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Poop, Spring and the Others: Photo That Came to Life

Original title: Pilt, mis öösel liigutas

2023 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Mikk Mägi

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside!

It is Peter’s first summer in the countryside! All seems to be going well until the innkeeper's dead grandfather tries to eat him.
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Nostos Algos

2022 | Students film, Exercises (Fiction) | Director: Greta Liht

Film student Greta Liht`s short movie is about childhood and how to let those memories and places go. Therefore the main topic is letting go.

Luna goes back to her childhood home to retrieve childhood recordings hidden in a closet. Meeting the new owner and listening to old tapes made her realize that it is time to let those old memories go and she must move on with life.
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Sierra

2022 | Animation, Puppet | Director:

A boy accidentally turns himself into a car tire.

Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
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Till We Meet Again

Original title: Taaskohtumine

2021 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

This is first and foremost a story about humanity, about losing one’s home and then getting it back again. It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

This is a story about an elderly woman whose destiny has taken her far away from her home island. She is finally able to return, only to find out that strangers have been living in her house. Animation short talks about the tragic history of a small Ruhnu Island. Fearing for their lives, its entire population abandoned their homes while escaping the war in 1944. Decades later they had a chance to finally return, only to find out that the strangers had settled in. In addition to the twists and turns of the history, the film looks deeper into the meaning ...
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Insides out

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Johanna Alvin

Media student Johanna Alvin's short film talks about a young boy growing up in a family of organ harvesters.

Felix has always been a nice kid who just accidentally was born into the family of organ harvesters. He is not really thrilled by the business and rather spends all his time with his best friend Danny. However when Danny goes missing, Felix suspects the worst - his own family. Felix decides to get revenge on his father but this would turn him into this sick person who his father already is. After gathering clues and coming up with a plan, Felix finds a way to make his father pay for good.
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Time Capsule

Original title in Estonian: Ajakapsel

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Eric Romero

Desolate and troubled, a young woman confronts the root cause of her issues - her father.

Emeri (26) comes across a map from her childhood - a map that marks the location of a time capsule buried 19 years earlier- and memories come back rushing. Desolate and friendless, she then contacts her estranged father to dig up the time capsule together. Emeri must find a way to put the past finally at rest.
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The End

Original title in Estonian: Lõpp

2019 | Students film, Short | Director: Sandra Kartau

Sandra Kartau’s short film is about growing up and the obstacles on the way.

Jakob is a young boy that has been hampered by his father in power, but his school is now starting. Expulsion from home and meeting new people creates confronting feelings about the world in Jakob, and his father's divinity begins to blur. In addition, while taking a walk home the boy gets acquainted with Linda, whose world view is so interesting for the boy that he decides to stay with her for some time and also visit her later. The essence of Linda is a major influence on the formation of a new worldview of a boy. About a couple of weeks after ...
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Letting Go

Original title: Lahtilaskmise lugu

2017 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Story about a young girl from orphanage who wants to let go of the shadows that haunt her past.

Our culture is based on stories. Stories make up our foundation. We can look at our lives as a story – our biography is our life story. Like the stories, some people are tragic and some are funny and some we do not understand at all.  But what happens when these stories shouldn’t be told? Is it possible to let go of a story, to give it up? Is it possible to make a film about a girl whose only desire is to be rid of her story and to forget it for good?  Ülo Pikkov's animated documentary is about ...
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Empty Space

Original title: Tühi ruum

2016 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Ülo Pikkov

Documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.

A 10-years old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her disappointment was very big when instead puppy she got father she had no idea he was still alive. This documentary based film tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually will come true only now, through this film.
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Papa

2014 | Animation, Other types of animation | Director: Girlin Bassovskaja

Mother tries to keep together a family that is falling to pieces. It is nearly an impossible task if the other side is not making an equal effort.

Mother tries to keep together a family that is falling to pieces. It is nearly an impossible task if the other side is not making an equal effort. Also the child will miss love, while still trying to trust and love a person that might have never existed. There has been only imagination and hope, that this person is alive, or that he might be. He is being waited for... endlessly. And when he is finally there…would it then be the right time?
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