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Whitsunday At Tammealuse

Original title: Suvisted Tammealusel

2015 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Rein Maran

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer.

Every year local people and their guests gather at Grove of Tammealuse in Samma Village, Viru County, for Whitsunday festivities to celebrate the beginning of summer. Whitsunday is known in folk memory as an important holiday for country folk and merry spring holiday that has been celebrated in Estonia through the ages to greet the arriving summer. Whitsunday (or Whitsun, Whit) involved many traditional preparatory activities - tidying the home and its surroundings, decorating with birches, going to the sauna. The celebration itself took place at the nearest sacred Grove, where a swing was set up and a bonfire made. ...
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Ivan's Day

Original title: Ivanipäev

2014 | Feature film, Short | Director: Ivan Pavljutškov

Short film directed by Ivan Pavlyuchkov telling about a perfect summer day, love and feeling alienated in his homeland.

Two young people in love, Kadri and Ivan, go to the countryside in order to celebrate the Midsummer's Eve and to meet Kadri's parents. However, things are not going that well for Ivan, a Russian man. The perfect summer day will take an unexpected turn when Ivan finds himself in an opposition with Kadri's family and himself. First he confronts with Kadri's father and later with all the people in the village. The Midsummer's Eve becomes a true nightmare for Ivan, also endangering Kadri and Ivan's relationship.
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When I Start ... Part One

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...I

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mati Viiul

Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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Discover The Rich Space Around The Corner

Original title: Avasta rikas nurgatagune kosmoses

2005 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

Mooste Artists's Guest Studio in Põlva county provides free accommodation for artists around the world - the only requirement for staying artists is to leave behind an artist's trace.

Artists around the world can stay for free in Mooste International Guest Studio in Põlva county, Estonia, on condition that the artist staying in the old manor will leave a creative trace in the local village life. Two different worlds meet in a small rural area: there are decayed buildings that once belonged to a collective farm next to the ensemble of manor buildings that have been preserved well and houses the well-equipped artist studio. The idealistic, bizarre world of artists is opposed by the rigidly conventional world view of the local people who prefer folk culture. Yet, the essence ...
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Cinema to Your Doorsteps

Original title: Kinobuss - kino koju kätte

2004 | Documentary, Making of | Director: Mikk Rand

In summers, filmmakers together with film students travel around Estonia by an old bus called "Kinobuss" with the purpose of restoring cinema traditions in Estonia.

Kinobuss is a revived form of mobile cinema. Young filmmakers and film students travel around Estonia in order to promote Estonian film and introduce contemporary means of the "moving picture" with the help of technological innovations. Through the protagonists' enthusiastic attitude towards life and sharing their knowledge on cinematography, the documentary observes the traveling of Kinobuss, the road-movie-ish story about the possibilities of cinema in a small territory such as Estonia where the importance of culture, and cinema culture, outweighs the one of economy.
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Alone on the Swing

Original title: Üksinda kiigel

2001 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Nelli and Elmar

Original title: Nelli ja Elmar

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Enn Säde
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Tuulealused II film

1996 | Documentary, Nature, Problem oriented | Director: Enn Säde
Midsummer's Eve in Altja in 1990

Title in Estonian: Jaanilaupäev Altjal 1990

1990 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Midsummer's Eve in the swing ground at Altja village in 1990. People are making music, sitting and listening. Young people are swinging with the village swing.

Midsummer's Eve in the swing ground at Altja village in 1990. People are making music, sitting and listening. Young people are swinging with the village swing.
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Valguse ja varju piiril

1990 | Documentary | Director: Toivo Elme