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How to Dance with Bears (2008)

Original title: Kuin karhut lähtevät

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Documentary Duration 48:08

How to Dance with Bears

A creative documentary by Paul-Anders Simma about the transforming relationship between human beings and bears in Lapland.
For many Fenno-Ugrian peoples the bear was a sacred being. The Sami of Scandinavia still regard the bear as the great grandfather and as the original source of their people. In the old times the most powerful shamans where seen as bears. Today the reality is different. The economy of the Sami`s is under stiff competitions from big businesses. To make a living in the rural areasi s hard. Under circumstances like this, how is it possible to co-exist, with a brother that sometimes ...

Director: Paul-Anders Simma

Keywords: life in Lapland | female bear with cubs | ethnography | wounded bear | hounds | bear | observing a bear | shooting a bear | bears | bear's cave | View all »

Photos and Galleries (3)

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Main Data

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Production Firm(s) Saami-Filmi OY (Finland)
Film Category Documentary, Anthropological
Text / Dialogue FILM_LANGUAGE_SAMI, Norwegian, Finnish
Subtitles English, German, French, Greek, Finnish, Estonian
Duration 48:08

Crew

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Producer Riho Västrik | Alf Hemming | Pascal Verroust | Tove Buvarp | Paul-Anders Simma
Director Paul-Anders Simma
Screenwriter Paul-Anders Simma
Cinematographer Knut Aas
Composer Tiit Kikas
Sound Designer Olger Bernadt | Horret Kuus | Toomas Vimb
Editor Thierry Simmonet
Writer of Adapted Work Jaan Kaplinski

First releases

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  • on television: 24.02.2011, TV3, Estonia
  • on television: 28.10.2008 (Dokumenttiprojekti), YLE TV2, Finland

Festivals, awards, nominations

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  • Participation, Cape Town & Winelands International Film Festival (South Africa), 2010, Programme: Baltic Focus

Partners and Sponsors

  • Kultuuriministeerium
  • EFI
  • Eesti Kultuurkapital
  • ERR
  • Rahvusarhiiv
  • BFM
  • Kinoliit
  • Eesti Filmiajakirjanike ühing
  • Tallinnfilm