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Anima Natura

A landscape disappears. The wind begins to transform what seems immovable, sometimes like a breath of life, sometimes like a windstorm. A notebook that collects landscapes eagerly seeks how to keep a record of it. Direction Andrea Gudiño Duration 6' Country Estonia Year 2024

Recents

A filmmaker delves into his personal archive, using a photocopier to repeatedly degrade images and videos, transforming them into ghostly traces of their original form. As the visuals erode, so do the certainties of memory. This experimental film explores the fragility of recollection, where each reproduction distances the image further from its source. Memory becomes an unreliable copy – a fading echo of what once was. Direction Sophia Bazelgette Duration 6' Country Estonia Year 2022

Poppy Flowers

A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals, exposing the intricate aspects of their relationship. As the daughter matures, she begins to contemplate conventional notions of divinity. The blank frames of the 35mm strip regain their function as memorabilia in the process of engraving her past onto its surface. Direction Evridiki Papaiakovou Duration 4' Language Estonian Country Estonia Year 2024

The Eastern Rain

If the rain were to fall indoors, but never outdoors ... then where would we begin to look for shelter? A place said to give refuge from bad weather or danger? Outside the fence, the bell continues to toll, and if we are not there, then perhaps it’s only a sound that rings out inside of its own mourning. I spoke to myself, he to him, she to her, the ground spoke to the ground, the trees to the tree. Meanwhile inside, that familiar, well-met rain continues to fall. Direction Milly Yencken Duration 9' Language Estonian Country Estonia Year 2023

My Mother, the Sea

“η μητέρα μου, η θάλασσα” (“My Mother, the Sea”) is a short animated film which explores and symbolically expresses the process of my grieving since the loss of my mother, from her passing until today. This three-year journey is captured allegorically in this film as a weaving of two parallel paths: the mother’s journey to the afterlife and the parallel grieving states of her child. From her last breath to my mourning and the only transient salvation from it. It is an observation of her transition, which her child follows with its personal emotional dissolve. Direction Aspasia Kazeli Duration 6' Country Estonia Year 2022

After a Whale

“After a Whale” follows the journey of a young woman in search of peace. She visits a swimming pool and enters a meditative state. Suddenly, the pool turns dark, and a killer whale passes her by. She joins him for a swim. When the girl touches the killer whale, a new connection is formed between two neurons. She reaches a higher state of awareness. A news report from another time reveals a dead whale washed ashore. Unable to bury such a large creature, the locals decide to blow it up. Despite the strange events, life continues, and so does her search for peace – even after the whale. Direction Kate Jansone Duration 5' Country Estonia Year 2025

Rejection

A short story about a boy, a girl, a bee, a flower and the sun, all of whom reject someone or are themselves rejected. Direction Hleb Kuftseryn Duration 1' Country Estonia Year 2022

My Favorite

Hilda is a dog who has a firm belief that she is the master of her human. The story describes everyday activities as interpreted by Hilda. As the best master in the world, Hilda determines the start of each day, their exercise routine, menu, daily walks and social life. Her pet treats Hilda like a goddess who must be venerated.  Direction Elise Kruusel Duration 3' Language English Country Estonia Year 2024

Hit the Nail on the Head

At the end of a long day, the domestic routine is interrupted by irritating inconveniences – a reflection on the problems that life brings with it. Direction Cristo Madissoo, Lyza Jarvis, Maria Rakitina, Kaimar Lomp Duration 6' Country Estonia Year 2021

The Juggler's Guide

A talented juggler’s life takes a sudden twist when his treasured juggling balls are stolen. Determined to retrieve his cherished possessions, he embarks on an adventure, aided by acrobatic rabbits, dancing frogs and some shocking truths about his own existence. Direction Rebeka Kruus Duration 3' Country Estonia Year 2023

Cufufu

Bernie Krause’s “niche theory” is that each creature’s voice evolved to occupy its own unique little acoustic slot within the all-encompassing soundscape, a piece of the whole puzzle, distinct within the sea of sonic information. A fisher wonders what sounds fit best in the acoustic niches created by the surroundings. Direction Bruno Quast Duration 6' Country Estonia Year 2021

Swifts

Every spring, the swifts return to the sleepy districts at the edge of the city. But this year, the humans are gone. Only birds and silent spirits inhabit the empty buildings and overgrown courtyards. Through the eyes of the returning swifts, the film reflects on absence, memory and the quiet traces left behind. Direction Ada Napiórkowski Duration 5' Country Estonia Year 2024