FEEL IT.STREAM
Heiki Ernits

Heiki Ernits

Directing

Biography

Heiki Ernits (born March 24, 1953) is an Estonian animator, illustrator, and film director. He graduated from the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute as a teacher of arts and crafts. He has created 19 animated films and illustrated over 30 children's books. He has received 6 Nukits Awards.

Known For

Lotte's Stories
N/A

Lotte together with her friends Bruno and Albert, ventures and solves exciting detective puzzles.

Lotte's Stories

2017
Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
6.2

Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones that a pair of hooded figures are attempting to retrieve.

Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

2011
Lotte and the Lost Dragons
6.6

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.

Lotte and the Lost Dragons

2019
Black Ceiling
N/A

Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon. Leading actors of the Estonian theater and cinema, as well as the authors of the poems themselves, took part in the dubbing.

Black Ceiling

2007
Ladybirds' Christmas
6.2

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.

Ladybirds' Christmas

2001
Poop, Spring and Others
N/A

Based on Andrus Kivirähk's books "Poo and spring", "Carnival and Potato Salad" and "Ghost and Facebook", the film tells about longing, friendship, love, family and fears, which often have big eyes. The adventures of the strange characters are spiced with the characteristic warm and bold humor of Kivirähk, wittily weaving together the boundless fantasy of children and the living conditions of the modern world.

Poop, Spring and Others

2023
Lotte from Gadgetville
8.7

Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives.

Lotte from Gadgetville

2006
Hell
5.2

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

Hell

1983
Lotte Goes South
8.8

Little bird Pippo fell behind the flock of birds. Lotte decides to go after a flock to take Pippo to relatives. Together with her dad Oscar, inventor, who has just invented a flying machine, and old traveler Klaus.

Lotte Goes South

2000
Pillar
10.0

The film is for adults and consists of several sharply satirical episodes: “Help”, “Balance” and “Pillar”.

Pillar

1989
Tom and Fluffy
6.4

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".

Tom and Fluffy

1997
Legends of Tallinn
8.0

Tallinn is known for its medieval old town. However, not only the old houses and streets have been preserved, we have also come down to ancient legends related to these places. The film is about the Oleviste Church and the mysterious craftsman who built one of the world's tallest towers for this church at one time.

Legends of Tallinn

1995
Concert for a Carrot Pie
8.8

The Cat Orchestra performs "Concert for Carrot Pie". Grandma decides to bake a carrot pie and sends grandfather and her granddaughter to bring carrots from the field.

Concert for a Carrot Pie

2002
Tyll the Giant
6.7

Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home.

Tyll the Giant

1980
Departure
6.0

Young man is going somewhere by train with his love interest. While searching for water to drink tea, he encounters different periods of Estonian and Soviet history in each railroad car, though he loses everything he has at the moment.

Departure

1991
Jaagup and the Death
10.0

Death came to the main character's house with a scythe. And it hinted that the time of his life had already expired. But Jaagup wasn't going to die. He ordered his wife to pour wine for the guest. Then he played cheerful music on the harp, to which the guest danced with the host's wife. And death also made time for Yaagupu's life.…

Jaagup and the Death

1994
1+1+1
N/A

Heik Ernitsa's directorial debut "Encounter" is a humorous story about dreams and reality. "Street" by Valter Uusberg paints a nervous and gloomy picture of the artificial environment of the city. Mati Küti's satirical "Monument" dissects egocentrism in a grotesque tone.

1+1+1

1982
Kalle and Bogey
N/A

One day, the boy who loved mischief more than anything else in the world came to the wizard in the castle. Just before that, he took the teddy bear from the girl, threw it at her, and also slipped a beetle into her candy wrapper. How will the boy behave now? Will they let him go home? After all, here everything becomes known about his past pranks.

Kalle and Bogey

1984
Ramses' Pranks 4
N/A

About the life of a hunting dog. The protagonists go on a fishing trip.

Ramses' Pranks 4

1987
To Each His Own
10.0

Estonia in a turbulent era of change. Citizen A, a modest, indecisive person, with great difficulty and inner fear fits into the changed realities of the world around him. And he constantly finds himself in various absurd situations.

To Each His Own

1990