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  • Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony
    Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony

    Original title: Gurt vös - külapalvus

    2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

  • Old Man Cartoon Movie
    Old Man Cartoon Movie

    Original title: Vanamehe Film

    2019 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa

    This cartoon movie is epic road movie where our heroes must face festival hippies, forest creeps, sawmill workers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside.

  • Tol mör vös - Joint Winter Ceremony
    Tol mör vös - Joint Winter Ceremony

    Original title: Tol mör vös - talvine ühispalvus

    2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

  • Gorilla Tourism
    Gorilla Tourism

    Title in Estonian: Gorillamajandus

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Märten Vaher

    Documentary about the daily life of mountain gorillas and the local forest guides who mediate the gorillas to tourists. There are both battles with poaching as well as extreme poverty common to Africa.

  • Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad
    Myanmar - tarkuse tuulajad

    2016 | Documentary | Director: Tarvo Mölder

  • Three Jewels
    Three Jewels

    Original title in Estonian: Kolm juveeli

    2016 | Documentary, Anthropological, Students film, TV Show | Director: Gerli Nõmm

    Documentary tells the story of three women from different generations who all have dedicated their lives to the most ancient and endangered Cambodian art forms – Smot chanting.

  • Time is Onion
    Time is Onion

    Original title (in Estonian): "Aeg on Sibul"

    2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Ekke Vasli

  • Final Days
    Final Days

    2006 | Documentary | Director: Kullar Viimne

  • Masing`s Landscape. Part I
    Masing`s Landscape. Part I

    Original title: Masingu maastikud: Kitsas rada keset metsi

    2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vallo Kepp

    The first part of the enlightening film trilogy "Masing's Landscapes" directed by Vallo Kepp - documentary that has been dedicated to Uku Masing's - the scholar, poet and original culture philosopher - childhood years and the period of development in his home village in Rapla county, Estonia.

  • On the Border of Two Worlds
    On the Border of Two Worlds

    Title in Estonian: Katõ ilma veere pääl

    1990 | Documentary | Director: Karl Kello

    Documentary directed by Karl Kello, Kuldar Sink and Aare Hõrn about the Seto people living on the border of two worlds, two cultures and two religions, the East and the West.

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