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  • Fire Speaks
    Fire Speaks

    Original title: Tule sõnumid

    2024 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Kairi Kivirähk

    A documentary about the Mayan calendar, fire ceremonies, and the story of how building bridges between cultures can revive ancient wisdom and reconnect people with their ancestral knowledge.

  • Tukdam: Between Worlds
    Tukdam: Between Worlds

    2022 | Documentary | Director: Donagh Coleman

    First document about a Tibetan meditation that preserves the body from days to weeks after traditionally considered death.

  • Härmävidäjä
    Härmävidäjä

    2021 | Other categories | Director: Edina Csüllög

    Young wannabe seto boy does not know his mother tongue and gets into trouble ordering the food in a local restaurant.

  • Kihnu neiu
    Kihnu neiu

    2021 | Other categories | Director:

  • Life of Ivanna
    Life of Ivanna

    Original title in Russian: Жизнь Иванны Яптунэ

    2021 | Documentary | Director: Renato Borrayo Serrano

    From the harsh, nomadic life on the tundra to an uncertain future with five children. Four years in the life of a strong and charismatic woman as vital, physical film art.

  • Eesti nafta
    Eesti nafta

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Liina Särkinen

    A Mother and daughter, searching for an answer to what could be the fuel for life in a small country Estonia. One of them grows Nettle, the other one is a famous youtuber.

  • Kuidas muru kasvab
    Kuidas muru kasvab

    2020 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Anti Naulainen

  • The Last Ones
    The Last Ones

    2020 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Veiko Õunpuu

    A car crash in slow motion, a love letter to a disappearing world.

  • Celebration
    Celebration

    Original title: Prazdnik

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Vladimir Loginov

    For nearly twenty years now one small Estonian town has organised a Ukrainian-themed fair, during which a beauty contest is held. This observational film explores whether beauty can be an object of competition, and how we should understand the phenomenon of beauty contests in the modern day.

  • Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony
    Gurt Vös - Village Prayer Ceremony

    Original title: Gurt vös - külapalvus

    2019 | Documentary, Anthropological | Director: Liivo Niglas

    An Ethnographic film about the traditional sacrificial rite of the Udmurts in Bashkortostan at village group level.

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