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Instinct

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Martin Himbek
Spiders 4500 years ago

Original title in Estonian: Ämblikud 4500 aastat tagasi

2011 | Students film, Short | Director: Jaan Tätte jr
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How to Dance with Bears

Original title: Kuin karhut lähtevät

2008 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Paul-Anders Simma

Documentary about the transforming relationship between human beings and bears in Lapland.

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 ...
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Time

Original title of the film: Tundras muutusteta

2008 | Documentary, Nature, Anthropological | Director: Dainis Klava
In the Footsteps of Middendorff

Original title: Middendorffi jälgedes

2006 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo, Riho Västrik

Estonian filmmakers with the director of the documentary, Riho Västrik, repeated Alexander Theodor von Middendorff's expedition to the less known areas in Siberia.

Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (1815 – 1894), Russian scientist of Baltic German and Estonian origin, organized a scientific expedition to Taymyr Peninsula, the Northern end of Eurasia in 1842-1845. Century and a half later a group of Estonian scientists took the same route. The filmmakers faced the crisp arctic tundra with thousands of birds and wild reindeers and met the native people whose forefathers once gave directions to Middendorff in order to reach the Arctic Ocean.
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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.

Nenets Juri Vella is a social activist and writer living in West Siberia who wants to escape the attack of Western civilization and has created his own world. Ten years ago he left his village to go to taiga and become a reindeer breeder. He founded a reindeer farm including both a winter and summer camp and started to live there together with his oldest daughter's family. In order to save his grandchildren from the social and psychic problems, Juri has also established a school in the winter camp where two teachers work with five children.
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The Brigade

Original title: Brigaad

2000 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

This film takes place in the West-Siberian Arctic; in the windy tundra of the Jamal Peninsula.

This film takes place in the West-Siberian Arctic in the windy tundra of the Jamal Peninsula. The camera follows a group of indigenous migratory herders – the 7th brigade of the Jar-Sale sovkhoz – during the reindeer calving period. This is a hectic and laborious time for these herdsmen; often the survival of the newborn calves depends on their actions. The threats to the traditional ways of these indigenous people also become apparent. The film is given a rhythm by the brigade’s constant migration from one herding ground to the next.
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Vormsi päevad

1990 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Olav Kruus
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Teade parlamendile

1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Valentin Kuik
Põhjapõdramängud

1985 | Documentary | Director: Virve Koppel
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