SPECIAL PROGRAMME - Flesh & Joy

ANIMIST TALLINN 2025 | 20–23 August                       


ARTIS SMALL HALL
Friday, 22 August 2025
9:25 PM – 10:40 PM
75 minutes

Hot sex, dripping saliva, deep moans. Taste the pleasure of your body, feel it slicker and slicker as it drips from your fingers. Give in to the naughty, to the hunger that consumes you— enjoying the pleasure of the flesh until it lasts.

Tickets available HERE!


Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:

12 Inch Pianist

Director: Lucas Ansel
Year: 2025
Length: 7 min 28 sec
Country: United States
Production: Rhode Island School of Design

A bar joke goes awry, unraveling into a surreal tale that explores the acceptance of self, others, and queer identity.
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A Man Accidentally Went Into Women's Sauna

Director: Peeter Ritso
Year: 2025
Length: 2 min 18 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: SpetsFilms

A man goes to sauna after workout. In a dizzy state he accidentally goes into women's sauna. He sees his mistake and hides as a known Turkish statue with soap and sponge before the women come. The women fall for the trick, but test the statue. They will get a shampoo ending.
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An Explosive Love Story

Director: Adina Oana Enache
Year: 2024
Length: 2 min 29 sec
Country: Italy
Production: Isia Urbino

An explosive love story is an animated short film about two hunters who fall in love. Despite their passion, they cannot bring themselves to accept their feelings.
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Cheeese!

Director: Elena Wiener and Josefine Maier
Year: 2025
Length: 1 min 35 sec
Country: Germany
Production: Studio Zweisiedlerkrebs

Mmmmmmm cheeese! Cutting cheese, eating cheese, licking cheese. Penetrating... cheese. An erotic ode to the enjoyment of cheese that leaves you hungry for more.
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Dear You

Director: Tanya Bozhinova
Year: 2025
Length: 8 min 26 sec
Country: Bulgaria
Production: New Bulgarian University

Fighting words and feelings, a man embarks on an emotional journey to confess his love.
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Glasshouse

Director: Katalin Sárdi
Year: 2025
Length: 8 min 15 sec
Country: Hungary
Production: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

The glasshouse is a metaphorical space in the head of an artist, in which the characters symbolize different feelings and thoughts towards creation. These characters meet up to shoot a film (make art), however the process leaves an unexpected impact on each of them.
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Love in the Time of Inflation

Director: Connie Hsueh
Year: 2024
Length: 2 min 37 sec
Country: Poland
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz

A young woman goes shopping despite the tough times of inflation.
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My Good Boy

Director: Sara Priorelli
Year: 2025
Length: 5 min 56 sec
Country: Hungary
Production: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

A day in the life of a woman who is busy taking care of her obese dog. Her lovely show of affection towards the animal is interrupted by the arrival of her partner, who, in need of the woman's attention, affects the cozy atmosphere of the house.
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She and Her Good Vibrations

Director: Olivia Griselda and Sarah Cheok
Year: 2023
Length: 10 min 48 sec
Country: Singapore
Production: Finding Pictures

A stressed-out, middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but she soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.
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The Dog

Director: Kaspar Jancis
Year: 2025
Length: 5 min 40 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Rebel Frame

Midnight Student wants to charm a special lady called Moon Orchid, but his physique fails to impress her. Eager to improve his situation, Midnight Student goes to a miracle doctor.

Inspired by ancient Chinese erotic literature, the absurdist and allegorical story serves as a comical mirror to our modern vanities.

Treiler: https://vimeo.com/1077582694/9c00c99bf8
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To The Lake

Director: Rusnė Dragūnevičiūtė
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min 48 sec
Country: United Kingdom
Production: Royal College of Art

A phone conversation between friends, reminiscing about their plan to go skinny dipping at night, secretly from others on a weekend getaway. However, they end up enjoying the planning itself so much that they never execute the plan.