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Matsalu International Nature Film Festival
6th Matsalu International Nature Film Festival
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2008 winner Ralf Kiefner (film “The Feast”), sitting on the Grand Prix – chair of juniper.
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RESULTS
Festival jury consisting of:
Ralph Thoms (Chairman)
Mari Jüssi
Urmas E. Liiv
Göran Palm
Zoltan Török
decided to present the festival awards as follows:
The Grand Prix
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“The Feast”
directors Ralf Kiefner and Peter Spielmann, Germany
A cool and complex natural history action movie about the sardine run on the shores of South Africa. A comprehensive natural phenomena is told in such a dynamic way that the jury watched it with excitement and astonishment. A perfect combination of modern editing techniques and classical wildlife film style. A film that hardly can be forgotten.
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I prize
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 Category “Nature”
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“Prince of the Alps”
directors Klaus Feichtenberger and Otmar Penker, Austria
A nature film about a deer calf with a moving storyline of a feature film. It also reveals that seemingly harmless human intrusion can have devastating effects on wildlife, something that we rarely see in natural history films but which is important.
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Category “Man and Nature”
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“The Return of the Musk Ox”
director Vassili Sarana, Estonia
The tension between the film's subject and the filmmakers who have bravely put themselves into the story, truly captured our attention from the very beginning until the very last moment. Moreover, the story was interwoven with brilliant music.
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Special Prize of the Jury
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“Jellyfish – Leathal Beauty”
director Florian Guthknecht, Germany/France
This film changes the stereotypic views about the little known jellyfish. Thanks to the entertaining storytelling, the jury was amazed to realize that it's not all about the brain...
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“Waterlands”
director Mark Percival, UK
A very educating and informative film about the last waterlands in Britain. The strong environmental message is told through excellent camerawork.
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Best Director
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Category “Nature”
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“Polar Bears – Living on Thin Ice”
director Thomas Behrend, Germany
Thrilling, fascinating, amazing storytelling – there are no words to describe it.
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Category “Man and Nature”
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“Valuable Weeds”
director Oh Kyu Ik, Korea
A difficult and unattractive subject that the director managed to tell in a bright way. He succeeded to destroy the preconception about these plants and turned the jury into weed lovers.
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Best Photography
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Category “Nature”
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“The Crayfish in the Jam Jar”
director Jan Haft, Germany
The poetic cinematography in The Crayfish in the Jam Jar reveals the hidden beauty of daily things usually remaining unnoticed. The tools of a cinematographer are used in a very intelligent way that is rarely seen in documentaries.
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Category “Man and Nature”
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“The Return of the Musk Ox”
director Vassili Sarana, Estonia
Through the impressing scenes of The Return of the Musk Ox the viewers get the real feeling about tough forces of a harsh environment. One even starts to feel the cold and the wind in front of the screen thanks to the pictures of a highly skilled cameraman.
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Highly Commended Diplomas
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"Breaking the Ice, Arctic Style"
director Kurt Salo, Norway
This film is an excellent link between the history of oceanography and modern days’ climate change research. At the same time it gives a deep and intelligent view on how extraordinary Nansen's expedition was.
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"When Tisza is in Flower"
director Scabolcs Mosonyi, Hungary
A dramatic film with a good concept that illustrates the short life cycle of mayflies in the Tisza river of Hungary.
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"Fish on!"
directors Liivo Niglas, Diane Perlow and Frode Storaas, Estonia/Norway/USA
Fish On is a heart-warming observational documentary of local traditions and the fragile salmon ecosystem through the eyes of native American people.
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Special Prizes
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Ministry of Environment
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"On Wrong Land"
director Kari Kemppainen, Finland
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Estonian Fund for Nature
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"Waterlands"
director Marc Persival, UK
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Matsalu National Park
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"The Crayfish in a Jam Jar"
director Jan Haft, Germany
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Haapsalu Town
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"The Fields of Demeter"
director Knut Krzywinski, Norway
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Lääne County Government
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"The Kingdom of Elk"
director Rein Maran, Estonia
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Environmental Department of Läänemaa County
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"The Crayfish in a jam Jar"
director Jan Haft, Germany
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LIST OF FILMS
 - competition program
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Greina
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Villi Hermann
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(Switzerland)
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Life in the Floods
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Fl. Gutknecht, D. Tromballa
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(Germany)
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Kararea: The Pine Falcon
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Sandy Crichton
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(New-Zealand)
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Maleng - insecthunters in Thailand
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Claudia Pelz
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(Thai, Germany, Italy)
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The Crayfish in the Jam Jar
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Jan Haft
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(Germany)
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Turkey
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Jan Haft
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(Germany)
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Stagman
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Virginie Gourmel
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(Belgium)
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The Delta of Aedes
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Benoit Demarle
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(France)
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Beyond the Blue
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Guy Chaumette
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(Fiji, France, UK)
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Colour talks
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Guy Chaumette
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(Fiji, France, UK)
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Fisheye Fantasea
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Guy Chaumette
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(Fiji, France, UK)
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Brown Bea Secrets
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Stefan Quinth
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(Sweden)
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Cosmic Play
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Jouni Hiltunen
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(Finland)
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Montseny Reserve Park of the Biosphere
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Marti Arano Oller
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(Spain)
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The Return of the Musk Ox
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Vassili Sarana
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(Estonia)
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Bustard Protectors
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Szabolcs Mosonyi
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(Hungary)
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Hidden Waterland
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Szabolcs Mosonyi
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(Hungary)
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When Tisa is in flower
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Szabolcs Mosonyi
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(Hungary)
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Monte Gordo's Beach
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Sofia Trincao, Oscar Clemente
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(Portugal)
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The Windows of Life
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Danny 'Van Belle
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(Belgium)
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My Tree
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Sara Siadatnejad
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(Iran)
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If I go
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Salem Salvati
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(Iran)
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The Wind is blowing in the Lane
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Diako Yazdani
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(Iran)
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Taxi
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Diako Yazdani
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(Iran)
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Tehran 318
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Soran Mardookhi
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(Iran)
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One Day full of Pain
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Sattar Chamani Gol
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(Iran)
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Border
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Sattar Chamani Gol
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(Iran)
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Waterlands
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Marc Percival
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(UK)
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Last Yoik in Saami Forests?
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Hannu Hüvönen
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(Finland)
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A Pearl in the Baltic Sea
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Atte Henriksson
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(Finland)
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First Wings
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Stefano Giannotti
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(Italy)
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Chiayi Symphony
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Stefano Giannotti
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(Italy)
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In the Name of Roses
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Thierry Berrod
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(France)
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Spider Game
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Thierry Berrod
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(France)
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Vanuatu - The Pig Islands
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Jean-Pierre Rivalain
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(France)
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Sentinel Animals. Warning! Soil Pollution
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Kamel Kezadri
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(France)
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Sentinel Animals. Warning! Water Pollution
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Vincent Amaouroux<
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(France)
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Run-in with Wolves?
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Vincent Amaouroux
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(France)
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Pig Head!
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Thierry Berrod
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(France)
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Living and Dying in the Swamp
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Luc Riolon
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(France)
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Our Wonderful Nature
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Tomer Eshed
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(Germany)
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Woven among the Thickets
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Andrea Bertocchi
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(Italy)
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White Stork of my Valley
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Oliver Foykar
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(Serbia)
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A Bat Mys'tery
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Are Pilskog
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(Norway)
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Breaking the Ice - Arctic Style
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Kurt Salo
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(Norway)
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The Sweat Lodge
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Rob Homsi
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(Germany)
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The Last Bus
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Maria Hengge
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(Germany)
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Mainstreaming
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Jenny Meissner, Stef. Schiessl
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(Germany)
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Irani Wildlife
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Mani Mirsadeghi
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(Iran)
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Fish on!
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Liivo Niglas
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(Estonia, Norway, USA)
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Making Rain
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Liivo Niglas
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(Estonia, Norway, Mozambique)
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Dancing with Tlaloc
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Florence Babin
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(France)
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Sandy String of Spit
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Pjotr Govorov
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(Russia)
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Miraslava
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Roberto Santaguida
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(Canada)
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Meeting with Ospreys
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Mindaugas Survila
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(Lithuania)
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Fluid Mechanics remix
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Marlena Novak
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(Netherlands, USA)
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Aigi / Time
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Dainis Klava
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(Estonia, Latvia)
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Devil's Land
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Gisa Schleelein
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(Germany)
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Everyone
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Nacho Sanches Bravo
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(Spain)
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Turtles in a Soup
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Kalpana Subramanian
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(India)
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The Crowning
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Alberto Magrin
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(Italy)
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The Golden Wachau Valley - A Danube Treas
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Jürgen Eichinger
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(Austria)
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Civilised Wilderness - Life at the Sava Floodplains
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Anne Mesecke
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(Germany)
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Civilised Wilderness - Life between the Elbe Dikes
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Anne Mesecke
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(Germany)
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Karsarahan
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Alkim Ün
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(Turkey)
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Nale
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M.T. Winterhagen, T. Rahm
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(Germany)
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Bodong - Peace Pact
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Seymour Barros Sanches
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(Philippines)
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Lababo - Kitchen Sink
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Seymour Barros Sanches
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(Philippines)
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Pagbugtaw - Waking Up
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Seymour Barros Sanches
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(Philippines)
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The Treasure of Alps
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Franz Hafner
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(Austria)
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Land of Crystal Waters
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Klaus Feichtenberger, E. Pröll
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(Austria)
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High Tatras
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Pavol Barabað
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(Austria)
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Prince of the Alps
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Kl. Feichtenberger, Otm. Penker
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(Austria)
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Wild West Jersey
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Sue Daly
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(Channel Islands)
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Wild Guersney
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Sue Daly
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(Channel Islands)
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The Huma-Porcellone Syndrome
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Signe Astrup
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(Denmark)
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Scale of Reference
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Carol. Padilla Villarraga
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(Spain, Bolivia)
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Of "attributes" and "qualities"
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Daniel Desidero Paez Castillo
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(Spain)
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Sand, Wind, Water
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Monique van den Broek
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(Netherlands)
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The Man from Stregna
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Paolo Rojatti
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(Italy)
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Minor Apocalypse
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Alvaro Petricig
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(Slovenia, Italy)
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The Last Landscape Painter
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Gonzalo Ballester
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(Spain)
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The Peul Go
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Sylvain Vesco
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(Belgium)
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Kansanluonto / Finnish Nature
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Petteri Saario
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(Finland)
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The Flight of the Whimbrel
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Pall Steingrimsson
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(Iceland)
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Man and Eider
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Pall Steingrimsson
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(Iceland)
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The Heart Breaker
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Erik Strömdahl
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(Sweden)
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New Life in No-Man's-Land
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Heribert Schöller
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(Germany)
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The Igloo
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Carlos Val
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(Spain)
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Ferns - ordinary and extraordinary
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Zbigniew Bacynski
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(Poland)
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The Thirst of a Stone Sea
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Vladimir Perovic
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(Montenegro)
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Valuable Weeds
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Oh Kyu Ik
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(Korea)
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The Humpback Code
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Daniel Opitz
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(Germany)
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Adventure Yukon
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Andreas Kieling
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(Germany)
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The Meadow
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Jan Haft
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(Germany)
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The Polar Bears. Living on the Thin Ice
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Thomas Behrend
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(Germany)
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The Baltic Sea
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Thomas Willers
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(Germany)
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The Feast
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Ralf Kiefner, Peter Spielmann
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(Germany)
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Olga and Time
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Manuele Cecconello
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(Italy)
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The London Plane Tree
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Mark Larson
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(USA)
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Crude
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Richard Smith
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(Australia)
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Report of Green Estonia
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Moonika Siimets
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(Estonia)
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Peace with Seals
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Miloslav Novak
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(Italy, Czech Republic)
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Here the Sculpin swims
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Kallin Bolotski
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(Russia)
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The Four Seasons under water
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Florian Guthknecht
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(Germany)
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The Lodgers
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Florian Guthknecht
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(Germany)
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Lord Howe Islands - Paradise unchanged
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Florian Guthknecht
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(Germany)
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Jellyfish - lethal beauty
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Florian Guthknecht
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(Germany)
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Walking with the Wolves
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Igor Bõðnjov
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(Belarus)
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Birth and Building
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Svetlana Parocki
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(Serbia)
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A Place in The Village
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Tatiana de Perlinghi, Jacques M
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(Belgium)
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St. Eugene under the Acacia
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Emmanuelle Sarroy
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(France)
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Smiling Camel
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Emmanuelle Sarroy
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(France)
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Man is in question!
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Emmanuelle Sarroy
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(France)
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Kitui Sand Dams
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Hans van Westerlaak, Ewa Zwart
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(Netherlands)
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The Four Alps
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Jeremy Hogarth
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(Austria)
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The Liliputian Mimikri
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David Attila Molnar
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(Hungary)
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On Wrong Land
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Kari Kemppainen
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(Finland)
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Wild Quarry
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Sue Daly
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(Channel Islands)
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Kingdom of the Elk
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Rein Maran
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(Estonia)
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Fields of Demeter
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Knut Krzywinski
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(Norway)
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Three Men and a Fish pond
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M. Maskalans, L. Pakalnina
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(Latvia)
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The Gate of the Birds
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Ari Häkkinen
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(Finland)
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And There is a River
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Bidyut Kotoky
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(India)
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5 Walks - Hercynia Silva
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Anna Abrahams
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(Netherlands)
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Blue Revolution
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Fabian Archondo
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(Cuba)
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Choices
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Will Pascoe
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(Canada)
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Desert, Suburb, Vegas...
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James Cho
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(USA)
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Enchantment
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Hiwa Amminejad
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(Germany)
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The Old Man and the Sea... And the Fishes
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Slaven Zimbrek
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(Croatia)
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Fathom
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Vladimir Jedlicka
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(Switzerland)
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Fisherman of the Rhine Falls
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Leonie Röll
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(Germany, UK)
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Fish Eye
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Gabriel Enrique Vargas Vasques
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(Colombia)
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Freeport underwater, a Journey with Nature's Oce
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Hazel Tarr
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(Germany, UK)
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God is American
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Richard Martin Jordan
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(France)
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Habitat
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Antonio Savinelli
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(Spain, Venezuela)
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Herr Bar
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Clemens Kogler
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(Germany, Austria)
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Le Griot de Dapore
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Jaap van Heusden
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(Burkina Faso)
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Mimente
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Nick Collins
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(France, UK)
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Peri Gala
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Ilgar Safat
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(Azerbaijan)
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Promenade
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Junichiro Ishii
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(France)
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Returning to Gobustan
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Ilgar Safat
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(Azerbaijan)
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Sacriface
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Richardson Leao
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(Sweden)
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Sikh Driver
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Andrea Manenti
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(Italy)
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The Bugs and the Fleas
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Helene Friren
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(UK, Netherlands)
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The Clever go Gardening
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Signe Astrup
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(Germany)
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Stone Soup
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Christian Carmosino
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(Germany, Italy)
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Timewarp
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Mihhail Þeleznikov
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(Russia)
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Wasps up close
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Christoph Felder
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(Germany)
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Balance
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Martin Rey-Matesanz
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(Germany, Spain)
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Wild City
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Randy Astle
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(Germany, UK)
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The Swan Lady
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Malin Rosenqvist
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(Sweden)
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