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Liszt Institute Tallinn regularly participates in Finno-Ugric related events. The exhibition 'Our Indigenous Friends' by Edina Csüllög, a Hungarian filmmaker and Finno-Ugric festival organiser living in Estonia will be on display at the Rakvere Rohuaia Kindergarten!
The Finno-Ugric Film Foundation (MTÜ FUFF) has been organising Forest Film School camps in Finno-Ugric language areas since 2015. The first one was in Tsiistre, South Estonia. The material for this film was shot in Numsang Joh, a Khanty children's camp in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra in Russia. Around 100 students have so far benefited from the training by Estonian, Hungarian and Finnish filmmakers. The programme aims to encourage students to make films in their native language. This is usually the students' first encounter with the camera and their own language as a tool for artistic expression. This is how the first videos, short films, installations and many photographs of the kindred Khanty people were made.
Through the students' stories, the exhibition conveys their own experiences in a truly personal way. The Khantys are the last in trying to preserve their own culture and natural environment. The exhibition also draws attention to this special people and their special language, as well as to the endangerment of small languages.
