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Fish On!

Original title: Kalarahvas

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlov, Frode Storaas

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States.

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance. The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story ...
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Kingdom of the Elk

Title in Estonian: Põdra kuningriik

2007 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary journey directed by Rein Maran in the hidden world of the elks. The documentary observes the life of these peaceful wild animals and their relationship with other animals and people.

Elk is one of the biggest and grandest wild animals in Estonian forests who has lived here already for eleven thousand years. When we get a glimpse of his enimal through a car window it won't tell us anything about the actual life of the elk, about its peaceful and grand state in its natural environment. The documentary journey travels through the kingdom of the elk where life flows peacefully in the rhythm that has been set since the ancient times. The spectator will see the perennial circle of the largest mammal of Estonian forests during one hour of ...
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Making Rain

Original title: Vihma tegemine

2007 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas, Frode Storaas

The Vumba Hills in central Mozambique, close to the Zimbabwe border, are the kingdom of Mambo (Chief) Chirara. The Mambo’s leading position is acknowledged by the government, and in addition to being the region's most important spiritual leader, the Mambo has the right to hold court cases that deal with minor crimes, problems involving spirits and domestic affairs. He is assisted by several subchiefs and ritual leaders. In the northernmost corner of the Mambo’s kingdom, Mbuya Gondo, an over 70-years-old woman, is a spiritual medium. She often holds ceremonies at a well-known rock drawing site. Mambo Chirara is not pleased ...
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Balance between Man and Nature

Original title: Inimese ja looduse tasakaal

2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

The project of protecting and restoring endangered species in North-West of Estonia was the initiative of European Union Life-Nature Programme.

Silma landscape protection area in North-West of Estonia administers three territories under protection: Osmussaare landscape protection area, Silma ecological reserve and Vormsi landscape protection. The objective of EU's Life-Nature Programme is to restore and preserve half-natural coastal environments that provide living conditions for endangered migratory birds. The documentary focuses on the collaboration with local people related to the abovementioned programme.
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Meetings in Galway

Original title: Hääl maa ja taeva vahel

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Mark Soosaar

Portrait documentary by Mark Soosaar about singer Siiri Sisask.

Mongolian mountains echo back the way it invites the gods down to Earth. Shepherds ride by on their horses and their songs also echo back. Singer Siiri Sisask is looking for the truth in the East. Church of the Holy Mother of God in Paris. Flickering sea of candles for those who have passed away. Siiri is looking for the truth in the West. The sun is going down above Estonia, the sea is turning crimson. Siiri is in Vääna beach with a little Italian song. The singer is seeking truth in her childhood land. Film director Mark Soosaar is ...
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The Border of Human

Original title: Inemiste piir

2005 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Aivo Spitsonok, Vahur Laiapea

How people live in the intersection of the borders of Estonia, Latvia and Russia?

There is one point where the borders of the Republic of Estonia, Republic of Latvia and Russian Federation meet. This is where the filmmakers start their journey. The residents of the villages by the state border get along well, on both sides of the border people have only kind words for their neighbours. Estonians, Latvians, Russians talk about their lives: Estonians living in Estonia, those living in Latvia, those living in the intersection of the state borders, Russians who can speak both Latvian and Estonian, residents of Mehka area, Estonians living in Korneti village in Latvia and Estonians living in ...
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Adventure High

2004 | Documentary | Director: Liivo Niglas

Five young men - including the filmmaker - take a four-month break from their responsible adult lives to travel by bicycle from Mongolia to Nepal hoping to experience old-fashioned travel adventures. Their journey leads them through diverse landscapes and harsh conditions (the Gobi Desert where water and roads are equally difficult to find; the flooded dirt roads and landslides caused by heavy rain in the Himalayan mountains). They are exposed to diverse cultures and meet fascinating people (Mongolian nomads, Buddhist pilgrims, yak herders in the Himalayas). As relationship dynamics develop and change within the group, the five travelers very different ...
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Terra Maritima

Original title: Terra Maritima

2001 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

The basis for the dynamic community of the European Union is the harmonization of certain rules. This applies to preservation of nature as well, and thus we hear more and more about the mysterious Natura 2000. Natura 2000 is a Europe-wide network of nature preserves, consisting of bird preserves and nature preserves. A large part of the existing preserves in Estonia fit surprisingly easily into Natura 2000. The film shows the types of habitats in western Estonia, because it was here that the pilot project for Natura 2000 was launched. This land is many thousands of years younger than the inland – even now the earth’s crust is rising here and the land being born from the ocean – Terra Maritima – has a thousand faces. In addition to the coastline, the film introduces various types of meadows - all very valuable habitats.
Šamaan

1997 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

„The Shaman“ was filmed on July 16, 1977 in the northernmost coast of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam River, simultaneously with the shooting of the documentary „The Winds of the Milky Way“. The Nganasan shaman Demnime (1913 ̶1980) was 64 years old at the time. The documentary about Demnime's incantation ritual was completed 20 years later.
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Elu sinu ümber

1995 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran
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