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Matsalu International Nature Film Festival
3rd Matsalu International Nature Film Festival
3rd Matsalu Nature Film Festival has now become history. During four days 39 competing films from 15 different countries were shown to the public; additionally, twelve photo exhibitions by Swedish, Hungarian and Estonian top nature photographers were open. Compared to the last year festival spectator numbers increased. Thank you for the participation, your films, the commitment of all authors made the festival successful and impressive.
RESULTS
Festival jury consisting of:
Irjaleena Eriksson
Sven Jansson (Chair)
Kaja Lotman
Andres Sööt
Peter van der Wolf
decided to present the festival awards as follows:
Grand Prix
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"Farmer's Time on Earth"
director Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
This film definitely makes us reflect on our short time on Earth. A most sensitive story with important aspects of the relations between human beings and other living parts of this planet.
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I prize
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 Category "Sea and Shore"
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"Reefs of Iron"
director Sue Daly, UK
Exploring the natural history is not that easy, but exploring the underwater world under totally difficult and different conditions is a challenge on it's own. The jury found this film in all its aspects excellent. The combination of storytelling, photography, the editing and the music kept us watching till the bottom of the sea.
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Category "Man and Nature"
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"The Pearls of the Baltic Sea 5 – Hailuoto"
director Petteri Saario, Finland
The sea connects and disconnects. In this film the sea does not only connect an island with the mainland but also its past with the present day. There is a harmony between the visuality and the message of the film, and it makes us understand more about the life of islanders and their great love of the island. A beautiful and warm film, which makes us stop in the busy world of ours.
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Special Prize of the Jury
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Category "Sea and Shore"
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"Talking with Fishes"
director Guy Chaumette, UK
The underwater world is mystic and for many people an uncertain area, but why? We often do not know and do not understand all these marine animals. The effort of the crew, the new approach, the touchy moments, the tension of this innovative portrayal, to find out do these animals feel, do they enjoy, recognize, learn or remember.
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Category "Man and Nature"
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"Songs of Coastal Meadows"
director Ago Ruus, Estonia
This film showed how difficult it is to restore a valuable habitat while it is much easier to maintain the traditional way of land use.
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Best Director
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Category "Sea and Shore"
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"Secrets of the Adriatic"
director Michael Schlamberger, Austria
The difficult task of the director is to create a film of all the material and thoughts of the initial idea. Here the director faced different challenges than in a typical wildlife film. In addition to the realm of animals and plants, he had to keep an eye on a long and complicated history of the area and its cultural heritage. The result is a film that gives us a new understanding of the dimensions of a beautiful area and teaches us more about nature and our world.
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Category "Man and Nature"
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"Garden of the Gods (Greece)"
director Michael Schlamberger, Austria
The jury decided to award the prize to the film, where mythology of Ancient-Greece is masterfully combined with nature in its diversity.
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Best Photography
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Category "Sea and Shore"
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"Norway's Hidden Secrets"
director Florian Graner, Germany
It is most difficult to find wildlife films with the most perfect photo quality. But this film really makes you understand that the oceans are not only blue...
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Category "Man and Nature"
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"Appalachia"
directors Steve Nicholls and Alfred Vendl, Austria
The jury values the photographer's skill to make unforgettable the ancient mountains, forests and all those to whom Appalachia is home, now and forever...
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Special Prizes
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Ministery of Environmental Affairs
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"Spring on the Herring's Gull Land"
Mare Albri, Estonia
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Matsalu National Park
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"The Boy, who adored the Wilderness"
Asgeir Helgestad, Norway
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Estonian Fund for Nature
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"Wooden Dollars of Primorye"
Eugeny Ferster, Russia
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Estonian Fund for Nature
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"Catch & Denial"
Kurt Salo, Norway
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Lihula Parish
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"Songs of Coastal Meadows"
Ago Ruus, Estonia
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Department of Environment of Läänemaa County (West-Estonia)
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"Estonian Wilderness"
Tom Arnbom, Sweden
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Lihula Museum
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"Short Tales out of Nature"
Sandor Zsila, Hungary
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LIST OF FILMS
- competition program
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Estonian wilderness
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Tom Arnbom
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Sweden
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Art and Nature
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Jenny Nyroos
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Finland
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The Baltic – sea of Surprises
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Nick Upton
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Finland
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The fantastic Journey with Gulf stream 1.
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Volker Artzt
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Germany
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The fantastic Journey with Gulf stream 2.
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Volker Artzt
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Germany
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Anita Rodick - Mrs Body Shop
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Thomas Weidenbach
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Germany
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Like nothing on Earth
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Karlheinz Baumann
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Germany
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The River Sieg
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Thomas Fõrster
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Germany
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The Forests close to Nordkirchen
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Kerstin Peeterss
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Germany
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Monkey War and Peace
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Ke-Chin Yuan, Nick Upton
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Taivan
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Sheperd’s Journey into the 3rd Millennium
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Erich Langjahr
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Switzerland
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Resquer
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Aleksandr Kalaðnik
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Ukraine
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Dipper on Baikal
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Elena Zommer
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Russia
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Ǻland
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Bornholm
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Gotland
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Saaremaa
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Hailuoto
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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The Pearls of the Baltic Sea - Kotlin
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Petteri Saario
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Finland
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98 km/h
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Markus Lundin,
Mats Söderholm
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Sweden
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The Dorm
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Allan Gustafsson
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Sweden
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-30°
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Oskar Östergren,
Fredrik Oskasson
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Sweden
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Islands without Frontiers
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Andrea Maggi
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Italy
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Catch & Denial
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Kurt Salo
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Norway
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The Boy, who adored the Wilderness
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Asgeir Helgestad
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Norway
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Cultural Landscape
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Evald Ottestad
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Norway
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Down Gold Street
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Knutte Wester
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Sweden
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Talking with Fishes
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Guy Chaumette
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UK
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Jawfish Nursery
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Guy Chaumette
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UK
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Springtime Wonderband
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Madli Lääne
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Estonia
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Dive down to the Land of the Sea Squirt
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Helen Rundgren
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Sweden
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Dive deep down in the Skagerrak
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Helen Rundgren
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Sweden
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A Life with Bears
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Andreas Kieling
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Germany
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Porpoises – Life and Death in the Fast Line
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Florian Garner
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Germany
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Species Hunter
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Lothar Frenz
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Germany
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Norway’s hidden secrets
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Florian Garner
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Germany
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Wolves! Back in Germany
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Holger Voigt
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Germany
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The cliffy Mountains of Mallorca
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Holger Voigt
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Germany
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Reefs of Iron
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Sue Daly
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Channel Islands
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Wooden Dollars of Primorie
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Jevgeni Ferster
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Russia
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School of Forestry
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Aleksander Birjuk
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Russia
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Appalachia
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Steve Nicholls,
Alfred Vendl
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Austria
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Flight of the Storks
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Karl Köningsberger
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Austria
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Greece – the Garden od Gods
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Michael Schlamberger
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Austria
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Secrets of the Adriatic
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Michael Schlamberger
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Austria
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Enforced Settler
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Rein Maran
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Estonia
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Wolf in the Village
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Henrik Ekman
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Sweden
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Farmers’s time on Earth
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Peter Gerdehag
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Sweden
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Sea of Attractions
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Dainis Klava
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Latvia
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Spring on Herring’s Gull Land
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Mare Albri
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Estonia
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The Price of Birds
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Krassimir Simeonov,
Albena Puneva
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Bulgaria
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Songs of Coastal Meadows
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Ago Ruus
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Estonia
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Karula national Park
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Anne-Mari Neider
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Estonia
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The Perfect Reef
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Guy Chaumette
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UK, France
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Traces of the Ice Age
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Christian Olsson,
Bo Forsander
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Finland
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