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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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Life on the Mother River

Original title: Emajõe veemaailm

2015 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Remek Meel

Little Aleksander Remek together with his filmmaker dad discover the world of the ancient River Emajõgi (Mother River in Estonian).

The River Emajõgi forms a powerful water world hiding an ancient life. Little Aleksander together with his filmmaker father Remek Meel discovers Alam-Pedja nature reserve and the secrets of its enchanting world. Father and son get acquainted with the hidden life of eagles, beavers, otters, waxwings, great snipes, ravens, penduline tits and Ural owls.
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Lemonade Tale

Original title: Limonaadi lugu

2013 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Vallo Toomla

Little Holger wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy Holger still takes a bottle off the shelf and.... gets sucked into the lemonade bottle!

Little Holger goes shopping together with his mom. Holger wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy Holger still takes a bottle off the shelf and.... gets sucked into the lemonade bottle! He falls into a dark-green bubble-soda ocean. He is unable to get back to the real world where his mother is already looking for him. Beeing trapped in the bubble-soda bottle he finds a friend who is ready to help him to return.
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Delta

2011 | Documentary, Nature | Director: Vassili Sarana
The Snow Queen

Original title: Lumekuninganna

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Marko Raat

The winter fairy tale for grown-ups written and directed by Marko Raat is based on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.

A woman living in the ice castle coaxes a young boy to live with her. The boy is so enchanted by the beauty of the woman and the ice kingdom that he will soon forget about the real world. She hides her secret from the boy, not telling him the reason why she lives in cold. The romantic drama tells about the beginning of all-powerful love. The visually fascinating "The Snow Queen" has been mostly filmed in an ice-cream storage building where a special film set was built. The ground was flooded with enormous amount of water that was ...
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Black Ceiling

Original title: Must lagi

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender, Priit Pärg, Olga Marchenko, Mati Kütt

Estonia’s first animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling illustrating works by Estonian poets.

Seven animated poems. The Black Ceiling Project is a vision of 7 classic Estonian poems by 7 Estonian animators. Each two-minute film illustrates a more or less well-known text exactly the way the author of the film sees fit. The idea of the project is to create something new and unexpected by combining two branches of art. It is an experiment that unites visual poetry, or animation, with actual poetry.
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Lights in The Night

Original title: Tuled öös

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing.

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing. We see a row of windows of an apartment building. Individual windows at first – some windows are dark, some are open and people bustle about, living, being born, dying, splitting up, rejoicing, being sad. We briefly see around twenty tiny incidents in the lives of various people – as much as can be seen through an open window or an opening in the curtains. This is perhaps only a completely insignificant and random moment, but nevertheless, if we imagine further, we can guess what might ...
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Substantia Stellaris

Original title: Substantia stellaris

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt

Ilmar Laaban’s poetry written in the Cosmos scatters like filings, builds up in our senses and spreads out in our bodies as stellar substance.

Ilmar Laaban’s poetry written in the Cosmos scatters like filings, builds up in our senses and spreads out in our bodies as stellar substance.
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Tablemat of Baltic Sea

Original title: Läänemerelinik

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Ülo Pikkov

In this film, two feathers perform a figure skating routine and draw Aleksander Suumann’s poem Tablemat of Baltic Sea on the ice.

The nature of longing is observed allegorically in the film Tablemat of Baltic Sea. People’s longings as a rule remain hidden between their pillows, but what should the feathers in the pillow do with their longings? In this film, two feathers perform a figure skating routine and draw Aleksander Suumann’s poem Tablemat of Baltic Sea on the ice.
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The Institute of The Dream

Original title: Une Instituut

2006 | 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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