
Priit Tender
Directing
Biography
Priit Tender (born (born February 7, 1971 in Tallinn) is an Estonian animator and animated film director. His animation films have won numerous prizes from international animation film festivals. Since 2019, he has been the head of the animation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Known For

It's about a man, a snake, a drunk penguin and the disappearance of birds. It's about an apple tree and apples, roots and rootlessness. It's about paradise and being expelled from it.
Bird Flu

A man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach…
The Maggot Feeder

A dreamy love triangle between a mermaid, a sailor with a wooden leg and a flute-playing centaur, who live among the sand dunes of a desert landscape. Ülo’s debut hand-drawn film is full of charm and wit, in equal measures, and never fails to delight.
Bermuda

A fairytale about the mice and the raven, which is stronger and which is cleverer.
The Crow and Mice

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

Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...
Frank & Wendy

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

This film is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most frequently.
House of Unconsciousness

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?
1895

Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Dog Apartment

Our hero Udo embarks on something that can imagine a hike. Along the way, he meets some mildly absurd characters.
Gravity

Carrot unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes hunted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays him again and again. The coming of beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
Carrot!

A burnt out violinist performs a morbid show every night with his dancer wife.
Viola

The film is based on a legend of the Mapuche Indians. It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, but gets cruelly cast down. In the film the personification of animals provides this slightly absurd legend with social context.
Fox Woman

A student animated film by Mikk Rand
Kaerajaan

An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.
Mont Blanc

Three orchestrated journeys to the hitherto unknown dimensions of a kitchen in the morning.
Dimensions of the Kitchen

Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld, under one condition - Orpheus must reach the land of the living before looking to see if his love is following him.
Orpheus
Anti has worked as a TV-set repairman all his life. One day, he realizes that everything around him needs to be repaired.
A Message for the Neighbors
Miriam and her little brother play hide and seek with the chicken. There is some confusion when the chicken is locked in the cupboard and tomato sauce is spilled on the ground.