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Young people spending time in a bar in Tallinn. Documentary with an artistic attempt to interpret the passage of time, the value of the moment.

A teenage boy named Vahur, who is from a seemingly upstanding family, becomes an accomplice to the vicious assault on an elderly man. Through a look into the boy's childhood and family, this film raises the question of how to become and remain a decent human being in the schizophrenic Soviet society where everyone was equal, but some were more equal than others.

Documentary about the jazz festival held in Tallinn in the spring of 1967. Numerous musicians and music collectives from both Soviet Union and abroad took part in the festival. Arrival and reception of the festival guests. Concerts in Kalev Sports Hall, among the performers there are vocal instrumental group led by G. Zarh, G.Tšoheli, music group "Crescendo", dixieland jazz group from Leningrad and many others.

An entertaining musical film, where a bright and colorful story presents a humorous, sometimes satirical modern struggle between good and evil.

Estonian primitive and untouched bogs and folk songs. Composer Lepo Sumera, singer Anne Maasik.

At the beginning of every spring, thousands of city residents rush towards their gardens and summer cottages in order to complete the spring cleaning, sowing and planting. Estonians have always been farmers, and even when living in a city they cannot resist the call of nature. Documetary by Vello Aruoja gives a great overview about the gardening culture in Estonia in the 1970s.

Gardener Arnold Treumuth's life in the summertime expresses the ups and downs of amateur gardeners during the 1970s in Estonia. The documentary is a continuation to Vello Aruoja's documentary "Gardener's Spring".

The First World War is over. A young soldier, having endured all its horrors, returns home to his mother, who has been anxiously awaiting his arrival. But the homecoming is far from joyful. The atmosphere of war has left fatal scars on the minds and souls of those who lived through it...

Livonians are among the smallest Finno-Ugric nations still existing today. They are the closest kindred people to Estonians and Livonian language is the closest one to Estonian language. Currently, there are only a few dozens of speakers of Livonian language left and even for them Livonian is not their native tongue. However, there are about 200 people who consider themselves as Livonians; most of them live in Riga, Ventspils and Kūolka, Latvia. Livonian coast in Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian) once had twelve villages inhabited by Livonian people - now there is no one left there who would fluently speak the language. Only a few people can speak the story of their small nation in their own native language. The documentary has been filmed in 1988 and 1990 in Livonian villages on Courland peninsula and in Riga, Latvia. Archival materials dating back to the years of 1940 and 1966 have been also used in the film.

A mosaic city portrait of Tartu, Estonia.

A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.

The people of Suislepa. A humanist and warm poetic film about a generation, which will not show tiredness or old age in conducting their work. People who find wonder in the everyday, who take care in deepening their relationships with other people or the nature, who see the world as it is and to love it.

About the adventures of three funny little men.

A gardener won't rest even when the snow covers the ground and there are frozen flowers on the window glass. Now it is time to take part in the meetings and lectures held by the gardening cooperative as well as purchase new tools for the upcoming season. And of course one has to keep checking the gardening patch. Winter is an important time for a gardener to prepare for spring. The film serves as a continuation to TV films "Gardener's Spring", "Gardener's Summer" and "Gardener's Autumn".

Spring has turned into autumn, and the beauty and yield of the garden have changed.