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- Red Iron Road is an animated horror anthology series, based on the works of famous European authors. Each of the episodes are between 10-20 minutes, produced with different creative partners in unique visual styles to suit each story.
- A love triangle between an artist, picture and sculpture.
- Every ship deserves its captain.
- This 3D animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type, bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!
- "Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.
- Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
- It is a political parody film against totalitarian system of violence, about the careless game of power that has been played with the world and peoples. The film creates a model situation in which a lumpen gambler, playing with a slot-machine and thinking he is the master of the situation, turns out to be just a little screw nut in the machinery of the game of power. There is an actor used in this film.
- Is it possible to reach the moon in one breath? Yes, it is if you have the will to fly and the appropriate training. This is the case with postman Rain. This is not simply the journey of a postman to deliver the package to the Moon. It is also a philosophical journey in time and eras, through people and their characters, through thaugths and imagination. This is a visual version of thoughts and imagination of a postman who is fulfilling his task in spite of all problems and distractions.
- It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on a plot of land that belongs to a poor Estonian peasant woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia. Against a background of chasing and hunting two young people find their love.
- The 10-minute animated film "FOX WOMAN" is based on a legend of Mapuche Indians. It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, and gets cruelly cast down. In the film the personification of animals provides this slightly absurd legend with social context. The film as a whole could be classified as a comedy and its main audience could be teenagers.
- The family is outing. Mother and father are laying the picnic table, the small ones start playing on a meadow. The hen wanders into somebody's vegetable patch and is scared to half-death seeing a scarecrow. Everybody starts looking for her and the little brother encounters a snake. But the chicken is brave now and ends up as the hero of the day..
- The heroes of the film are three bear cubs from the cult painting by Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in a Pine Forest." After losing their painter mom, three brothers--Henry, Vincent, and August--appear in Paris, the City of Light every creator dreams of. All attempts to earn their living as artists fail. Their impressionistic "collies" won't be acknowledged. Under cover as circus lions, the bear cubs travel back to Russia to find their mother's heritage.
- A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life until one day, he is offered a home, but this doesn't mean a lifelong happiness.
- Our bodies remember more that we can expect and imagine; our bodies also remember the sorrow and pain of our predecessors. Our bodies sustain the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as they ancestors. But how far back is it possible to go in body memory?
- Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.
- There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
- This is Carrot that unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes persecuted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays it again and again. The coming beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
- Snowman with a carrot nose is escaping from the Hare. During the pursuit they both occur to be on the stage of the theatre, in the backstage where the pivotal events take place. By the end of a strange show the chase is over too and they both leave the theatre richer than they had ever dared to hope.
- The family is on an outing. Mother and father are laying the picnic table, meanwhile the small ones start playing on a meadow. The hen wanders into somebody's vegetable patch and is scared to half-death seeing a scarecrow. Everybody starts looking for her and the little brother encounters a snake. But the hen is brave now and ends up as the hero of the day...
- A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still believed in happy solutions.
- Helpful Miriam builds the Gnome a cart so that it would be easier for him to bring presents. But do the gnomes really exist?
- There exists a most exquisite man, or at least the world that surrounds him, labels and sees him as such. He has fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent, he could even be called a genius, yet something within him is restless. Big questions utterly absorb him, leading him to a place where all he can do is surrender his life, in order to find that which gives him and the natural world undeniable purpose and concluding peace.
- A little boy and his big dream - toy soldiers with souls, who would close their eyes, when dying.
- Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. he lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather's fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. What will she draw instead of her past childhood?
- The folklore of practically all the worlds peoples abounds with mysterious beings possessing supernatural powers. Who of us has not heard of nor read stories about gnomes,elves,golems,leprechauns etc?In this film,skeptical city people from the information society who are surrounded by high technology meet mythological beings from the legends of their ancestors with intriguing and comical results.
- In post-Soviet Estonia, the farmer Saamuel Pliuhkam lives a simple life with his wife, pig and chicken. Then Saamuel discovers oil on his small plot of land. The sudden wealth brings Euromafia.
- Multiplying the existing point of view the actual oneness seems changes to unevenness.
- A documentary with the elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain... The time of occurring of the real events is in a documentary "The Kings of Time" is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to the space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built. At the same time, in a far corner of the Soviet Union, two Estonian men started to play with puppets. Why? The protagonists of the 72-minute documentary are two different film directors, two different creators: Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars, who, in spite of the changing times, have established themselves as the kings of time... and, quoting the chronicle films of their time: "were the first Estonians who have flown all the way to the roof of the World cinema..."
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- "Happy Birthday" is an outlook vision about the duel between Bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favor, or will the status quo remain firm?
- Puppet film about pre-christmas. Puppet world is united with natural scenes with kids, traditional fairy-tale land with gnooms and Santa Clause is revitalized. The film is meant for children.
- Snowman's dream has been fulfilled: he is non-meltable and can finally see the summer! But his joy will be cut short since there are more chasers for his nose than the always hungry Rabbit and beach lacks the safe and covering snow.
- The winter ghost The story is about 9-year old Hendrick and Annie, and about their relationship. They have to find their own ways to overcome social prejudices before they can become true friends. Poverty and social injustice were part of children's life in Pieter Bruegel's world, and they still are in our time. Emotionally the story is about, how it feels to be treated unjustly, a feeling that most of the children experience in some stage of their lives. The Winter Ghost" is, however, told as a classical children's tale and it ends happily. There is humour and fantasy which add more dimensions to the basically quite realistic tale. All these elements make the film suitable for a wide audience, both children and family, and I believe that it works well as a holiday special. Anonymous
- It is an absolutely wonderful Barbieland made of plastic. Life there is safe, but in one morning line-up the Queen has to listen to the well-known fatal words: "You my Queen are the fairest in the world but Dennis-Dolly is even fairer..." All happens as in the well-known fairy-tale. To the point where Dolly's new friends - the old abandoned dolls - are faced with a problem: which of them is the divine Dolly when the only identifying features on them are their clothes and accessories? Is this worth dying for?
- The film's narrative is based on a traditional Estonian fairytale, telling the story of a group of mosquitoes that challenge a horse to a contest of strength. As the film begins, it evokes an almost documentary sensibility, in part through its use of voice-over narration (in English). Though the film might at first seem to be a relatively traditional work, it is not long until this impression changes, and drastically. The character design and voice recording, along with fantastically unrestricted cinematography and editing, combine with folk songs (sung in Estonian, with English subtitles) that might be described as 'quirky' or maybe just 'really odd.' Some dialogue is presented in 'word bubbles' printed on the film as well. So much is going on, on so many levels, that the film defies its viewer to look away -- and who would want to? It's all wonderful. The Mosquito and the Horse clearly demonstrates how successful a film can be operating outside the classical Hollywood model.
- The children become so exited of the play with typing-machine and paper that they don't notice how evening comes. In the apple-tree behind the Grandpa's barn there is a bird-nest. We understand how everything circulates harmoniously in Nature, how evening-peace and dream arrive.
- At bedtime, Sandman Matis footprints appear from nowhere on the sand. The Master of Dreams spreads the dream sand in co-operation with Pillow Katis onto piglet, gentlemen in black, the tumbler, a rabbit chasing hunter and on angel Tõnu. The Pillow Katis put dream pillows under every faller to make the falling asleep softer and safer as well. Sandman Mati also strew dream sand onto the eyelids of a sleepless child.
- A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows a beautiful, exciting life with kitchen utensils? The viewer never sees this woman intact; the camera moves along her body--rather, along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same. From time to time, different insects appear to laugh over the woman's innocent dreams, just as guzzling and unreliable dreams. They predict the end and death, nobody knows--through guillotine or kitchen knife.
- A lonely, hopeless man discovers in himself an ability to fall in love. His beloved is the same kind of outcast of society as himself. Together they are trying to escape from the roles and productiveness imposed and will try to find a way to a new and happy life.
- The hen enjoys playing around with kites. When Miriam has no more time for it, the hen convinces the little brother to go along. But the kite is too big for little brother and it flies him up to a treetop. Miriam and the hen need to act fast to get him down. As joint effort it works.
- Everyday love affair.
- Two lonely personages from completely different worlds meet and become close. A live bird in a cage and a metal-and-wood cuckoo from a clock are the creatures through which local cultural identities and their occasional contacts are observed. The parrot and artificial cuckoo then beget an offspring - a weird hybrid of wood, metal and feathers; an aggressive and obstinate personage...
- This film should be the artistic approach to our nearest future. We can see media to play continously more greater role in the arrangement of the social life. How we can get more precise results in the surveys? How the big and biggist companies can answer the requirements of vast consumers by changing themselves? The result of all this is a vulgar and rude 'modern world'.
- What happens when the Maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?
- It is said that if a man is fading away, he sees his life running quickly in front of his eyes. What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles? Does it see broken frames, scratched film stock, or something else?
- Primavera (1998) is a three dimensional family film featuring puppets that work in the so called telescope system which tries with the help of stylized images to visually depict the great variety existing in nature, the food chain and variations in the reproduction of different living organisms. This is a love story in which the motifs of the "Ugly Duckling" fairy tale can be discerned. The entire film is seen through the eyes of a butterfly larva.