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- 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..."
- 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?
- Snowman with a carrot nose is escaping from the Hare. During the pursuit they both occur to be on the stage of the theatre, in the backstage where the pivotal events take place. By the end of a strange show the chase is over too and they both leave the theatre richer than they had ever dared to hope.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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'.
- Who is Miriam? Miriam is a willful little girl, who, due to her vivid imagination and desire to be independent, gets into all kinds of humorous situations and adventures. She has her own childish dreams and also serious problems: when I grow up...; do gnomes really exist?; will my new teeth grow and why can't I learn the poem by heart and what on earth does 'conduct' mean? Miriam is a cheerful child with a great desire to learn about the things around her and participate in everything and organize things as much as she can.
- It is a political parody film against totalitarian system of violence, about the careless game of power that has been played with the world and peoples. The film creates a model situation in which a lumpen gambler, playing with a slot-machine and thinking he is the master of the situation, turns out to be just a little screw nut in the machinery of the game of power. There is an actor used in this film.
- 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"!
- Something always happens with young hippos in Estonia. Jippos Happy the Hippo is a hefty hippopotamus weighing 350 kg. He is more energetic than most hippos and he is curious about everything new and interesting. Jippos is most friendly and polite but sometimes slightly absent-minded and thus tends to get into trouble. His brother Pippo Happy the Hippo is a bit smaller than Hippo and weighs 150 kg. He is clever and more moderate in character. When Hippo is in trouble he is there to help him out.
- 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.
- The folklore of practically all the worlds peoples abounds with mysterious beings possessing supernatural powers. Who of us has not heard of nor read stories about gnomes,elves,golems,leprechauns etc?In this film,skeptical city people from the information society who are surrounded by high technology meet mythological beings from the legends of their ancestors with intriguing and comical results.
- 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.
- A mortally-wounded young soldier is in a crater and a bunch of hungry rats from the battlefield try to find the answer to the question "Who is Lily Marleen?" Is it a memory picture of the first love of past times, or the first intercourse with a prostitute earning her regular income? Lily is not only a distant hero from a song. Every soldier has his own Lily, be it the first love from school, front prostitute, or simply a phantasm. But always, however, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate.
- "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.
- 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.
- A puppet game between an Angel and a Devil grows over two opposing power-the Masters and the Miller - into a battle which proves to be a test of strength between the two puppets. A Girl one of the film's most essential though overshadowed characters, observes the entire affair. This film which includes both human and puppet characters speaks of hidden forces within us, both good and evil, and of the balance between them.
- 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.
- Miriam's parents are not at home. She, her little brother and the Hen are watching swimming ducks on TV. As the Hen becomes jealous, Miriam decides to bath it in the bath-tube. This triggers a dangerous adventure which, luckily, has a happy ending.
- Miriam and her little brother play hide and seek with the chicken. There is some confusion when the chicken is locked in the cupboard and tomato sauce is spilled on the ground.
- While playing, two children find some black-and-white photographs that make their whole room go black-and-white. They send their chicken friend to the rainbow to bring some color back.
- 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.
- 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.
- The hen enjoys playing around with kites. When Miriam has no more time for it, the hen convinces the little brother to go along. But the kite is too big for little brother and it flies him up to a treetop. Miriam and the hen need to act fast to get him down. As joint effort it works.
- Envy goes before a fall! Up a tree, on a nest box there is a starling trilling to Miriam. This is spotted by Hen, sitting tediously on a window-ledge. As Father has just finished making a scooter for the little brother, Hen requires that he should make a nest box for her ...
- The family is on an outing. Mother and father are laying the picnic table, meanwhile 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 hen is brave now and ends up as the hero of the day...
- A lonely, hopeless man discovers in himself an ability to fall in love. His beloved is the same kind of outcast of society as himself. Together they are trying to escape from the roles and productiveness imposed and will try to find a way to a new and happy life.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- It is said that if a man is fading away, he sees his life running quickly in front of his eyes. What does a hundred-year old film strip see before it gives way to digital vehicles? Does it see broken frames, scratched film stock, or something else?
- The stubborn goat is fighting with its reflection in the water. The reflection revives. In the course of the battle of goats form more complicated mirror-worlds, where the pictures become more miscellaneous to the accompaniment of music rhytms.
- 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..
- The winter ghost The story is about 9-year old Hendrick and Annie, and about their relationship. They have to find their own ways to overcome social prejudices before they can become true friends. Poverty and social injustice were part of children's life in Pieter Bruegel's world, and they still are in our time. Emotionally the story is about, how it feels to be treated unjustly, a feeling that most of the children experience in some stage of their lives. The Winter Ghost" is, however, told as a classical children's tale and it ends happily. There is humour and fantasy which add more dimensions to the basically quite realistic tale. All these elements make the film suitable for a wide audience, both children and family, and I believe that it works well as a holiday special. Anonymous
- Anything can happen at sea. You are eating your daily sandwich on the deck of the ship when suddenly some shark with its dorsal fin swollen from greed, or gigantic sly seagull, or a spicy storm that has just capsized a spice ship, attacks you. That is just the way it is at sea, and those storm are the absolute worst. But nevertheless, as opposed to other ships, one ship must always be at sea, even if it is raining stone herrings from the sky! These thirteen 10-minute entertaining and educational stories are made for children aged 5 - 9. The stories are free of violence and takes place in the middle of a stormy sea filled with reefs. It is about a two brave guys - Kuli and Kuuli, and their gorgeous and un-gorgeous acquaintances.
- 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...
- At bedtime, Sandman Matis footprints appear from nowhere on the sand. The Master of Dreams spreads the dream sand in co-operation with Pillow Katis onto piglet, gentlemen in black, the tumbler, a rabbit chasing hunter and on angel Tõnu. The Pillow Katis put dream pillows under every faller to make the falling asleep softer and safer as well. Sandman Mati also strew dream sand onto the eyelids of a sleepless child.
- 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.