Focus on Nukufilm: Award Winners

75 minutes

Nukufilm for gold! Enjoy a selection of their award-winning shorts.

Focus on Nukufilm: Award Winners

Taking part is more important than winning. Okay, but it's so nice to win, isn't it? These short films by Nukufilm were showered with praise and won one or multiple awards. 

Nukufilm is the oldest still-running stop-motion company in the world! It was established in 1957 and is located in Tallinn, Estonia.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

A Most Exquisite man

A Most Exquisite man

  • Jonas Taul
  • Estonia, 2021
  • 14 min.

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.

Body Memory

Body Memory

  • Ülo Pikkov
  • Estonia, 2011
  • 9 min.

Inspired by the Soviet deportations from Estonia in the 1940s, this stop-motion animation takes as its central concept the idea that our body remembers. Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessor, sustaining the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?

On the Other Side of the Woods

On the Other Side of the Woods

  • Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
  • Estonia, 2014
  • 10 min.

In this fairytale full of magic and childhood's nostalgia, a clay doll awakens her surroundings in a surreal natural daylight.

The Master

The Master

  • Riho Unt
  • Estonia, 2015
  • 18 min.

A dog and a monkey are waiting for their master to return. When he doesn't come home the two pets have to find a way to live together. Two puppets star in this psychological drama about the workings of power.

The Table

The Table

  • Girlin Bassovskaja
  • Estonia, 2004
  • 20 min.

Vivat, crescat, floreat vagina!


Roza has given birth to many children, all with different men. The protagonist is Rita, her youngest daughter, whose fate – like her mother’s – is to endure the effort and pain of giving birth. How and whether she can cope with this, or the world?