"A Bad Scene" is a film compilation, which speaks about the darker currents hiding in human relationships, situations, which are practically inescapable, in five different ways. Harassment, mental violence, manipulation, cornering – these topics are current in both politics as well as private sphere. In these nightmarish confrontations, dramatics, mysticism as well as twisted comedy can be found. The second short film is "Early Spring". This is not a cool youth movie about frolicking teenagers. It's a sociopsychological challenge to incite a discussion about group dynamics, conformism, and social roles that are largely shaped and confirmed in teenage years. Hopefully there ...
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Chasing Ponies

Original title: Ameerika suvi

2016 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rain Rannu

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States.

This road movie is about life. It is loosely based on the adventures of real Eastern European university students selling books door to door in United States. This movie touches us all, as summer work in the US has become something of a phenomenon among students in Europe - everyone knows someone who has spent a summer in USA - some experiences good, some not so good, each a story in it's own right. This movie is your chance to experience their adventures firsthand. Without sacrificing 3 months of your life. Filming took place in September 2015. It was all ...
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Split

Original title (in Estonian): "Üksi kaks"

2010 | Students film, Short | Director: Eik Tammemäe

The story about a boy who does not have any friends. He has problems on the street, at school and at home. To escape the pressures of reality and depressive, he presents himself for a positive world in which his second, I can cope with everything, and is popular. Gradually, however, sits in stark reality and the fantasy world is intensifying. Soon the boy can no longer understand what is reality and what is fantasy. Social pressure, it will seamlessly emotional limbo. Misunderstandings, he goes public with a weapon of revenge against all injustice. He raises the gun and kills ...
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Tootmiskoondises Eesti Fosforiit

1984 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
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Nõukogude Eesti

1959 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov
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Oru Housewives Training School

Original title: Oru Kodumajanduskool

1939 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The daily life of Oru Housewives Training School in 1939.

The daily life of Oru Housewives Training School in 1939. Two young women are ironing sheets with the wringer and electric iron; the linen will be placed in the cupboard later. Carrying water with the horse. Cultivating the ground with the two-horse harness. Young women learning, the teacher is reading. Headmaster Linda Jalvendi is leading the teachers' meeting. Visitors of the school, Aleksander Lellep among others. Views of Toila-Oru, bridge of the River Toila. VIews of the Presidential residence. The girls exit the schoolhouse and walk in a row to work. Students are raking hay and building haystacks. Students are ...
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Talve

1933 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: