Estonian cinema punches well above its weight for such a small nation, with a strong tradition in animation that stretches back to the Soviet era studio Joonisfilm. The short film Manivald is a fine example of that wit and oddness. See what Macca made of Estonia's output below.
Country Estonia
Incipit Vita Nova is a gloriously strange little thing, and I mean that as a high compliment. Hardi Volmer's Estonian short barely feels like an animation at first, playing more like a surreal live-action oddity, before it tips its hero into a fantastical world and the stop-
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Stolen Seas (2013)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Manivald (2017)
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