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Life beyond reality

Original title in Estonian: Elu üle reaalsuse piiri

2024 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Carmen Seljamaa

Struggling with the social norms created by society, the shaman Tõnu Talimaa went outside the normal world at the call of his heart.

The film introduces Tõnu Talimaa's journey to shamanism. How does he interact with the spirit world and nature, and what powers does it have? What does a shaman do for a living? What makes him different from an ordinary person? What do the close people think of his actions? Tõnu opens his door exclusively to the film crew and shows his life without any filter.
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Kulgemine

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Sergei Batrak

An observational documentary about the unique lifestyle and cultural heritage of Soomaa National Park, following a boat-master, a fisherman, and a Shaman.

The mystical and enchanting Soomaa National Park is home to a unique community with a way of life that is different from the bustling urban world. It captures the essence of this intriguing place, with its own pace, values, and a touch of mysticism. Through the film, we are transported to a world of wonder and simplicity, where time seems to slow down and nature reigns supreme.
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Christmas In The Jungle

Original title in Latvian: Ziemassvētki Džungļos

2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Jaak Kilmi

In an effort to avert the break-up of her family, Paula with her friend Akhim go to the jungle to find Santa Claus.

Paula has to leave behind the world she knows when her family moves to a new exotic place. While her new life is exciting, she feels the place and her whole family is missing Christmas spirit. Together with her friend Akhim they decide to go to the jungle to find Christmas shaman. Yet neither of them realise how dangerous this adventure will be.
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Mees, kes üllatas kõiki

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov
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Toys and Totems

Original title: Nukud ja tootemid

2017 | Documentary, Animation, Puppet | Director: Kadriann Kibus, Sergei Kibus

We play to evoke the ideal, and anything is possible.  Then we grow up and everything is impossible.

Some objects in our lives are more significant than others, be they ritual artifacts or childhood toys. Their life-stories intertwine with our own. Reflecting to and from their significant objects, children create reality, and so can grown-ups. The film, with its documentary stories, stop-motion animation and associative imagery, pays tribute to the humans’ bittersweet yearning for re-connection and transformation. Ritual objects and children’s toys can be equally infused with the power to change our perceived reality. Playing is a cosmological act that can make anything possible.
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Emajõgi

2015 | Students film, Short | Director: Priit Põhjala
Ghost Mountaineer

Original title: Must alpinist

2015 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Urmas Eero Liiv

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.

Urmas Eero Liiv’s feature film Ghost Mountaineer is a youth adventure film with elements of horror which is based on real life events which took place during the Soviet era.It tells the story of an Soviet Estonian student hiking group which gets caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle (Reimo Sagor), who becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip, disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero (Priit Pius) guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. ...
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Heart of a Wolf

Original title: Hundi süda sees

2015 | Documentary, Music Documentary | Director: Liina Paakspuu

Heart of A Wolf is a documentary about the nature of Nordic folk metal featuring Metsatöll from Estonia and Finntroll from Finland.

Hairy rockers mixing their metal sounds with traditional music instruments, pagan symbols and songs in their native language draw audiences from all corners of the world. The film focuses on Estonian band Metsatöll and their older Finnish brother Finntroll with the aim to get an insight into the nature of Nordic folk metal.
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Teade parlamendile

1989 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Valentin Kuik
A Life-Story

Original title: Elamise lugu

1980 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Peeter Tooming

Documentary by Peeter Toomingas about Siberian small nation and relationship between people and nature.

The Ket people (formerly known as Yenissey Ostyak people), a small nation in Siberia, forms only a fragment of a nation in Krasnoyarsk Krai in 1980s (with the population of about 1000 people). It is known that these people habitated the territories already during the Paleozoic era. About half of the Ket people have started to live in Kellog village-like districts and their connections to their roots (natural way of living, fishery, nature religion, Shamanism) are disappearing.
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