SPECIAL PROGRAMME - Kaspar Jancis: No Tears for the Crocodile
ARTIS SMALL HALL
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
75 minutes
The “grand fun man” of Estonian animation, Kaspar Jancis, presents his animated films, with musical interludes by the ensemble “Pidur” – a music group led by the artist himself.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
Cosmonaut
Director: Kaspar Jancis
Year: 2019
Length: 11 min 38 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.
Treiler: https://vimeo.com/362018681
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Crocodile
Director: Kaspar Jancis
Year: 2009
Length: 16 min 38 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
The story of a former opera star who must by the will of Fate work as a Crocodile in a styrofoam costume entertaining children in the children’s playroom of a shopping centre. This kind of life seems joyless and even disgusting to the former leading tenor, and he vents his frustration by behaving rudely. Until one day, into his life enters a fateful woman and… a crocodile.
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Marathon
Director: Kaspar Jancis
Year: 2006
Length: 14 min 38 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
A small town is gripped with excitement in anticipation of the annual marathon. Instead of the starting shot, a bomb explodes. A chain of events is set off and nobody can guess how it will end. The police inspector, a sculptor, a gang of crooks operating in the vicinity of a public lavatory – all of them have to go through their own marathon. Only a balloon released by chance glides on its own without knowing how things began or how they will end.
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Piano
Director: Kaspar Jancis
Year: 2015
Length: 10 min 11 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
Marta hauls a piano home from a shop that sells used musical instruments. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds.
A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.
Treiler: https://vimeo.com/128852114