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  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Rodeo - Taming a Wild Country
    Rodeo - Taming a Wild Country

    Original title: Rodeo

    2018 | Documentary | Director: Raimo Jõerand, Kiur Aarma

    It is 1992 and the first free elections held in Estonia since World War II have to the surprise of all brought to power young and idealistic political forces. This is a story about gaining and losing trust, about the widening conflict between idealists and a rising economic elite, when a prime minister’s good options grow fewer by the day.

  • Living Together a la Sri Lanka
    Living Together a la Sri Lanka

    Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

    2016 | Documentary, TV Serial, ETV/ERR Serials | Director: Mati Kark

    The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

  • Ernst Jaakson's speech on 48th Session of the UN General Assembly
    Ernst Jaakson's speech on 48th Session of the UN General Assembly

    Title in Estonian: Ernst Jaaksoni kõne ÜRO Peaassamblee 48. istungjärgul

    1993 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

    Ernst Jaakson, permanent representative of Estonia in UN and the extraordinary and fully authorized representative of the Republic of Estonia in USA, holds a speech at the 48th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City in 1993.

  • Eesti Filmikroonika
    Eesti Filmikroonika

    1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Mihhail Dorovatovski

  • Pajusi kolhoosi Kalana suurfarm
    Pajusi kolhoosi Kalana suurfarm

    1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1963 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Noorus filmis
    Noorus filmis

    1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski, Mihhail Dorovatovski

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1958 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Nikolai Dolinski

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