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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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Day of Daisies

Original title: Karikakrapäev

2015 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Reisberg

The only excuse to miss a training is the death of your mother-in- law.

75 years ago young enthusiast Helju Mikkel (later known as Memm) brought together a group of students who were interested in folk arts. They started to study and perform old Estonian folk songs and dances and thus founded one of the oldest performance groups in Estonia: University of Tartu Folk Dance Ensemble. With the rise of interest in folk arts, the group became extremely popular during Soviet times, and founds it way to television, Olympic games etc. All these years it carried on both despite and thanks to the authorities. In "Day of Daisies" Helju Mikkel and Henn Tiivel (leaders of the ...
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Jaan Poska 10. märts 1920

2014 | Director: Tõnu Virve
Connected to the Monastery

Original title: Kloostriga seotud

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

Documentary about Father Jevgeni and the people around him in Pechory, Russia.

In front of the main gates of the Pskov-Caves Monastery there is a modest wooden St. Barbara Church where Father Jevgeni has served as a priest already for several decades. He baptizes, weds, blesses, remembers, hears confessions, calculates the congregation's money and manages the church. Jevgeni holds around two hundred funeral ceremonies a year. Death is one of the main characters in the documentary; however, another main subject of the film is life - the one lived by Jevgeni and the people who are connected to him and the church. There is nun Olga who has kept a hairdresser's profession ...
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Bronze night: The Russian riot in Tallinn

Title in Estonian: Pronksiöö: Vene mäss Tallinnas

2007 | Documentary | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Documentary about the two violent nights in central Tallinn in April 2007 after the relocation of the Soviet military monument in Tõnismägi, Estonia.

The monument of the Bronze Soldier in Tõnismägi, Tallinn denoted the symbol of occupation for half a century for Estonian people, but for the Russian-speaking local residents the monument marked the victory over fascism. In April 2007 the Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and the government of the Republic of Estonia decided to move the Bronze Soldier monument from central Tallinn to the Defence Forces military cemetery due to the fact that the statue had become a source of tension. As a result, a violent chaos bursted out in Tallinn. The documentary by Kanal 2 gives an overview about the events ...
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So long, Dracula!

Title in Estonian: Isake Dracula Eesti variant

1993 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves

Anatomy of totalitarism. Sarcastic retrospect to the darkest era in Estonian history during 20th century.

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his era when poets wrote him odes and poems but the bushwhackers sang: " ... and our aim is to kill Stalin". From the tribunes, Stalin was addressed as "the great friend of Estonian nation", nevertheless, for the majority of Estonian Stalin's name embodied the violence and lies that hit Estonia. This influenced all areas of life and no-one was left untouched by the terror. The documentary breakrs the myth about the joint resistance of Estonian nation to the foreign power and gives the warning that there is the possibility that similar things could happen again.
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Riigivanem I

1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar
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Candles to the Victims of Deportation near Tammsaare Statue in March, 1989

Title in Estonian: Küünlad küüditamisohvritele Tammsaare kuju juures märtsis 1989

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Candles are lit by the Tammsaare statue to commemorate the 40th anniversary of March deportation in the evening of March 25, 1989.

Candles are lit by the Tammsaare statue to commemorate the 40th anniversary of March deportation in the evening of March 25, 1989.
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Katyn Massacres 50th Anniversary

Title in Estonian: Katõni massimõrva 50. aastapäeva tähistamine Torontos

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Polish people in Canada, Toronto are commemorating the massacre of Katyn in 1939.

Event takes place at Toronto's city square where the expatriate Polish people in Canada commemorate the 50th anniversary of Katyn massacre. The Mayor of Toronto holds a speech and places flowers onto the monument created in 1980. View of the monument that depicts a granite block cleaved in two by a bold of lightning. Views of the parade of the Polish people, hundreds of war veterans wearing decorations, flags are waving. When the parade arrives at the square, Polish songs are sung. After the church minister's talk flowers and wreaths are placed on the foot of the monument. The mournful ...
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Puhja mälestusamba taasavamine

1988 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heikki Aasaru