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  • Goodbye Soviet Union
    Goodbye Soviet Union

    Original title: Hüvasti, NSVL

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Lauri Randla

    Lauri Randla’s first full length feature film is a comedy about the adventures of the Ingrian-Finnish Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

  • Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time
    Man Who Lived in Three-Dimensional Time

    Original title: Monoloogid 3D

    2011 | Documentary | Director: Arko Okk

    The documentary gives a minimalistic portrait about Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia, through the recollections by his contemporaries.

  • Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys
    Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri´s Film Journeys

    Original title: Tantsud Linnuteele. Pildistusi Lennart Meri filmirännakutelt

    2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaak Lõhmus

  • Time
    Time

    Original title of the film: Tundras muutusteta

    2008 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Dainis Klava

  • Juri Vella's World
    Juri Vella's World

    Original title: Juri Vella maailm

    2003 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    Liivo Niglas portrays Juri Vella, a Nenets of West Siberia, who has returned to reindeer herding in order to escape the expanding civilization.

  • Šamaan
    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.

  • Stories of the Livonians
    Stories of the Livonians

    Original title: Liivlaste lood

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Enn Säde

    This is not an ethnographic film about a Finno-Ugric tribe, but a documentary about the decline of a nation.

  • Teade parlamendile
    Teade parlamendile

    1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Valentin Kuik

  • The Sons of Torum
    The Sons of Torum

    Original title:Toorumi pojad

    1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Lennart Meri

    An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.

  • The Sounds of Kaleva
    The Sounds of Kaleva

    Original title: Kaleva hääled

    1986 | Documentary | Director: Lennart Meri

    Three-act documentary essay directed by Lennart Meri about memory and the historical cultural connections between the Finno-Ugric peoples.

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