Dog-Apartment

Based on the poem by Andres Ehin

Logline

Absurdist drama about a decayed male ballet dancer and his barking apartment.

Synopsis

Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he’s having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.

Director

Priit Tender

Technique

Classical puppet

Year of production

2022

Duration

14´

Target audience

Adults

Awards

2024/18th Lublin Film Festival Poland 22.-30.11. – HONORABLE MENTION

2024/3th The Pigeon International Film Festival (PIFF) Isafjordeer Icland 10.-13.11. AWARD WINNER

2024/7th SMOFInternational Animation Festival Buenos Aires Argentina 24.-30.06. AWARD WINNER

2024/7th Reale Film Festival-BiMonthly Awards Milano, Italy AWARD WINNER

2024/25th NCCC Film and Animation Festival Sauborn New York USA 04.05. HONORABLE MENTION

2024/3th AoDR-Academy of Death Races Film Festival London UK 05.-21.01. BEST ANIMATED FILM AWARD

2023/15th ReAnimania International Animation Films Art Comics festival of YerevanArmenia 22.-28.10. SPECIAL JURY AWARD

2023/XVII ZUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival Bialystok Poland 06.-10.12. SPECIAL MENTION

2023/22th Reggio International Short Film Festival Italy06.-12.11. INTERNATIONAL JURY AWARD

2023/41th Short Film Competition of the festival Tous Courts France 28.11.-02.12. JURY PRIZE

2023/ 7th The Black Sea Film Festival Constanta Romania 05.-08.09. The BEST ANIMATION category

2023/Galician Freaky Film Festival (GFFF) Pontevedra 27.09. GRAND AWARD for the most Freaky short film

2023/Festival du film d`Animation Pour La Jeunesse Bourg en Bresse France 21.-25.10. GRAND PRIX

2023/37th Braunschweig International Festival Germany 06.-12.11. Audience award“THE EDDA“ for the BEST SHORT FILM

2023/ 27th AVANCA Film Festival Portugal ANIMATION PRIZE

2023/20th In the Palace International Short Film Festival Sofia Bulgaria 10.06.-17.06. BEST ANIMATION

2023/18th NAFF NeumAnimated Film Festival Bosnia & Hrezegovina 26.-30.08. GRAND PRIX, the AWARD for the BEST CLAY-DOLL ANIMATION

2023/15th Cyber Sousa Xiamen International Animation Festival China SILVER PRIZE

2023/16th ANIMATOR International Animated Film Festival Poznan Poland 21.-30.06. 3rd award BRONZE PEGASUS, Volunteers AWARD for the BEST SHORT FILM

2023/IMAXINARIA Film Festival Galicia Spain 10.-14.05. GRAND PRIX

2023/International Festival of Animated Films ANIFILM Liberec CzechRepublic 02.-07.05. SPECIAL MENTION

2023/Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS ) Germany 25.-30.04. GRAND PRIX

2023/ EFTA PARIM ANIMAFILM

2023/15th Hallucinations Collectives Film Festival Lyon France 04.-10.04. THE GRAND PRIX, STUDENTS JURY PRIZE

2023/T–SHORT Animated Film Festival Karlsruhe Germany 23.02.-12.03. THE BEST FILM of FESTIVAL

2023/53thTampere Film Festival Finland 08.-12.03. BEST ANIMATION AWARD

2023/MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival Portugal 15.-26.03. GRAND PRIX

2022/Annual Award of AV Division of Estonian Cultural Endowment BEST ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR 2022

2022/14th TOFUZI International Animated Film Festival BatumiGeorgia 24.-29.10. GRAND PRIX

2022/29th IFF Etiuda& Anima Film Festival Krakow Poland 22.-27.11. THE GRAND PRIX _ THE GOLDEN JABBERWOCKY

2022/15th Animanima International Animation Festival Casak Serbia 03.-05.11. SPECIAL DISTINCTION of the JURY

2022/12th Stop Trik International Stop Motion Competition Lodz, Poland, 28.09.-03.10.,Maribor, Slovenia 06.-08.11 SPECIAL MENTION

2022/19th LIAF London International Animation Festival UK 25.11.-04.12. BEST of the FESTIVAL AWARD

2022/30th ALTER_NATIVE International Short Film Festival Targu-Mures Romania26.09.-02.10. – THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE’S AWARD

2022/15th ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival Greece 20.-25.09. – The Prize for BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMGRAND PRIZE & DNA LAB

2022/24th Bucheon International Animation Festival Korea 21.-25.10. – ANI B`s CHOISE AWARD

Festivals

Link

Estonian Film Database