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  • New Life
    New Life

    Original title: Uus elu

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi

    A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion.

  • Hi, Rasma!
    Hi, Rasma!

    Original title: Hei, Rasma!

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Laila Pakalniņa

    Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian co-production documentary about the residents of the coastal villages of Northern Estonia, the ancient coastal law and folklore related to the Latvian steamboat Rasma. The documentary has optimistic and funny undertone while introducing specific episodes from cultural history.

  • Out of Fashion
    Out of Fashion

    Original title: Moest väljas

    2015 | Documentary | Director: Jaak Kilmi, Lennart Laberenz

  • The Charikar Girls
    The Charikar Girls

    Original title: Charikari tüdrukud

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea

    Documentary about the girls' school of Charikar town in Parwan province, Afghanistan and about their students and the students' mothers who tell their good and bad experiences of life.

  • Kalev's Boots
    Kalev's Boots

    Original title (in Estonian): "Kalevi saapad"

    2008 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Piret Jürman

    The course work of media students Suive Pahrt, Hanna Kannelmäe and Piret Jürman in the subject "Introduction to Television". The documentary tells about the alternative clothing culture through the eyes of a young girl and the role of bootmaker Kalev Eisel in it.

  • Brave New World
    Brave New World

    Original title: Hea uus ilm

    2006 | Documentary, Portrait, Problem oriented | Director: Jaan Tootsen

    It's a film about consumerism, about people, who have lost themselves in a world of things.

  • Videoringvaade "Eestimaa", oktooberl 1989
    Videoringvaade "Eestimaa", oktooberl 1989

    1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:

  • Lüpsjate õpetamine Türi sovhoostehnikumi kodumajandusklassis
    Lüpsjate õpetamine Türi sovhoostehnikumi kodumajandusklassis

    1983 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Semjon Školnikov

  • Haapsalu 700
    Haapsalu 700

    1979 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Elo Tust

  • Eesti NSV tööstus täitis IX viisaastaku ülesaanded enne tähtaega
    Eesti NSV tööstus täitis IX viisaastaku ülesaanded enne tähtaega

    1975 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Veljo Käsper

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