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Filmstill Dog-Apartment

Dog-Apartment

Koerkorter
Priit Tender
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Estonia
2022
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
English

Driven by the barking of the voracious rented apartment, an aged ballet dancer makes his way through a permanently rain-drenched wasteland to his monotonous job. The protagonist makes graceful movements to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and seems briefly fulfilled. But the audience? Pearls before cows! Priit Tender’s caustic, surreal stop motion animation is a free association inspired by a poem by Andres Ehin about a grueling, gluttonous daily routine that’s gone to the dogs.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Priit Tender
Script
Priit Tender
Cinematographer
Ragnar Neljandi
Editor
Priit Tender
Producer
Kerdi Oengo
Sound
Gabriel Solis
Score
Neoton Familia, Ion Suruceanu
Animation
Marili Sokk, Egert Kesa
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Re-Visions 2020
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The Institute of the Dream
Mati Kütt
The great sandman enchants his clients with grains of slumber while busy helpers fluff up pillows so that everyone who is sleepy may lie softly.
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The Institute of the Dream

Une instituut
Mati Kütt
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Estonia
2006
11 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The day is dwindling, and the world is exhausted. The hour of the great sandman has come. He enchants his clients with grains of slumber while busy helpers fluff up pillows so that everyone who is sleepy may lie softly. At some point, almost everybody is likely to sense that there are more things between night and day than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Mati Kütt
Script
Mati Kütt
Cinematographer
Urmas Jõemees
Editor
Mati Kütt, Urmas Jõemees
Producer
Nukufilm
Sound
Horret Kuus
Score
Andres Tenusaar
Animation
Märt Kivi
Filmstill The Last Relic

The Last Relic

Viimane reliikvia
Marianna Kaat
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe 2023
Documentary Film
Estonia,
Norway
2023
104 minutes
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

In the passing busses and trams, people look out of the windows in disbelief. The reverse shot shows a crowd of protesters. Two dozen people perhaps, some holding signs, one shouting “Putin behind bars!” It is a symbolic image of the pathetic state of the Russian opposition. The year is 2017, the war of aggression against Ukraine is still to come. Over a period of several years, “The Last Relic” portrays people from different opposition groups: a student from the Marxist-Leninist “Left Block,” a teacher with sympathies for Navalny; a digger driver demands the redistribution of resources. These activists lack support, but not courage. One of them has just been released from prison and survived a hunger strike. The others must expect to be prosecuted at any moment.

The setting of this film is the Ural metropolis of Yekaterinburg. The bulk of the population, an insert announces, dreams of a “return to imperial glory.” Estonian director Marianna Kaat, born in 1965, has spent a considerable part of her life in the Soviet empire. She shows the majority society as a uniform crowd at military parades, contrasting it with the individuals of the opposition. Few films offer such insights into the latter’s continuing precarious situation.

Jan-Philipp Kohlmann

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Director
Marianna Kaat
Script
Marianna Kaat
Cinematographer
Kacper Czubak
Editor
Jesper Osmund
Producer
Marianna Kaat
Co-Producer
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Tobin Auber
Sound
Boris Frolov
Sound Design
Israel Banuelos
Score
Lauri-Dag Tüür
World Sales
Anja Dziersk
Winner of: MDR Film Prize
Re-Visions 2020
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Villa Antropoff
Vladimir Leschiov, Kaspar Jancis
The sea separates worlds: on one shore a young Moroccan with a big dream, on the other a decadent wedding party who have long lost their dreams.
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Villa Antropoff

Villa Antropoff
Vladimir Leschiov, Kaspar Jancis
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
Estonia,
Latvia
2012
13 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Once upon a time there was a young Moroccan man who had a dream, a big dream. And he wanted it to come true, so he thought, somewhere beyond the great sea, perhaps in Estonia. Meanwhile, beyond the sea, perhaps in Estonia, a decadent wedding was being celebrated at the Villa Antropoff. The guests look like Mafia and money-laundering.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Vladimir Leschiov, Kaspar Jancis
Script
Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov
Cinematographer
Līga Skirmane, Ere Tött
Editor
Kaspar Jancis, Vladimir Leschiov
Producer
Vladimir Leschiov, Kalev Tamm
Sound
Horret Kuus
Score
Kaspar Jancis
Animation
Marje Ale, Vladimir Leschiov, Tarmo Vaarmets, Karina Golovin, Ülle Metsur, Kristīne Zvirbule, Līga Skirmane
Production Company
Eesti Joonisfilm , LUNOHOD Animation Studio