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Wild South: Sewing Machine

Original title: Metsi lõuna: Õmblusmasin

2024 | Documentary, | Director: Ülo Pikkov

About being human and remaining human even in the most hopeless moment.

A film about the town of Pechory (Petseri) and its people, told through the life story of my great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine box.
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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.

A film about an embassy of bygone times - a clothes menders in Nõmme which remains in business despite an onslaught of fast fashion. It offers an atmospheric gallery of a valuable way of life. Mrs Külli, Mrs Ulve, Mr Arnold, and their clients all play an important role in this cycle of life. Recycling, upcycling, sustainable fashion – these are the magic words of our modern times which slow down mass consumption and value repurposing. At the same time, repairing clothes has been commonplace in this meager land for hundreds of years.
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It All Happened In Võru

Original title (in Võro): Kõik sündü Võrol

2018 | Documentary | Director: Ruti Murusalu

An emotional documentary about life in a small Estonian town during 100 years.

The Republic of Estonia celebrates its 100th anniversary. During the century, the little town of Võru has lived through all the events that have rejoiced or shaken the entire country – gaining and regaining of independence, world wars and deportations, destructions and reconstructions. For people living in Võru, it is the centre of the universe. For them everything happens here. What makes this life worth living?
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Estonian village in Ghana

Title in Estonian: Eesti küla Ghanas

2016 | ETV/ERR Serials, Documentary, TV Serial | Director: Kalle Käesel

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.

Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut, also called the gold of African women, growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA. It depends on the continuity of the volunteers as well as the local villagers' contribution to the world of business whether the activities started in a small Ghanaian village would thrive and thus offer ...
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Until it’s worth it

Original title (in Estonian): "Kuniks kõik on seda väärt"

2014 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Keidi Mäe

Media student Keidi Mäe's short documentary about an Estonian leather designer Stella Soomlais, who owns a company and talks about entrepreneuring and leather design.

Leather designer Stella Soomlais tells about the designing in Estonia, entrepreneuring, its positive and negative sides though the rare proffession. It's an overview of an important topic - how to manage in the seemingly complicated design word and why is it necessary for all of us.
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Marina Kuvaitseva and the Lonely Women

Original title: Marina Kuvaitseva ja üksildased naised

2004 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arvo Iho

Marina Kuvaitseva, a proud and independent woman in Narva, leads a folklore ensemble where lonely and educated women sing.

Marina Kuvaitseva is a forty-year-old self-confident and independent woman who leads a folk music ensemble "Suprjaki" in Narva, Estonia. The singers of Marina's ensemble are lonely, educated women who do not want to live together with men who are less intelligent than themselves or who drink too much. People of Narva do not know who they are or where they belong to. Through folk music the women try to contact their roots, to entertain themselves and to find balance in their lives.
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Freedom or Death

Original title of the film "Vabadus või surm"

1995 | Documentary | Director: Artur Talvik
Autumn

Original title: Sügis

1990 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Arvo Kruusement

The folksy comedy is the last one in the trilogy based on the works by Oskar Luts directed by Arvo Kruusement. Previous films of the trilogy are "Summer" (released in 1976) and "Spring" (released in 1969). In "Autumn" the main focus is on Jorh Adniel Kiir, the tailor of Paunvere, and his misadventures while getting married and buying a farm.

The young people that we know from the films "Spring" and "Summer" have grown up and become upstanding farmers and members of society in the post-war independent Estonia. Only tailor Kiir has not found a wife yet. Fortunately, two young women of appropriate age for marriage move to Paunvere and this will encourage Kiir's marriage plans. His marriage proposal and marriage will be adventurous, full of comedy, intrigues and happiness.
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... and Women

Title in Estonian: .... ja naised

1989 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Heini Drui

Documentary about the problematic issues of the Soviet woman and her situation in the present day as well as the hopes for the better future.

Documentary directed by male cinematographers Heini Drui and Edvard Oja about the Soviet woman who might not gain her so-called bonus points in sexual life while being working and diligent.
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Lepo Mikko

1973 | Documentary | Director: Kaupo Klooren

Lepo Mikko, lecturer of the Estonian State Art Institute.

Painter Lepo Mikko in his studio, painting. As a lecturer at the Estonian State Art Institute, he supervises students in the class of portrait painting. Mikko's home in Pirita, the artist among his family and in his birth home in Viljandi county, Estonia.
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