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Lynx Man

Original title (on Finnish): Ilveskuiskaaja

2023 | Documentary | Director: Juha Suonpää

After installing many trail cameras to his forest, Finnish pensioner Hannu opens a unforeseen door to the Finnish nature and creates a true connection to lynxes living there.

Following divorce and a serious accident Hannu lives alone on his farm in the West of Finland. An environment home to all kinds of wildlife – including the Eurasian lynx, a wildcat until recently almost extinct. When Hannu finds a dead lynx by the side of the road, it is like meeting an old friend: he realizes that the lynx who lived in the area during his childhood have returned. Filled with renewed vigour and lust for life, Hannu sets up trail cameras all over his land. Soon, 23 cameras are recording everything from moose to mice. Hannu starts to ...
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Charm of Sacred Groves

Original title: Hiite lummus

2013 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Rein Maran

Documentary by Rein Maran about oak groves in Estonia - local holy places of nature and cultural heritage.

There are more than 800 known grove sites in Estonia, the ancient holy places of nature. Groves were protected by the religious customs of rural people and its natural environment stayed intact. This way, every grove formed into an original ecosystem due to local conditions of climate, water and soil. Many groves are well-preserved today, some of them, however, are completely gone except a few landscape marks left behind of its existence. The main value of Estonian nature gradually opens up - the variety of the nature surrounding us. Unfortunately, we are not always able to understand the value as ...
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Master Hunter: Portrait of Mati Hõbemägi

Original title: Jäägermeister

2004 | Documentary, Portrait, Problem oriented | Director: Elen Lotman

Mati Hõbemägi, hunter and hunting organizer, goes hunting, cares for wild animals and the forest.

Mati Hõbemägi was a head of socialist agricultural holding in Järva county, Estonia. After the collapse of the Soviet regime Mati decided to turn the page in his life. During a decade, Mati together with his supporters have made local forests known across Europe. Every year, hunters take about 200 tons of grain to the forests, make large forage areas and pay close attention to the fact that all activities related to the forests would be in accordance with laws and the code of ethics. Nevertheless, there are still people whose careless behaviour causes irreversible harm to nature.
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Hunting Estonian-style

Original title: Jaht Eesti moodi

2001 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ove Musting

Sometimes it is hard to make a difference who makes a better hunter - the one who takes from nature or who takes care of nature and animals.

The documentary introduces Estonian wild animals, hunting and taking care of them and gives a short history about the history and traditions of hunting. The ways of hunting are treated according to seasons: beaver hunt in spring; game stalking for goats and wild boars in summer; fowling in autumn, game stalking and battue for moose; bear hunt; battue for wild board and hunting predators (wold, lynx, fox, raccoon dog) in winter. In several cases, the hunters are being helped by hounds. In order the multiplicy of wild game in Estonia would persist local hunters help wild animals to survive the ...
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Kandlekuusk

1994 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran
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Ilvese lugu

1988 | Popular Sciences | Director: Rein Maran
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Estonian wild animals

Title in Estonian: Eesti metsloomad

1971 | Documentary, Other categories, Commissioned | Director: Evald Vaher

Educational film about Estonian wild animals commissioned by the Ministry of Education of Estonian SSR.

Educational documentary introducing the most widely known wild animals in Estonia – including hedgehog, squirrel, hare, deer and elk. Among the dangerous predators there are wolf, fox and lynx. Animals are shown in their natural environment during different seasons.
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Nõukogude Eesti

1971 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Peep Puks
Nõukogude Eesti

1964 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Vitali Gorbunov