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Good Luck

Original title: Heakskiit

2017 | Documentary | Director: Riho Västrik

The Estonian film group needed help from higher forces in Buryatia.

In March 2014 there were shootings of a movie Ghost Mountaineer by Urmas E. Liiv in Buryatia, 5000 km away from Estonia. The crew enjoyed beautiful Siberian nature, but could not roll the camera for the time being... After 4 days of waiting producer visited a shaman as was strongly recommended by local advisors.
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Christ Lives in Siberia

Original title: Kristus elab Siberis

2015 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Arbo Tammiksaar, Jaak Kilmi

Director Arbo Tammiksaar together with his family moved to live in a Vissarions' village in Siberia for a year, in order to follow the daily life of the religious community.

The charismatic religious leader Vissarion lives in an isolated Siberian village and calls himself Christ who has reborn. A religious sect consisting of thousands of followers has gathered around him, including Dmitri the bellringer and his wife Sveta who moved to the community with her three children from Saint Petersburg a few years ago. Magomed, the biological father of the children, writes a complaint letter to the administration of the President of Russia and insists that his children should be given back to him. Director Arbo Tammiksaar with his family moved to the Vissarions' village for a year. He followed ...
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Delta

2011 | Nature, Documentary | Director: Vassili Sarana
Journey to the Source of Lena

Original title of the film: Suur jõgi, 1: Retk Leena lättele

2010 | Nature, Documentary | Director: Vassili Sarana
BAM – Railroad to Nowhere

Original title: BAM

2008 | Documentary | Director: Jouni Hiltunen

Documentary by Finnish director Jouni Hiltunen about the enthusiasm, hopes and reality of railway constructors in Baikal-Amur district.

In 1974, Leonid Brezhnev, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of USSR, called for the Soviet youth to construct the 3500-kilometre-long arterial railway including a city and 200 stations in Baikal-Amur district, Russia (BAM) in order to use the immense amount of mineral resources of the area. Thousands of young people, including Estonians, went to work in Siberia, while believing in Brezhnev's idea. The railway was being constructed simultaneously from both ends and the top event was planned to be when the ends would finally meet. Brezhnev died in 1982 and BAM was not even close to completion. It was ...
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Alchemist of Coal - A Film around Jaan Kross

Original title: Söerikastaja

2004 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Peeter Simm
Juri Vella's World

Original title: Juri Vella maailm

2003 | Anthropological, Documentary | 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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Siberi õpetaja

2001 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Heini Drui
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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Hääled

1996 | Documentary | Director: Valentin Kuik
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