Nukufilm Animation Selection

Presented by Presented by Kerdi Kuusik-Oengo

Saturday, 22.03.2025, 20:00 @ Blickle Kino im Belvedere 21

Taaskohtumine: Ülo Pikkov

Taaskohtumine – ’til we meet again

Ülo Pikkov | 2021 | 14m | EE

This is a story about an elderly woman whose destiny has taken her far away from her home island. She is finally able to return, only to find out that strangers have been living in her house.

It’s a story about making peace with one’s past.

Tik-Tak: Ülo Pikkov

Tik-Tak

Ülo Pikkov | 2015 | 9m 13s | EE

Animated film “Tick-Tack” is visualizing time and it’s fatal nature. In order to underline the time as a metaphysical phenomena there are a lot of clocks and watches and its part to characterize it. We all are given “our time”, this “our time consists in reality in thousands of different “times” since even every cell in our body has its own time given to live and to die. 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.

Liivamees – Sandguy: Pärtel Tall

Liivamees – Sandguy

Pärtel Tall | 2013 | 15m | EE

Sand on the beach is as 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!

Koerkorter - Dog Apartment: Priit Tender

Koerkorter – Dog Apartment

Priit Tender | 2022 | 14m | EE

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.
Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.

Imeline mees - A Most Exquisite Man: Jonas Taul

Imeline mees – A Most Exquisite Man

Jonas Taul | 2021 | 15m | EE

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.

Tühi ruum – Empty Space: Ülo Pikkov

Tühi ruum – Empty Space

Ülo Pikkov | 2016 | 10m 39s | EE

Documentary-based animation about a dream that eventually comes true in a film.
A 10-uear old girl longed for a puppy as a birthday present. Her dissappointment was very big
when instead puppy she got father she had no idea he was still alive. This documentary based film
tells a story about a very long-standing dream that kept him alive through many years and actually
will come true only now, through this film.

Talv vihmametsas - Winter in the Rainforest: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Talv vihmametsas – Winter in the Rainforest

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg | 2019 | 8m 36s | EE

In a hidden corner of the world there is a place where all impossible dreams come true. In a rainforest amidst lush nature fragile porcelain animals can be found. Strange white stony creatures are born in wild river streams, birds with feet like human fingers hunt for flying fish, vicious spiders catch miniature dancers into their traps…This is a surreal world inhabited by creatures never seen before. Time here passes in a strange way moving in an unexpected paste. As the film is shot in nature the changes of light create a strange shift between the passing of time and the movement of the characters. Tropical nature, ceramic creatures, Estonian music and sounds of northern nature form a surreal world with bizarre sensation of seeing something unknown but familiar at the same time.