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  • Instinct
    Instinct

    Original title: Instinkt

    2003 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Rao Heidmets

    What happens when the Maker loses controle over his creation and it starts to obay it's own will. .

  • The Carrot
    The Carrot

    Original title: Porgand

    2003 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Pärtel Tall

    This is Carrot that unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn’t have a carrot. But the Snowman has it.

  • Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town
    Kalamaja-Possibility of a Wooden Town

    Original title: Kalamaja-puitlinna võimalus

    2001 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Rasmus Bullerby

    Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.

  • Terra Maritima
    Terra Maritima

    Original title: Terra Maritima

    2001 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Ago Ruus

    The basis for the dynamic community of the European Union is the harmonization of certain rules. This applies to preservation of nature as well, and thus we hear more and more about the mysterious Natura 2000. Natura 2000 is a Europe-wide network of nature preserves, consisting of bird preserves and nature preserves. A large part of the existing preserves in Estonia fit surprisingly easily into Natura 2000. The film shows the types of habitats in western Estonia, because it was here that the pilot project for Natura 2000 was launched. This land is many thousands of years younger than the inland – even now the earth’s crust is rising here and the land being born from the ocean – Terra Maritima – has a thousand faces. In addition to the coastline, the film introduces various types of meadows - all very valuable habitats.

  • The Lightship Kulis
    The Lightship Kulis

    Original title: Tulelaeva kulid

    2001 | 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.

  • On the Possibility of Love
    On the Possibility of Love

    Original title: Armastuse võimalikkusest

    1999 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma

    The film deals with the right of the individual to choose his own way in a complex world.

  • Primavera
    Primavera

    Original title: Primavera

    1998 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Riho Unt, Hardi Volmer

    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.

  • Tom & Fluffy
    Tom & Fluffy

    Original title: Tom ja Fluffy

    1997 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Leo Lätti

    A little village on the shore of a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy, are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is an inventor who has just invented a sugarmachine.

  • Legends of Tallinn
    Legends of Tallinn

    Original title: Tallinna legendid

    1995 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits, Leo Lätti

    The film tells about the Oleviste Church and the mysterious workman who built the tower of this church.

  • Little Lilly
    Little Lilly

    Original title: Plekkmäe Liidi

    1995 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt

    Little Lilly starves herself to protest her father's contradictory stance against flies.

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