"Estonian Documentary Days" A festival presenting seven award-winning films at C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 20th & 21st February 2015

Time : 
20th February : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 20-02-2015 18:30:00 20-02-2015 20:10:00 68 Estonian Documentary Days Event Page : http://goo.gl/BPnXcs C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY
21st February : 12:00 pm onwards  Add to Calendar 21-02-2015 12:00:00 21-02-2015 19:50:00 68 Estonian Documentary Days Event Page : http://goo.gl/BPnXcs C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Venue : C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : Estonian Documentary Days.

A festival presenting seven award-winning films which paint a colourful portrait of the Estonian people who, despite all odds, have resisted multiple conquests and kept their freedom. Organised in collaboration with Embassy of Estonia and Estonian Film Institute

20th February : 6:30 pm
Ash and Money 
In March 2010, the Estonian theatre NO99 took a decision to expose the corrupt practices of Estonian politics in a provocative way: it announced it would start a new political party, Unified Estonia. The film follows the progress of this unique project which also won international recognition
Duration : 100 mins
Subtitles : English 
Year : 2013
Directors : Ene-Liis Semper, Tiit Ojasoo, Rein Kotov

21st February : 12:00 noon onwards
Evald’s Acre 
This contemporary film recounts the courage and pain of Emmi and Evald Saag who survived the occupation of their native land, first by the Soviets, then by the Nazis, then again by the Soviets, and finally lived to see Estonia a free and independent nation again. A sensitive and restrained study told with humour
Duration : 45 mins
Subtitles : English 
Director : Kersti Uibo

Screening will be followed by : A talk on Poetic Film Genre
Speaker : Kersti Uibo

At 2:30 pm

511 Best Photos of Mars
The masterpiece of 1960s Estonian documentary combines hidden camera images of people in Talllinn’s cafes with music from the Beatles and G.F. Handel.
Duration : 9 mins
Director : Andres Sööt
Year : 1968

St John’s Day
Film about the most important Estonian national holiday – the summer solstice, an ancient celebration, when bonfires are lit and parties held all over the country.
Duration : 14 mins
Director : Andres Sööt
Year : 1978

The Winds of the Milky Way
This film travels enormous distances of space and time as it visits various Finno-Ugric peoples and observes their life-styles and some of their work-day customs and ancient rituals, their myths and history and their folk songs.
Duration : 55 mins.
Subtitles : English 

Director: Lennart Meri

Year : 1977

At 4:30 pm

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has, for the third year running, been given the title of the “world’s most performed living composer”. Director Dorian Supin’s intimately close film succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt’s musical thinking and his work opens a door on the inner world of one of the most spiritually intense composers of our time.
Duration : 87 mins.
Subtitles : English  
Director: Dorian Supin
Year : 2002

At 6:30 pm 
Disco and Atomic War 
This witty, charming and provocative film recounts how in the mid 1980’s, the nation of Estonia still lay firmly in the grip of the Soviet Union, and the repressive authorities controlled virtually all aspects of Estonian life. Rock and roll was but a rumour and the only television shows on the air were dreary propaganda, but one day everything changed…
Duration : 80 mins.
Subtitles : English 
Directors : Jaak Kilmi, Kiur Aarma
Year : 2009

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