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2018
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Alexandra Shadrina
Attention! New collection of people is on sale in our shopping mall!
Attention! New collection of people is on sale in our shopping mall! Hurry up, only a few days left!
The choice of modern man is determined by the fashion industry marketers. Fashionable patterns are already invented and fed to the audience waiting to be bought. Who actually makes a choice, a person or it has been already made for one?
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1969
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Elbert Tuganov
The first piece is based on an Indian fairy-tale “A Meditation of the Donkey”. It is a story about a donkey who wants to win favour with its master and starts to mock the master’s favourite – his dog. The second piece is based on a Czech fairy-tale “The Witch’s Broom”. It tells of two boys, who find a broom of a witch and start to fly with it.
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2007
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Girlin Bassovskaja
A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them.
A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows a beautiful-exiting life with kitchen utensils? We don't see the woman never intact, though we move along her body, rather along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same. From time to time different insects appear as 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.
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2004
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Katja Kettu
The story of a woman who manipulates her own world and the men in it with a typewriter.
The story of a woman who manipulates her own world and the men in it with a typewriter. An unexpected pregnancy claims to have lethal consequences. A movie about exploitation and an extraordinary gift,
which can be inherited.
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1985
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Riho Unt, Hardi Volmer
A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motivs from a Chukchee fairytale.
A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motivs from a Chukchee fairytale.
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2013
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Animation, Other types of animation
| Director:
Ülo Pikkov
What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles?
It is sayd 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 brokend frames, scratched film stock or something else?
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2016
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
A fairy tale about Khanty man and his wife.
A Khanty man went hunting but did not bring home any catch. A wife stealthily followed her husband into the forest. The hunter lay down, took his eyes out and said, “Semlek re-rem-rem”. The wife seized the husband’s eyes. The next day an elk was trotting by the camp. The hunter killed the elk. Later the hunter entered the conical tent where the wife secretly ate the meat. The wife thought that her brother-in-law had come and covered her face as it was the Khanty custom to avoid husband’s male relatives seeing the wife’s face. The wife complained that her ...
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1986
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Animation, Puppet, Other categories, Commissioned
| Director:
Raivo Järvi
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1986
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Rao Heidmets
There lives only one animal in the zoo – a giraffe. No one except a little girl comes to visit it.
There lives only one animal in the zoo – a giraffe. No one except a little girl comes to visit it. To attract visitors the director of the zoo orders an advertising giraffe. But then it turns out that people are enraptured by the artificial giraffe not the living one. There begins a public “giraffe boom”.
The film ridicules the enthusiasm for artificial and counterfeit common to mass culture.
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1991
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Rao Heidmets
Before the Christmas a strange world of dwarfs awakens.
Before the Christmas a strange world of dwarfs awakens. Snow-white dwarfs make presents from snow and ice. During the course of their work the dwarfs become coloured themselves – their world becomes beautiful and gets idea of existence.
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2021
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Animation, Other categories, Commissioned
| Director:
Raul Viitung
Revolution!
A group of former Soviet monuments plot an escape and comeback.
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2013
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Aina Järvine, Meelis Arulepp
Grey world makes people sombre. World full of colours makes people irritated. What is a poor Painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd?
Grey world makes people sombre. World full of colours makes people irritated. What is a poor Painter to do if he wants to please this insatiable and daft crowd?
Long-long time ago when the world was created it was grey. People got tired of their ashen realm and demanded a change. Luckily for them a Painter arrived happy to add colours to this drab world. Soon people tired from all the colours and demanded Painter to stop. So Painter created white colour and covered the world with white. Leaving people to admire this new colour Painter took his leave.
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2001
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Jelena Girlin
I'll come, I'll get some experiences, I'll choose, I'll make mistake, I'll die, I'll come.
A Man comes into this world. He searches for something, runs across a Power, and gets shocked of it. He becomes convinced by the rightness of the Power. He is not able to separate right or wrong anymore. He makes mistake and dies, but the Goodness will give him a new trial - a new possibility to make mistake.
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2001
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Ülo Pikkov
The animated film THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN tells the story of a solitary and brutal hero, the headless horseman.
The animated film THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN tells the story of a solitary and brutal hero, the headless horseman. The headless horseman is an ordinary resident of the Grand Canyon. The only difference is that he has no head. The headless horseman suffers from a serious inferiority complex thanks to that one factor that makes him different from the other canyon residents. This makes him terribly violent. Through a series of ordeals, the headless horseman manages to find himself a new head. Namely, the headless horseman sticks to the moon shining in the sky and he becomes a ...
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1991
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Aarne Ahi
Strange things happen in the Christmas Eve.
A greedy fox snaffles presents from Father Frost’s sledge, but the Dwarf and two toys enliven by him bring the presents to the children. The fox is forgiven and the Christmas-peace is restored.
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2006
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Mati Kütt
At bedtime, Sandman Mati's footprints appear from nowhere on the sand. The Master of Dreams spreads the dreamsand in co-operation with Pillow Katis.
At bedtime, Sandman Mati's footprints appear from nowhere on the sand. The Master of Dreams spreads the dreamsand in co-operation with Pillow Katis onto piglet, gentelmen in black, the tumbler, a rabbit chasing hunter and on angel Tõnu. The Pillow Katis put dreampillows under every faller to make the falling asleep softer and safer as well.
Sandman Mati also catters dream sand onto the eyelids of a sleepless child.
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2008
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Documentary, Portrait, Animation, Puppet, Biographical
| Director:
Mait Laas
Documentary with the elements of animation directed by Mait Laas about the founders of Eesti Nukufilm, film directors Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars.
The fast-paced humorous story has recorded the two grand masters of Estonian puppet cartoon - Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007) and Heino Pars (1925). The story of their life and work has been brought us through the excerpts of newsreels, old photographs, puppet animations and recollections of their contemporaries. Having played with puppets for about 30 years, Tuganov and Pars are being animated as puppets themselves - only by the new generations of animation filmmakers.
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1964
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Elbert Tuganov
This is a humorous story about a chimney-sweep who happened to stay without work.
This is a humorous story about a chimney-sweep who happened to stay without work, because the smoke dissapeared from the town; he had to find a new job. He started to put up the TV antennas to the roofs.
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2001
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Mait Laas
Those stories are free of violence and takes place in the middle of a stormy sea filled with reefs. It is about a two brave guys - Kuli and Kuuli, and their gorgeous and ungorgeous acquaintances.
Anything can happen at sea. You are eating your daily sandwich on the deck of the ship when suddenly some shark with its dorsal fin swollen from greed, or gigantic sly seagull, or a spicy storm that has just capsized a spice ship, attacks you. That is just the way it is at sea, and those storm are the absolute worst. But nevertheless, as opposed to other ships, one ship must always be at sea, even if it is raining stone herrings from the sky!
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2006
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Aina Järvine, Meelis Arulepp
This fun children’s film tells the story of a little, inquisitive and short-sighted young snake named Kaabriel, whose unconventional ways help him defeat the bully of the jungle – the scary ´two-legged` It.
This fun children’s film tells the story of a little, inquisitive and short-sighted young snake named Kaabriel, whose unconventional ways help him defeat the bully of the jungle – the scary ´two-legged` It.
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2012
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Animation, Cartoon
| Director:
Priit Tender
The Maggot Feeder is an ancient Chukchi folk tale.
A man decides to kill his wife because she can't have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach...
The Maggot Feeder is an ancient Chukchi folk tale. It takes us on a journey to the darkest alleys of the human mind.
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2015
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Riho Unt
A dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home who is just one day not coming any more..
A dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home who is just one day not coming any more... From this particular day there starts their mutual life. Popi, beeing actually smarter and stronger, capitulates in front of monkey's whims symbolising with it his obedience and subservientness. At the other hand, Huhuu symbolises licentiousness and silliness.
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2001
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Mikk Rand
This is an Estonian fairytale about Mosquitoes who affirm to fight and win Horse.
The Horse is big, but Mosquitoes there are more then many… This is ironical story of beeing an estonian. The main character for this nation is split minded thinking and action. The symbol of slow and incautious estonian is The Horse Mosquitos in the other side show their self-motivation and the will of self-development and obduracy, as well.
Outrageous musical fairytale for universal audience, but it is special style for folk-lovers.
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2022
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Animation, Puppet, Comedy, Horror
| Director:
Mikk Mägi
A mysterious Snakepig kidnaps the Old Man's beloved pig! Now the Old Man has twenty-four hours to neutralize the pig before the whole village is blown up by a pig bomb. Or is it?
A mysterious Snakepig steals the Old Man's prized pig. Now the Old Man has twenty-four hours to defuse the pig bomb, or the whole village will blow up! Priidik asks the Old Man to start the rusty tractor to stop the Snakepig. But the Oldman has red the critics devastating review of the Old Man Film in the newspaper and does not want to commit himself to a new feature film. The old man prefers short sketches for a full-feature film. In the sketches, the Old Man has to give birth in the barn, we meet a scary monster that ...
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2017
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Animation, Cartoon, Fairy Tale
| Director:
Meelis Arulepp, Sean Mullen
A lonely office worker saves up to buy a new coat at Christmas in an effort to make new friends, only for fate take a ghostly hand.
It’s Christmas eve in New York, 1932. Alexi, a large old Russian man, arrives home to find that his young granddaughter has decided to stay up late in the hopes of getting her present early from Santa. Feeling a bit homesick, he sits down with her in front of the open fire and they begin to talk. When she asks about Santa, Alexi gets her to close her eyes and gives her his big old coat as a “present”. But when she complains about the smell he starts telling a story… The story brings us back to the beautiful city ...
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1988
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Heino Pars
A Crow found a pea and decided to cook a soup with it.
A Crow finds a pea and decides to cook a soup with it. Other animals in the wood suggest to grow some peas more for soup. Water is already boiling, but there is more peas still no growing. The animals decide to research is this really the pea…
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2006
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Rao Heidmets
A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation ingenous for a long time,but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
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2002
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Animation, Puppet
| Director:
Riho Unt, Julia Pihlak
A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still belived in happy solutions.
A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still belived in happy solutions.
