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Life is a Flower

Original title: Elu on lill

2010 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Two grand old masters, artists Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, are recording the beauty of a naked woman.

Documentary about the meeting between two grand masters, artist Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, during which they portrait a young model and have a discussion about life and art. 94-year-old Okas and 82-year old Suur are full of life and creative artists who get still inspired from the beauty of a woman. The two old artists run around the young naked woman as representing a philosophical vignette about the flourishing and withering of life, an existential etude with erotic attachments.
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Man from the City of Masters

Original title: Mees meistrite linnast

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary portrait by Peeter Brambat about Ants VIidalepp, an elderly painter and professor emeritus.

Professional artist Ants Viidalepp (1921-2012) was 85 at the time of filming the documentary. He is known for younger generations mostly because of his books of recollections. At his exhibition "Fifty Viidalepps" held in Viinistu Art Museum in the spring of 2006, the artist showed his grotesque, folksy small-format oil paintings. Viidalepp's works often depict cartoonish funny stories where the characters wear festive clothes from the early 20th century whil looking simple-minded and happy. Every picture has its own strange everyday fabula just like the artist's endless recollective stories that he tells to accompany his work.
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Still Life with Wife

Original title: Vaikelu naisega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

An unusual couple lives in an urban backwater. Married now for over a quarter of a century, their endless sniping never intensifies into the major quarrel that would resolve everything. This constant tension helps the man to paint and gives the woman a reason for living.
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Kursi School

Original title: Kursi koolkond

2005 | Documentary, Overviews | Director: Rein Raamat, Peeter Brambat

Documentary about an original artist grouping Kursi School that was founded in Tartu in 1988.

Kursi School that was founded in Tartu in 1988 is a special artist grouping in the sense that the member of the grouping are friends and the school cannot be defined by certain style or ideology. Despite the fact, the group has stayed together and held at least one group exhibition every year. The documentary focuses on introducing the various artist credos of the grouping that includes the following artists: Ilmar Kruusamäe, Andrus Kasemaa, Peeter Allik, Albert Gulk, Priit Pangsepp, Imat Suumann, Marko Mäetamm, Reiu Tüür.
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Spider Web

Original title: Ämblikulõng

2000 | Feature film, Short | Director: Britt Urbla-Keller

The only good deed that the Criminal has commited in his life can save him from the sufferings of the underworld: everything will be in his own and Lord's hands.

The experimental film based on a story by Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is set on a theatre stage where Lord, Criminal and Spiderwoman face their temptations, desires and sufferings.
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The Different Reality of Jaan Elken

Original title: Jaan Elkeni teistmoodi tegelikkus

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat introduces the creative world of artist Jaan Elken, one of the most interesting lyrical abstractionist painter in Estonia, through his artist's confessions and the analysis of an art historian.

The main subject in Jaan Elken's (b. 1954, painter and professor of the painting department at the University of Tartu) work is modern urban environment; hyperrealistic motifs have been powerfully replaced by expressive abstract painting style. Elken's work belongs to several art collections as well as museum collections both in Estonia and abroad; it has been awarded with several prizes. His artwork is introduced through exhibitions held in 1997-1999, with the comments by art historian Harry Liivrand.
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Tallinn Pedagogical Institute

Title in Estonian: Eduard Vilde nimeline Tallinna Pedagoogiline Instituut

1984 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Uno Kukk

Studying opportunities in Tallinn Pedagogical Institute.

What kind of challenges and opportunities do the young students of pedagogy face before the graduation diploma and flowers? During fifteen minutes, a tour is taken in Tallinn Pedagogigal Institute and its new offices, equipped with the most innovative technology. The film depicts students in the class. Voiceover is saying that the school reform has made the teacher's profession more prestigious.
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Jaan Oad

1982 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar

The life and work of naivist artist Jaan Oad who was born in Kihnu island and now lives in Canada.

In 1981 Mark Soosaar went to Toronto in order to document sailor and amateur painter Jaan Oad (1899-1984) who was born in Kihnu island, Estonia. Oad started painting only after having fled from Estonia. He paints memories about Kihnu island. Oad says that the history of Kihnu has to be documented. Daily life of Kihnu island becomes alive in his paintings: including fishing and sealery, shipbuilding and carrying stones, blacksmithing and smuggling spirit. Filmmakers talk to Oad in his home in Canada whereas the winter scenes of Kihnu island Jutuajamine Oadi Kanada kodus vaheldub kaadritega talvisest Kihnust, kus Oadi ...
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Nõukogude Eesti

1947 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Saveli Savenko