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Dans les bois nous entraîne dans un lieu où les limites du temps ont disparu, dans une nature sauvage et d'une fragile beauté. Cette immersion totale dans ces forêts ancestrales est une expérience forte pour les spectateurs de tous âges.

The minstrel Tarmo Urb came into direct conflict with the Soviet system, because the regime did not allow him to conquer the world's stages, but at the same time did not let him go. The collision of the two "greats" lasted for ten years.

Kristine Briede and Audrius Stonys's meditative documentary essay portrays the less-remembered generation of cinema poets of the Baltic New Wave. With finesse, they push beyond the barriers of the common historiographic investigation in order to achieve a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation.

The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking situations, in all aspects of the everyday. What happens to people's free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?

The Lithuanian scientist Ausra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and gray cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have changed.

A poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens' parting words to one another are, "May you come back free!"

Students compete in natural sciences to win scholarship money.

In 1982, a fire broke out in the Soviet Antarctic research station Vostok and destroyed the station's power plant. The expedition was left without light or heating right before the four-month long polar night set in, with an outside temperature of -70 °C. The men decided not to ask for help, because they knew that it was nowhere to be found. The Soviet Union was not a proponent of risk management; extreme situations demanded heroic acts. And the men didn't think twice. Still, a rift divided the crew into two opposing camps.

Documentary about the relationship between humans and bears. Filmed in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.

"Rauaniit" is an observational documentary about the reconstruction of the former textile factory into the Academy of Arts. The process of transformation is the result of the selfless and hard physical work of the builders. A glamorous opening party takes place in the newly completed modern house, the rooms are filled with new kind of people, there are no builders among them.

Russian filmmaker Vasili Sarana and Estonian filmmaker Riho Västrik explore the source of the Lena River in Siberia.

Estonian filmmaker Riho Västrik and Estonian scholar Erki Tammiksaar travel to Armenia and Turkey to retrace the steps of the first ascent of Mount Ararat by Baltic German explorer Friedrich Parrot and Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian.

A reindeer herdsman's life is as gently monotonous as the tundra's landscape itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one migration to the other.

Homeless Nadezhda cannot cope with the death of her husband and is hoping that God will one day reunite the two of them. Security guard Oleg has lost his job and his health. How to find the strength to keep on living when all is gone? Suitably for Nadezhda, a traditional Russian Orthodox Church is being built in the apartment-house district. Will that bring consolation? Many people come to the church but for Oleg and Nadezhda, the church proves to be a bit overwhelming in its indifferent greatness. The Pigeons is a creative documentary about the strength of hope of a simple man.

The film depicts two different worlds, opposites both in terms of content and form. Products of evolution, the irregular natural landscapes together with their inhabitants stand in opposition to man made perfectly straight mining fields.

In the middle of the 19th century, A. T. von Middendorff led an expedition to the northernmost place of the Eurasian continent, the Taimyr Peninsula. 160 years later, Middendorff's journey was re-traced by a team of Estonian scientists.