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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.

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

2019 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Hardi Volmer
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Võidupäeva ootus Siberi Haida külas

2013 | Observation, Documentary | Director: Vahur Laiapea
Ambassador of Setomaa

2012 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Mirjam Matiisen

On either side of a disputed and un-ratified border between Estonia and Russia lies the land of the Seto people, Setomaa (meaning "Land of Wars" in the Seto language). Nowadays there are approximately 10 000 Setos left in the World. Valli who has grown up in a proper Seto family in Pechorsky District has been living in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for the last 40 years. According to her bloodline she is the fifth generation Seto folk singer. Besides her day-to-day work at Äripäev Publishing Valli continues to keep the traditions of singing and playing the garmon alive. However, ...
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When I Start ... Part One

Title in Estonian: Kui mina hakkan...I

2007 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Mati Viiul

Portrait documentary about Igor Tõnurist, the activist of Estonian folklore movement.

Igor Tõnurist, folklorist and researcher of folk music, tells about his research activities. He is characterized by Ingrid Rüütel, Anne Ojalo, Aivar Jürgenson and others. Igor Tõnurist's extensive knowledge about folk instrument music, folk songs and folk dance is awe-inspiring. Folk costumes and the wearing traditions serve as a special place in Tõnurist's research. It is his life's work to study Estonian heritage, to preserve it and pass it to the future generations.
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On the Edge of the New World

Original title: Vahtsõ ilma veere pääl

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
The Devil in the Sauna

Original title: Kurat tuleb sauna

2004 | Short, Feature film | Director: Andres Maimik

Short film directed by Andres Maimik about a man and a women trying to save their collapsing relationship in the primeval atmosphere of a smoke sauna.

The folklorist husband cannot put up with the fact that his TV reporter wife does not love him as much as before. Being tortured by passion and accusations, the husband takes his wife to sauna in order to cleanse the spirit as well as ignite the body chemistry. The primeval atmosphere of the sauna has quite the opposite effect on the woman and the situation goes out of control.
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Travelling Potters

Original title: Potisetod tulevad

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary about the cheerful journey of potters on horse carriages along the Seto region in Estonia to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu, South Estonia.

Cheerful and fast-paced documentary about the potters from Seto region having a jolly journey on horse carriages through Setoland to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu. In summers of 2002 and 2003, boys loaded the horse carriages full of Seto pottery and rode with the cartload from village to village as ancient Seto people. They did so in order to sell or exchange pottery items for food, accommodation and clothes, to acknowledge the presence of Seto people and look for the traces of former Seto potters as well as to collect the folklore and traditions.
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King for a Day

Original title: Kuningas üheks päevaks

2002 | Anthropological, Documentary | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary by Peeter Urbla about Aare Hõrn, owner of Mihkli Farm, and about his activities as Seto King.

Documentary follows the activities of Aare Hõrn - King of the Seto region, owner of Mihkli Farm and development adviser of Meremäe rural municipality - and has been recorded during the celebrations of the Seto Kingdom days, Passover, Christmas and Easter in Obinitsa, Antkruva, Värska, Võru, Luhamaa and Seto villages from August 2000 till October 2001.
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On the Border of Two Worlds

Title in Estonian: Katõ ilma veere pääl

1990 | Documentary | Director: Karl Kello

Documentary directed by Karl Kello, Kuldar Sink and Aare Hõrn about the Seto people living on the border of two worlds, two cultures and two religions, the East and the West.

Mighty kings and seven hundred years of great wars could not destroy the small Seto nation, even if the fifty years of the Soviet regime has been extremely hard. After World War 2, the ancient habitat of Setu peoples - Pechorsky district that had belonged to the first Republic of Estonia – was annexed to Russia. Half of the Seto population of five thousand people remained in Estonia and the other half in Russia. The life of both halves has been very different. And despite that the small nation attemps to preserve their mentality and language, religious traditions, to cherish ...
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