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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.
- "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.
- 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.
- Two children play on an island, in an open coastal landscape. Their imagination is only limited by the horizon, which is endless. They have a game they love to play: to search under stones, on the beach, in the mud, and in the fields to look for dead animals. Once they collect enough animals, they bring them to a self-made graveyard. Here, the children bury them, decorate graves, sing songs and recite poems. The cadavers are like treasures to the children. They come alive again - they rise in the "Eternal Hunting Grounds". Their thoughts about the animal paradise are magical and real. The hunter also lives on the island; he kills the animals the children find. The children collect them and turn the hunters cruel actions into something good. One day the hunter shoots a heron. This bird is bigger and more beautiful than any other animal they have found. All of a sudden their game change.
- 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.
- 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!
- Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Sand on the beach is a natural as air, sun, life, love. The trails draw on the sand their endless stories asking, can we value these things before they are gone forever? When the sand and Sandguy have left and the Stoneguy opens his eyes, does he stay or leave too? Every grain in the sand counts!
- 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.
- There is no triangle without corners. There is no direction without a triangle. There is no movement without a direction.
- 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 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 boy goes shopping with his mom. He wants some soda and lemonade, but Mom refuses to buy it. Unhappy, he still takes a bottle off the shelf and... gets sucked into the bottle! He falls into a dark-green bubble-soda ocean. He is unable to get back to the real world where his mother is looking for him. He finds a friend who helps him to return.
- Snowman's dream has been fulfilled: he is non-meltable and can finally see the summer! But his joy will be cut short since there are more chasers for his nose than the always hungry Rabbit and beach lacks the safe and covering snow.
- The strongest power is oldest power.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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?
- What happens when the Maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?
- 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.
- This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...
- Multiplying the existing point of view the actual oneness seems changes to unevenness.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Happy Birthday" is an outlook vision about the duel between Bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favor, or will the status quo remain firm?
- 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 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.