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Films
5 Films
Country of production
“Finland”
x
films with a digital version
4
Region
Central Asia and Far East
3
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
India
1
Japan
1
Russian Federation
3
Keywords
Animals
1
Children / Young people
1
Everyday Life
2
Health / Health care / Healing
2
History
1
Memory
1
Nomads and Nomadism
3
Possession
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Domenig, Aya
1
Lappalainen, Heimo
3
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Series
Taiga Nomads
3
not set
2
Country of production
Finland
5
x
Switzerland
1
Year of production
1992
3
2000
1
2015
1
Film list
The Day the Sun Fell
2015
78
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Aya Domenig
.
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by
South-East Asia
History
Memory
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Hundreds of Homes
1992
50
‘
Directed by
Heimo Lappalainen
.
Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga, an area predominated by
Central Asia and Far East
Nomads and Nomadism
Animals
Kusum
2000
69
‘
Directed by
Jouko Aaltonen
Antti Pakaslahti
.
Kusum is a 14-year-old Indian girl. She lives and attends school in Delhi. Kaushal, her father, drives a motorised rickshaw and works his fingers to the bone to support his family. Sumitra, Kusum’s
South Asia
Children / Young people
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
The School and the Village
1992
50
‘
Directed by
Heimo Lappalainen
.
Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the taiga ± an area predominated by
Central Asia and Far East
Nomads and Nomadism
Everyday Life
The Skills You Passed On
1992
50
‘
Directed by
Heimo Lappalainen
.
The second of three films about the Evenki people of eastern Siberia. Focuses on Nikolaj Pavlovich Archemku, who experienced the very beginning of Soviet power, two World Wars, and the
Central Asia and Far East
Nomads and Nomadism
Everyday Life