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- Red Iron Road is an animated horror anthology series, based on the works of famous European authors. Each of the episodes are between 10-20 minutes, produced with different creative partners in unique visual styles to suit each story.
- A love triangle between an artist, picture and sculpture.
- Every ship deserves its captain.
- Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
- "Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short films make a whole cinema evening. Unique thereby is the selection of young directors, who are currently among the most talented in the Central and Eastern European region. Also special is that five of the short films (four short narrative films and one short documentary) are visually framed by an independent animation story. The filmmakers made their films with local producers in their home countries; post-production was carried out in Germany. The theme "generation" is the thread running through the whole film. It mirrors a new self-understanding of young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe. Traditions and national history are viewed in a new way and cinematically narrated. The concept of generation was not intended to neutralize the differences between the countries, but to create a fascinating frame for comparison. The stories were written in accordance with this thematic guideline especially for this project.
- A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life until one day, he is offered a home, but this doesn't mean a lifelong happiness.
- Our bodies remember more that we can expect and imagine; our bodies also remember the sorrow and pain of our predecessors. Our bodies sustain the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as they ancestors. But how far back is it possible to go in body memory?
- This 3D animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type, bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!
- A little boy and his big dream - toy soldiers with souls, who would close their eyes, when dying.
- It is a parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on a plot of land that belongs to a poor Estonian peasant woman. This super-cabbage attracts adventures from America, China and Soviet Russia. Against a background of chasing and hunting two young people find their love.
- Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.
- The heroes of the film are three bear cubs from the cult painting by Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in a Pine Forest." After losing their painter mom, three brothers--Henry, Vincent, and August--appear in Paris, the City of Light every creator dreams of. All attempts to earn their living as artists fail. Their impressionistic "collies" won't be acknowledged. Under cover as circus lions, the bear cubs travel back to Russia to find their mother's heritage.
- It is an absolutely wonderful Barbieland made of plastic. Life there is safe, but in one morning line-up the Queen has to listen to the well-known fatal words: "You my Queen are the fairest in the world but Dennis-Dolly is even fairer..." All happens as in the well-known fairy-tale. To the point where Dolly's new friends - the old abandoned dolls - are faced with a problem: which of them is the divine Dolly when the only identifying features on them are their clothes and accessories? Is this worth dying for?
- Little brother falls ill and gets all of the attention and care of the rest of the family. Miriam feels unhappy. In the end she cannot think of anything else besides painting the spots of the illness on her own face. The chicken is definitely involved, and experiences analogous emotions to Miriam's.
- With the help of Põrguneitsi, the mythological virgin of hell, a young man saves the world. When he later comes to understand that he has not changed anyone's attitude, he destroys the world again.
- What happens when the Maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?
- A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows a beautiful, exciting life with kitchen utensils? The viewer never sees this woman intact; the camera moves along her body--rather, along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same. From time to time, different insects appear to laugh over the woman's innocent dreams, just as guzzling and unreliable dreams. They predict the end and death, nobody knows--through guillotine or kitchen knife.
- One night there gather weird figures to the Karahundzhi Palteau. They are the figures of God created by Man in different times and cultures - puppets. At the same time in some technical center they are printing out all letter combinations in all known languages. According to Tibetan monks this act - writing down all the names of God - will bring along the end of the universe. The Creator has decided to introduce the gods to each other before the great end.
- Miriam is in the kitchen making a milkshake with the food processor. The chicken, too, is interested in the appliance, but keeps pressing the wrong buttons, finally making it crash onto the floor. As Miriam is busy ironing, the chicken starts fixing the food processor herself. It seems to work. Later mother wants to use it, but the appliance has gone berserk - it turns out that the chicken has climbed into it.
- The 10-minute animated film "FOX WOMAN" is based on a legend of Mapuche Indians. It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, and gets cruelly cast down. In the film the personification of animals provides this slightly absurd legend with social context. The film as a whole could be classified as a comedy and its main audience could be teenagers.
- This is Carrot that unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes persecuted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays it again and again. The coming beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
- Is it possible to reach the moon in one breath? Yes, it is if you have the will to fly and the appropriate training. This is the case with postman Rain. This is not simply the journey of a postman to deliver the package to the Moon. It is also a philosophical journey in time and eras, through people and their characters, through thaugths and imagination. This is a visual version of thoughts and imagination of a postman who is fulfilling his task in spite of all problems and distractions.
- There exists a most exquisite man, or at least the world that surrounds him, labels and sees him as such. He has fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent, he could even be called a genius, yet something within him is restless. Big questions utterly absorb him, leading him to a place where all he can do is surrender his life, in order to find that which gives him and the natural world undeniable purpose and concluding peace.
- Freedom is looking for a form to manifest itself. An allegoric story of Architect-Matchstickman who helps to give the life for the new Generation.
- This film should be the artistic approach to our nearest future. We can see media to play continously more greater role in the arrangement of the social life. How we can get more precise results in the surveys? How the big and biggist companies can answer the requirements of vast consumers by changing themselves? The result of all this is a vulgar and rude 'modern world'.
- A fairytale about the mice and the raven, which is stronger and which is cleverer.
- Two lonely personages from completely different worlds meet and become close. A live bird in a cage and a metal-and-wood cuckoo from a clock are the creatures through which local cultural identities and their occasional contacts are observed. The parrot and artificial cuckoo then beget an offspring - a weird hybrid of wood, metal and feathers; an aggressive and obstinate personage...
- Miaiam, the Hen and Little Brother watch a performance of Little Red Riding Hood. They are emotionally involved in everything, especially fearing the appearance of the wolf.
- A film about the influence of society on the life of an individual. We can follow the career of one life from childhood to maturity; from the pioneer scarves and Soviet Army to family responsibilities. We can see how a man, whose personality is eliminated and who is thrown from a well-organized world of rules and regulations into another system, is barely able to find himself in the new circumstances.
- The children become so exited of the play with typing-machine and paper that they don't notice how evening comes. In the apple-tree behind the Grandpa's barn there is a bird-nest. We understand how everything circulates harmoniously in Nature, how evening-peace and dream arrive.
- Primavera (1998) is a three dimensional family film featuring puppets that work in the so called telescope system which tries with the help of stylized images to visually depict the great variety existing in nature, the food chain and variations in the reproduction of different living organisms. This is a love story in which the motifs of the "Ugly Duckling" fairy tale can be discerned. The entire film is seen through the eyes of a butterfly larva.
- The film's narrative is based on a traditional Estonian fairytale, telling the story of a group of mosquitoes that challenge a horse to a contest of strength. As the film begins, it evokes an almost documentary sensibility, in part through its use of voice-over narration (in English). Though the film might at first seem to be a relatively traditional work, it is not long until this impression changes, and drastically. The character design and voice recording, along with fantastically unrestricted cinematography and editing, combine with folk songs (sung in Estonian, with English subtitles) that might be described as 'quirky' or maybe just 'really odd.' Some dialogue is presented in 'word bubbles' printed on the film as well. So much is going on, on so many levels, that the film defies its viewer to look away -- and who would want to? It's all wonderful. The Mosquito and the Horse clearly demonstrates how successful a film can be operating outside the classical Hollywood model.
- A Man comes into this world. He searches for something, runs across a Power, and gets shocked of it. He becomes convinced by the rightness of the Power. He is not able to separate right from wrong anymore. He makes a mistake and dies, but the Goodness will give him a new trial--a new possibility to make mistakes.
- 1-minute animation film about "Vulcain".
- The family is outing. Mother and father are laying the picnic table, the small ones start playing on a meadow. The hen wanders into somebody's vegetable patch and is scared to half-death seeing a scarecrow. Everybody starts looking for her and the little brother encounters a snake. But the chicken is brave now and ends up as the hero of the day..
- A story about a young man who in an absurd situation insists on remaining a human being as if he still believed in happy solutions.
- Miriam will not let the hen bring the ball inside. The hen does not obey, and then wants somebody to play ball with her. She even snatches the remote control so that Miriam and little brother would not be able to watch TV. Chasing the hen to get the remote control back, little brother happens to break father's and mother's wedding picture. And appears very unhappy and scared. When parents come home, Miriam takes the blame on herself. She is made to stand in the corner for punishment. Little brother cannot bear it and admits his guilt. When it turns out that during the chase the remote control has also suffered damage, the hen finally has to confess that she was behind it all. Short synopsis: Miriam takes the blame on herself instead of little brother. Little brother cannot bear it and admits his guilt. But finally the hen has to confess that she was behind it all.
- Before the Christmas a strange world of dwarfs awakens. Snow-white dwarfs make presents of snow and ice. During the course of work the dwarfs become colored themselves - their world becomes beautiful and gets idea of existence.
- Strange things happen in the Christmas Eve. A greedy fox snaffles presents from Father Frost's sledge, but the Dwarf and two toys enliven by him bring the presents to the children. The fox is forgiven and the Christmas-peace is restored.
- A documentary with the elements of animation about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who despite changing times have become masters of their domain... The time of occurring of the real events is in a documentary "The Kings of Time" is not actually essential. It may be yesterday, today, tomorrow... And it may happen to you... and to me... However, in the film, it all took place in the 1950s, the time when the first Sputnik was launched to the space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built. At the same time, in a far corner of the Soviet Union, two Estonian men started to play with puppets. Why? The protagonists of the 72-minute documentary are two different film directors, two different creators: Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars, who, in spite of the changing times, have established themselves as the kings of time... and, quoting the chronicle films of their time: "were the first Estonians who have flown all the way to the roof of the World cinema..."
- There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
- Everyday love affair.
- In the high seas, a legless Fisherman meets a big two-headed Ship, where weird handless Creatures are dancing around their big Goddess. She gives birth to a child while the battle between their Ship and Fisherman is going on... The ship sinks and Fisherman's Iceberg-home sinks too. Somewhere life goes on, surrounded by a wedding-car's music: Beach Boy's "Surfin'USA"!
- Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. he lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather's fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. What will she draw instead of her past childhood?