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.

Our body remembers more than we can expect and imagine. It remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors, sustaining the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in the memory of the body?

On the Other Side of the Woods

On the Other Side of the Woods

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

Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a syrreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passing of time in the film.

The Master

The Master

  • Riho Unt
  • Estonia, 2015
  • 18 min.

A dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home who is just one day not coming any more... From this particular day there starts their mutual life. Popi, beeing actually smarter and stronger capitulates in front of monkey's whims symbolising with it his obedience and subservientness. At the other hand, Huhuu symbolises licentiousness and silliness.

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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?