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201993 minPGdocumentary

Religious Institutions Migration

Funeral Diaries

201993 minPGdocumentary

Three ministers from Estonia work in Toronto, primarily burying members of the generation that fled their homeland in 1944.

Religious Institutions Migration

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Three ministers from Estonia work in Toronto, primarily burying members of the generation that fled their homeland in 1944.

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Marko Raat

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Jüri, Kalle, and Mart serve as ministers for Estonian exile congregations in Toronto. They face the daily challenges of providing comfort to the elderly and the dying. Their primary responsibility has shifted to conducting funerals for the generation that fled Estonia in 1944. As they navigate their roles in a foreign culture, the ministers confront their own feelings of isolation and loss, reflecting on the weight of their duties in a community marked by displacement.

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