SPECIAL PROGRAMME - Estonian Panorama
ARTIS SMALL HALL
Saturday, 23 August 2025
4:30 PM – 6:05 PM
95 minutes
Animal and bird kingdoms, Tallinn Old Town, outer space, giving birth in a car, robots, war – local animation, as always, dissects the themes all over the map. And they do so with unrelenting passion and wholehearted commitment.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
Anima natura
Director: Andrea Gudiño
Year: 2024
Length: 5 min 58 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
A landscape disappears, the wind begins to transform what seems immovable, sometimes like a breath of life, sometimes like a disaster, a notebook that collects landscapes eagerly seeks how to keep a record of it.
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Breed
Director: Yiyang Sun
Year: 2024
Length: 8 min 40 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
The sky is vast, the wilderness is boundless. While the lonely maple tree stands at the corner of the world, it bears thousands of seeds, transforming into butterflies, flirting and dancing over the water bubbles. They fall in love.
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Exspiro
Director: Sigrit Villido
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min
Country: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
At the end of the world, a remnant of a human searches for a breath of air.
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Flow of Being
Director: Helen Unt
Year: 2024
Length: 11 min 11 sec
Country: Estonia, Bulgaria
Production: Undi Teod, Compote Collective
A person is in the flow. They make a decision and keep flowing until all becomes one.
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Idyll
Director: Rao Heidmets
Year: 2025
Length: 10 min
Country: Estonia
Production: Rao Heidmets Film Studio
There are good things and important things in life. And there are vital things. If you want to survive, don't let comfort drown out your instincts: you have to fight for your life long before the war reaches your backyard. And when the war is already in the yard, drawing the curtains won't help, and it may happen that the most healthy advice comes from where you wouldn't expect it - for example, from a parrot with life experience.
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Maaimä
Director: Lucija Mrzljak
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min 23 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Lucija Mrzljak & Mari Kalkun
Maaimä is a music video made in collaboration with the renowned Estonian musician Mari Kalkun. Maaimäis a song from Mari Kalkun's new album Stoonia lood, released in September 2023. It talks about the contradictory relationship between man and nature. With the evergrowing world population, Mother Nature can hardly carry the burden humans have become. Climate change, overpopulation, habitat loss for wildlife, and loss of species diversity are concerns that affect and speak to all of us, regardless of our geographical location. Musically, the song is a multi-layered piece that blends together traditional music and electronic sounds. It is sung in Võro, a dialect from south-east Estonia.
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Miisufy
Director: Liisi Grünberg
Year: 2023
Length: 10 min 28 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: AAA Creative
Miisu, a virtual pet cat, grows weary of her owner and begins to rebel. The Tamagotchi-inspired "Miisufy" lets users view the world through the perspective of virtual animals.
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Point and Line to Cosmos
Director: Pablo Ballarin
Year: 2023
Length: 8 min 30 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Rebel Frame
A cosmic entity talks to humankind. Meanwhile, three dinosaurs cross the desert guided by a shooting star. An intersection of sci-fi, creation story and dinosaurs.
Treiler: https://vimeo.com/1098804608
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Robot Leo
Director: Piret Sigus and Silja Saarepuu
Year: 2025
Length: 8 min 19 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Animailm
Leo is a robot who lives in his cosy rusty house with a cat. On a fine day, a first guest ever, Lilleliisu, is coming to visit him. For this special event he starts to make preparations - the table needs to be set. The closer the guest gets, the greater Leo's anxiety grows.
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Top 10 Things to See
Director: Mihkel Reha
Year: 2025
Length: 14 min 15 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
Something large and dark arrives in the seaside old town. A summer storm? No, it’s a gigantic cruise ship filled with curious tourists. So much to see — so little time! The magnificent Old Town with ten world-famous attractions. How many of them can you recognize? The group is led by a local guide. Tighten your sandal straps — narrow cobblestone streets await.