Animated films

The Department of Animation has produced almost 150 animated films. Look our films, fresh trailers and workshops’ results in our Vimeo site.

Pura Vida | 2018 | 9’35”| 2D digital drawn animation | author Nata Metlukh | supervisors Priit and Olga Pärn

Pura Vida (2018) is a film about four flawed friends who travel to tropics where things go wrong. The author Nata Metlukh is Ukraine-US animator and director, who works in San Francisco. She was graduated from EKA Master of Animation in 2018. Pura Vida has been screened in almost twenty festival competitions, has won two awards and has been nominated for European Animation Awards in The Best Student Film category.

Sounds Good | 2018 | 9’50”| 2D digital drawn animation | author Sander Joon | supervisors Priit and Olga Pärn

Sounds Good (2018) is an experimental short animation inspired by the sounds. Boom operator tries to record the sounds of mushrooms. The author Sander Joon is already known for his previews films – Velodrool (2015) and Moulinet (2017). Sounds Good has been selected in almost forty festival programmes and has won eight awards.

Fly Mill | 2012 | 7’17”| puppet animation | author Anu-Laura Tuttelberg | supervisors Priit Pärn and Riho Unt

The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds. Fly Mill (2012) has won more than twenty festival awards. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg worked on this film for two years and this was her graduation film in EKA.

Once in the Fields of Boredom | 2017 | 5’20”| mixed technique | author Teele Strauss | supervisor Priit Pärn

A short animation Once in the Fields of Boredom (2017) is a story about a couple whose life together has come to an end – they struggle with boredom. Teele Strauss was graduated from EKA Master of Animation in 2017 and now she works with her new animated short. Once in the Fields of Boredom has been screen in more than twenty festival programmes and has won two awards.

Not About Us | 2011 | 3’37”| drawn animation | author Michael Frei | supervisors Priit and Olga Pärn

Not About Us (2011) by Michael Frei has produced during his Erasmus exchange year in EKA. Not About Us has won three festival awards. Frei is a well-known Swiss filmmaker.

Corner | 2016 | 2’05”| 2D digital drawn animation | author Lucija Mrzljak | supervisor Priit Pärn

Corner (2016) is a visual trick comedy. Nothing is what it appears to be. Lucija Mrzljak came to study in EKA from Croatia and she has stayed in Estonia since that. She has become a well-know animator and director. 

International Father’s Day | 2012 | 5’00”| 2D digital drawn animation| author Edmunds Jansons | supervisors Priit and Olga Pärn

For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird – an ordinary working day. And concerns are the same old – to get food for his family. International Father’s Day (2012) has been screened in more than sixty competition programmes and has won five festival awards. Edmunds Jansons was graduated from EKA Master of Animation in 2012. He is Latvian filmmaker and professor in animation in Art Academy of Latvia.

Small House | 2008 | 6’15”| drawn animation| author Kristjan Holm | supervisor Priit Pärn

Small House (2008) is a story about a man’s life in a little house and a catastrophe on its the way. Kristjan Holm is a well-know Estonian animator and filmmaker, who has many festival shorts in his filmography.