
Olga Pärn
Directing
Biography
Olga Pärn (née Marchenko; born January 1, 1976) is a Belarusian-Estonian animator, film director and illustrator. She was born in Minsk and graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts in graphic arts. Afterwards, she graduated from La Poudrière animation school in Valence, studying film direction. She works at Estonian Academy of Arts, being a visiting professor there. Her illustrations are awarded several times. In 2015, she won the special price of the Estonian Children's Literature Centre because of her illustrations for the children's book "Telephone Tales". Her husband is an Estonian animator Priit Pärn.
Known For

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.
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
A Japanese-produced animated film using Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons as its soundtrack. The four seasons all have separate animation directors. Its production was partly crowdfunded. The film premiered in Kitakyushu in 2017 along with a live performance of the Four Seasons and this performance was recorded and distributed to supporters of the project.
四季

He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.
Divers in the Rain

An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.
Zorg II: Fall Of Thera

Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.
Manivald

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
Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies. With Pilots on the Way Home, Priit and Olga Pärn (Divers in the Rain) have created a new, satirical meditation on male-female relations. The film tackles masculinity and the male psyche with the same pointed sense of the absurd that has marked Priit Pärn's previous films. Pilots on the Way Home is also a journey through time and space, and to the universal sources of artistic eroticism. Olga Pärn is a master of the art of animating sand, giving Priit Pärn's unique line drawings a warm and subtle texture reminiscent of etching. Her work is perfectly matched to the impassioned beats of this tale.
Pilots on the Way Home

Ex opera singer works as a Crocodile in a shopping center. Until a femme fatale arrives.
Crocodile

A richly animated documentary about the extremely popular caricaturist Gori, whose fate in Estonia at the beginning of the last century shows the balance between power and freedom like a mirror. In the Fellini-like world of Gori (1894-1944), farce and drama, mockery and big politics mix. There is no subject that Gori's pen will not mock until the winds turn and mouths are closed.
Gori the Caricaturist

Despite a comprehensive security camera system and efficient airport security checks, a group of activists succeed in their diabolical plan.
Luna Rossa

The people are awaiting someone special. Someone special is born: a grown man in a suit.
A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
The nameless man, left alone in a sterile office environment, rethinks his existence. He hears the Alentejo song, a traditional Portuguese chant that shows him a different world from the meaningless everyday existence of work and society that he knows.
Cante

Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
The man spent most of his life in prison. His body is covered with tattoos that describe his criminal past and symbolize his high authority. However, the moment comes when he is released, will it be easy for a person to leave his comfort zone?
Don't Wake Up

A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.
Song of Songs

Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Breakfast on the Grass

Documentary about the work of the Estonian cartoonist and animation director Priit Pärn
Priit Pärn in Tallinn
A cold-hearted boy walks through a freezing city, trying to connect with its inhabitants, but receives only cold rejection. After searching for ways to protect himself from the icy wind, he must decide whether to forget his fears and risk being vulnerable.
Layers

Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit Pärn.