Ivo Linna

Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions. But song was the weapon of choice when, between 1986 and 1991, Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. "The young people, without any political party, and without any politicians, just came together ... not only tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands ... to gather and to sing and to give this nation a new spirit," remarks Mart Laar, a Singing Revolution leader featured in the film and the first post-Soviet Prime Minister of Estonia. "This was the idea of the Singing Revolution." James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's "The Singing Revolution" tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom--and helped topple an empire along the way.

La Dernière Relique (Viimne reliikvia) est un film estonien de l'ère soviétique réalisé par Grigori Kromanov et sorti en 1969. Le film est adapté du roman Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad d'Eduard Bornhöhe (1893). Il est produit par les studios Tallinnfilm.

Sur la petite île de Sareema en Estonie, Kertu, 30 ans, vit chez ses parents sous l’emprise d’un père despotique. Lors d’une fête de village, elle se rapproche de Villu, un homme à la dérive. Cette rencontre va bouleverser sa vie…

Old Faithful City mascot Thomas, who for centuries have stood the Town Hall tower at the top, is gone. He has left his guard post to go to defend love. Old Thomas and his adventures in pursuing historians pass through the romantic Old Town and the New Town, and the song festival mood everywhere sends them to sing and dance

"Stolen Meeting" montre sans complaisance les conditions de détention des femmes tout en abordant la stigmatisation sociale qu’elles subissent une fois sorties de prison. Sur les écrans à la veille de la chute du Mur, l’esprit de la Perestroïka anime cette odyssée à travers la société d’une Union soviétique en bout de course.

When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help at a farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids.

A wide range of relatives and acquaintances have traveled to a funeral, and as is typical of Estonians, the sad event turns into a comical one as the evening develops. The primordial disputes that arise among the Estonians take on hyperbolic dimensions as events unfold, creating misunderstandings.