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Wedding Game

Original title: Pulmamäng

2015 | Other types of animation, Animation | Director: Andres Tenusaar, Malle Valli, Marili Sokk

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale.

An ethno-surreal film based on an Estonian folk tale which uses different handicraft and animation techniques and has so many authors that it could be considered folkloric itself.
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The Pearlman

Original title: Pärlimees

2006 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Rao Heidmets

A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.

A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
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Miina

2003 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Õnne Luha

Documentary depicts one day in a schoolgirl Miina's life: we see her in her home farm near the forest, at her school and at a party.

Miina is a fifteen-year-old girl living in Obinitsa village. She lives with her big family in a small forest farm and goes to a small school that will be probably soon closed. The kind of a school where students won't go for a secret smoke round the corner; where there are no drug dealers; and where the teachers are friendly yet strict. Miina doesn't want to stay to her home village - there is no work and she feels bored. The documentary follows her daily life.
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Šamaan

1997 | Anthropological, Documentary | 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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Deserters

Title in Estonian: Väekargajad

1993 | Short, Feature film | Director: Talvo Pabut

Film about the choices made in the name of continuation of life during the Great Northern War in Estonia plundered by plague.

Estonian villages have become almost deserted as a result of plague and the Great Northern War. However, one woman has survived in a farm. Two starving deserters arrive to her farm – a Swede from the King Carl's army and an Estonian from the Imperial Russian army. There is not enough food for two men in the house so one has to leave, but which one? The woman has to make the decision.
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Brides of Death

Original title: Surmamõrsjad

1990 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Tauno Kivihall

It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp.

Based on a ballady by an Estonian poet Marie Under. It's a tragical-lyrical puppet film about brides who drown themselves in a swamp, because enemies have killed their fiance's and devastated their land. The action of the film is played in controversary sequence - the re-meeting with their fiance's in the finale of the film acquires meaning of resurrection.
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Christmas in Siimu Farm

Title in Estonian: Jõulud Siimu talus

1988 | Documentary | Director: Vallo Kepp

Estonian christmas traditions, indoor games at the New Year's Eve and activities at the beginning of the new year.

Playful documentary introduces Estonian Christmas traditions, indoor games at the New Year's Eve and activities at the beginning of the new year. The filmmakers visit Siimu farm in Kinksi village, Lääne county, Estonia. Jaan Kreek, the farm owner; Adeele Laasi, the farm owner's wife, the traditional characters (Christmas goat and bears) of the New Year's Eve. Music group "Leigarid", conducted by Kristjan Torop and Kalev Järvela and the schoolchildren of Tallinn 36th Secondary School also take part in the performance.
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The story of Moon

Title in Estonian: Kuulugu

1984 | Other categories, Documentary | Director: Elo Tust

The Moon and the folk wisdom and beliefs related to it.

The ancient monthly calendar of old Estonians and the related beliefs and traditions. The documentary combines archival film episodes and the staged episodes where one can see the peasants working and in their everyday life. Old wisdom and teachings about what kind of work to do during the waning Moon and the increscent Moon.
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Tähemõrsja

1984 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Kalju Kivi
Välek Vibulane

1980 | Puppet, Animation | Director: Heino Pars