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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.

The Mayans view the universe as a woven tapestry, where each of us is a thread, creating intricate patterns and inspiring stories. Over four years, we have crafted a film 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. This film aims to inspire viewers to connect with fire and the elements of nature, urging them to find their heart's path while bridging the wisdom between the Guatemalan Mayan tradition and Estonia.
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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

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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Kihnu neiu

2021 | Other categories | Director:
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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.

Ivanna, a 26-year-old mother of five children, is living in the Arctic region in northwest Siberia. She lives a traditional nomadic life, driving her herd of reindeer at the tundra as her family did for centuries. But due to the environmental side effects of climate change most of her reindeers are dying and she knows that she will soon be ruined and forced to make a dramatic decision. Her husband, Gena, has already left the family. He moved to the city, hoping to find a job as an oil worker in the Russian oil fields but didn’t succeed and ...
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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.

Margit has left her life, career and apartment in the big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow Nettle. She believes that there is a power in this plant, that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched Nettle and it’s qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an enterpreneur?Margit’s daughter Nele, a well known youtuber, will try to help out. So in ...
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Kuidas muru kasvab

2020 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Anti Naulainen
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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.

This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
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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.

The town of Maardu in Estonia organises an annual Ukrainian-themed festival, called "Sorochinsky Fair"; after the short story by Nikolai Gogol. More than 15,000 people come every year. This is the largest Ukrainian fair outside of Ukraine, and it has even been entered into the Ukrainian Book of Records. The film is structured like a work of literature, being made up of a number of interconnected stories. The full variety of the fair and beauty contest is presented from different angles and viewpoints: that of the festival organisers; the actor playing Gogol; the instructor from the local beauty school; the ...
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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.

In the 17th-18th century, the Udmurts, to escape Christianization and social pressure moved massively eastwards from the Kama River. They found refuge among the Bashkirs who were moslem and allowed them to follow the ways of their ancestors. Soviet anti-religious campaigns failed to root out the Udmurts' religious traditions although in some villages public prayers were cancelled for a while. Today amidst the Eastern Udmurts the traditional Udmurt faith is reborn, in almost all villages prayer ceremonies are carried out. The main aim of the ceremonies is to guarantee the favour of the gods, to pray for the health of ...
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