COMPETITION PROGRAMME 6 - Estonian Special
ARTIS LARGE HALL
Friday, 22 August 2025
7:40 PM – 9:10 PM
90 minutes
A freezing porcelain girl, a grandmother hidden in a sewing machine, a girl who turns into a poppy flower, a dog food connoisseur - before you now stand these and many other new Estonian animation heroes.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
On Weary Wings Go By
Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Year: 2024
Length: 10 min 34 sec
Country: Estonia, Lithuania
Production: Fork Film, ART SHOT, Moon Birds Studios
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2eAjMSZrBE
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Poppy Flowers
Director: Evridiki Papaiakovou
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min 24 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
A visual poetry that unravels the intricate relationship between a mother and her daughter, contemplating on conventional notions of divinity.
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Sewing Machine
Director: Ülo Pikkov
Year: 2024
Length: 16 min 37 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Silmviburlane
The life story of my great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine box.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1099605844
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Taming Phenomena
Director: Shunyuan Yao
Year: 2025
Length: 9 min 6 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
To tame phenomena, you're required to relinquish your control of chaos. A film on discussion and conversation with animation, shifting between the paradigms of animation and ideas.
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The Little Other
Director: Andres Tenusaar
Year: 2024
Length: 12 min
Country: Estonia
Production: OÜ Nukufilm
In our film two babies are about to be born. One of them is bound to be a regular kid. The other is destined to be a trickster. There's the rub - how to determine which is which, since the birth of identical twins in itself is a trick performed by Nature!
Nobody is aware of what is about to happen next - the existing of life have unanimously been abolished. The new ones are yet to be established.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/888674073
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Winter in March
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Year: 2025
Length: 16 min 22 sec
Country: Estonia, Armenia, France, Belgium
Production: ArtStep-studio, Rebel Frame, Estonian Academy of Arts, Black
Boat Pictures, White Boat Pictures
A young Russian couple, feeling helplessness and sadness over the war, decides to leave their home for good. Their journey to Georgia becomes a surrealist nightmare. Snow follows them as they reach the border. Their greatest fear—being separated at the border—catches up with them from an unexpected angle.
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World Worry Web
Director: Nadiia Pliamko
Year: 2024
Length: 5 min 24 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: Pliamko St
A member of the network generation begins his freelancing day with the “elephant” in the room, but is unable to complete tasks, ignoring another circumstance - he is connected to the outside world by material connections. And the perception of the world now occurs directly through his subconscious. Such exposure to the nervous system entails new risks of the consequences of merging with society via the Internet.
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Yummy
Director: Martinus Klemet
Year: 2024
Length: 8 min 45 sec
Country: Estonia
Production: AAA Creative
Julia works as a dog food tester. However, after a breakup, dog food will never taste the same.