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Funeral Diaries

Original title: Matusepäevikud

2019 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

The daily bread of ministers of small congregations is not sermons in the church; it is constant work with the old and the dying. A holy man who has been removed from his friends and peers and suddenly transplanted into another culture is often lonely and broken himself.

Three ministers have been invited from Estonia to serve the exile congregations in Toronto. By now, the main job of Jüri, Kalle and Mart is to bury the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. The documentary uses burials to talk about the disappearance of traditional funeral services and the profession of clergyman. The everyday life of the three protagonists tells a bigger story of church, faith and a fading émigré identity. The main characters have a modern and bright outlook on life and while practicing a past profession try to adopt to the ever-changing world where everything old and familiar slips ...
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Immortal

Original title in Estonian: Surematu

2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

The film, set in a Far-North industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanism that entices human beings to voluntarily become a resource to be used by the state. Can a person ever be free in a society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director’s subtle but demanding look reveals “the system” at work in the most benign-looking situations, in any moment of the everyday. What happens to people’s free will and self-determination in such conditions?
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Äraneetud linn

1996 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
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Kes tühistas Tartu rahu?

1989 | Documentary | Director: Marika Villa
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History Exam

Original title: Ajaloo eksam

1988 | Documentary | Director: Vello Kallaste

Documentary by Vello Kallaste about Hans Kruus, a historian and politician with colourful destiny, in the turmoil of historical events.

Hans Kruus (1891-1976) was a left-wing academician who had high-rank positions in state institutions after the war: he was the People's Commissar of the foreign affairs in the Estonian SSR and later the head of Academy of Sciences of Estonian SSR. His career was interrupted when he became ostrasized by Stalinist repression as a bourgeois nationalist in 1950. The filmmakers have used archival materials about the events of early days of Soviet order in Estonian SSR.
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Kaks kevadpäeva Toompeal (Loomeliitude ühispleenum)

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

1984 | Documentary | Director: Semjon Školnikov
Revolutsiooni sõdur

1977 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
The sky - so far and so close

Title in Estonian: Kauge ja lähedane taevas

1976 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Semjon Školnikov

Portrait documentary about Endel Puusepp, a polar and fighter pilot, hero of the Soviet Union.

Portrait documentary about Endel Puusepp, a polar and fighter pilot, hero of the Soviet Union, an active member of society and statesman. He recollects his memories about his pilot career and military action in the World War 2. Puusepp having a conversation with young paratroopers and aviators. The documetary has used photographs and archival footage.
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Their answer

Title in Estonian: Nende vastus

1976 | Documentary | Director: Ülo Tambek

Documentary about the contribution of the Estonian pilots in the Red Army in establishing and developing a Soviet aerodrome in 1920s-1930s.

Documentary about the contribution of the Estonian pilots in the Red Army in establishing and developing a Soviet aerodrome in 1920s-1930s. After the Great Patriotic War, the deputy of the head of Russian air fleet was Estonian August Kork and quite a lot of Estonian men were serving in the air force of the Red Army: Lavrenti Martinson, Georg Linno, brothers Jaan and Jakob Nusberg and many others. The documentary has used old photographs and archival materials. The film serves as a continuation of the films "The first five-pointed stars" and "The sky torn apart", directed by Ülo Tambek.
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