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The Ice That Still Supports Us

Original title: Jäätee veereel

2023 | Documentary | Director:

There's a crack on the same course!

Documentary reflects people's desire to be happy in a rapidly changing world, even as this world is breaking like spring ice. It’s a film about the ice road that erases borders between people. The events of the film take place on the Northern coast of Estonia, where the use of ice roads in winter is a centuries-old tradition. But it’s like a ghost road – no one knows when and where it will appear. The ice road is opened every year for cars and pedestrians. Though the ice seems to arise tensions, it melts something in people's hearts.
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Itelmen Stories

Original title: Itelmeeni lood

2010 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

Two Itelmen hunters commence a long journey in order to restore the ancient hunting technique and to go back to their roots.

A touching documentary by Liivo Niglas about a disappearing nation and language. Only three hundred years ago the Itelmen nation inhabitated the river valleys on Kamchatka Peninsula. Due to epidemics and colonial politices the number of Itelmens was drastically decreased; native language was spoken only in a few villages. Today, about 1400 people consider themselves as Itelmens. The main sources of subsistence for Itelmens is fishing and hunting fur-bearing animals. Until 20th century sables were hunted with a net. Two Itelmen hunters commence a long journey through former Itelmen settlement territories in order to restore the ancient hunting technique. Their ...
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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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The Return of The Musk Ox

2008 | Popular Sciences | Director: Vassili Sarana
Time

Original title of the film: Tundras muutusteta

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

1983 | Documentary | Director: Raul Tammet
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Kalapüük Võrtsjärvel

1980 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov
Vilsandi, mu kodu

1980 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Mark Soosaar
Nõukogude Eesti

1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu