Best Estonian animation movies
A curated collection of popular animation movies from Estonia.
Lili (2008)
Lili (2008)
A herd of war-torn and hungry rats tries to get an answer to the question of who is Lili Marleen from a mortally wounded young soldier stuck in a projectile funnel. Is it a reminder of first love or first relationship with a prostitute earning her daily bread? Lili Marleen is not just a distant heroine from a song. Every soldier boy has her own Lili, be it his first love from school or just an imagination. But always, no matter what happens, she is waiting for her soldier underneath the lantern by the barrack gate...
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.
Angel's Trumpet (2019)
Angel's Trumpet (2019)
Hummingbird is the only one able to drink the nectar of Angel’s Trumpet. What could be the next step in its evolution?
The Piece of Tail in the Mouth of the Snake that Bites Its Own Tail (2020)
The Piece of Tail in the Mouth of the Snake that Bites Its Own Tail (2020)
A trip across the cosmos.
Robot Will Protect You (2018)
Robot Will Protect You (2018)
One rainy night in futuristic Neo Berlin, nine year old Tina and her guardian robot, SAM-53, set off on a quest that asks: if cyberspace has made romantic love obsolete, do we still need love in the real world?
Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008)
A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall. To get away from the situation, he escapes into a virtual world. But when the man finds himself inopportunely stuck out on the balcony of the apartment, a burglar gets into the building. At the same time, in a neighbouring apartment, spies are getting ready to listen in on a group of scientists.
GUF: A Cathedral of Unborn Souls (2001)
GUF: A Cathedral of Unborn Souls (2001)
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 or wrong anymore. He makes mistake and dies, but the Goodness will give him a new trial - a new possibility to make mistake.
Fok Nabo Distorio (2014)
Fok Nabo Distorio (2014)
Experimental abstract animation based on "Liivaterade Raamat" composed by Liis Viira. This short film is improvised by animating in stop-motion different objects through optical lenses.
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story (2013)
Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange: A Rapid Love Story (2013)
Main hero is a singing boat refugee – orange boy Maroc. He dreams about freedom. Lemon girl Lisa collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Lisa’s father is a businessman, owner of a ketchup factory and tomato plantation. He loves money. And so the opera begins: Poor Maroc escapes from his homeland and defying stormy waters take a boat across the sea to the “promised land”. Upon arrival he is forced into being a slave worker in a tomato plantation instead of freedom, democracy, wealth and parties he had hoped for. Despite the initial let down our orange boy is destined to gain happiness – selfish Lisa falls in love with him and sets him free. We see an orange revolution – houses are blown up and tomatoes are made from ketchup, all in the name of democracy! Movie that is full of rebellion and love has happy ending – we will see sour-sweet culmination of lemon girl’s and orange boy’s love.
The Old Man and Gasworm (2022)
A Greyhound of a Girl (2023)
A Greyhound of a Girl (2023)
Mary is a 12-year-old girl with a passion for cooking, absorbing information from her grandmother, who is a wonderful cook. However, Mary and her family must come to terms with her grandmother's illness.
Ghost Hour (2013)
Ghost Hour (2013)
As every evening, the Ghost goes to work – to haunt and frighten. Even in his worst nightmares the Ghost hadn’t imagined he’ll meet such a ‘terrifying’ girl who is not afraid of him. But it happened...
The Enchanted Island (1985)
The Enchanted Island (1985)
A fairytale about the awkward Kohmits who frees his people from an evil spell. Based on the motifs from a Chukchee fairytale.
Lotte and the Moonstone Secret (2011)
Lotte and the Lost Dragons (2019)
Lotte and the Lost Dragons (2019)
Lotte gets a little sister named Roosi. Two scientists Karl and Viktor come to Gadgetville, they are taking part in a big folk song collecting competition. Whoever succeeds in recording the folk song of the world’s oldest animal species, wins the competition’s grand prize. Lotte and Roosi decide to help the scientists. Exciting and unexpected adventures await the sisters.
Ladybirds' Christmas (2001)
Ladybirds' Christmas (2001)
Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia set about seeking the way back to the forest.
Tom and Fluffy (1997)
Tom and Fluffy (1997)
A small village in a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is a newly invented machine for sugar. Returns from a trip around the world to visit an old dog Klaus. These four, along with Julius the cat and the pond obstinate spoiled dragon Otto, Rat Leo and tiny white mouse Julia; hare James, who is not at all convinced that she is still a rabbit, small mysterious creatures and light blue butterflies, insect Give her three mischievous insects child - all of them together are the characters of children's humorous animated film series "Tom and Fluffy".
Cat in the Bag (2013)
Cat in the Bag (2013)
It is nice and fun to have a cat or some other pet at home to play with. The trusting cat also thought to himself: it's so great to have a home... Until the moment it found itself trapped in a bag, somewhere out on the street, all alone, left to it's faith. Nevertheless - all is well that ends well!
Piano (2015)
Piano (2015)
Marta hauls a piano home from a used music shop. She almost succeeds. Albert tries for the thirtieth year already to tell Paula that he loves her. He almost succeeds. Paula wants to respond to Albert in the same vein. She almost succeeds. Police commissioner Kits has dreamed of parachuting all his life. He almost succeeds. Mirjam wants be become a circus artist. She almost succeeds. A honeybee tries to get out past a closed window. It almost succeeds. A film without main characters where the lives of characters that have lost their head intertwine in a dramatic and less dramatic way in an ordinary concrete panel apartment building.
Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)
Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)
Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.
Sierra (2022)
Sierra (2022)
A father and his son are losing the race. To win, the boy turns himself into a car tyre. Sierra looks at toxic masculinity through dark irony, while pulling us into the surreal car racing world. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, this animated black comedy includes fragments of a stop motion film animated by the director's father during Soviet Estonia.
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion (2023)
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion (2023)
A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work in the studio which was founded in the Soviet era and has survived heavy censorship and global competition.
Kings of the Time (2008)
Kings of the Time (2008)
A documentary with 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 exact time of the real events in the documentary 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 space, rivers were reversed and hydraulic power plants built.
Muteum (2017)
Muteum (2017)
A visit to the art museum produces lessons aplenty for mind, body and especially all the little souls.
Karl and Marilyn (2003)
Karl and Marilyn (2003)
Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called ordinary people, after which he crosses paths with fame-seeking Marilyn. Ordinary Karl is the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the masses. But not for long...
Face Recognition (2021)
Face Recognition (2021)
Face Recognition failure – deadbeat Igor-503 evades the cop detectors during a night of wild drinking.
The Stork (2021)
The Stork (2021)
While smoking on the balcony, Citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a man and a woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the stork meet...
Dog Apartment (2022)
Dog Apartment (2022)
Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Corner (2017)
Corner (2017)
Life is difficult in the corner, in the angle where all edges meet. Everything is geometrically relative when laws of perspective and gravity start playing tricks on you.