Winter in the Rainforest
In a rainforest amidst lush nature, fragile porcelain animals live. Strange white stony creatures are born in wild river streams, birds with feet like human fingers hunt for flying fish, vicious spiders catch miniature dancers into their traps… This is a surreal world inhabited by creatures never seen before. Time here passes in a strange way, moving in an unexpected manner. As the film is shot in nature, the changes of light create a strange shift between the passing of time and the movement of the characters. Tropical nature, ceramic creatures, and Nordic music form a surreal world creates a bizarre sensation of seeing something unknown but familiar at the same time.
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Team
Director’s Biography
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013 with an MA degree in Animation. She specialises in stop-motion animation. Her graduation film Fly Mill screened at numerous festivals around the world and won 20 prizes. Her first film after graduation On The Other Side Of The Woods premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival, has screened at more than 85 festivals and won over 12 awards. Winter in the Rainforest – the first film from the trilogy of stop-motion films with porcelain characters – premiered in 2019 at Annecy, has screened at more than 90 festivals, and won 13 awards.
Anu-Laura has also created set designs for numerous stop-motion films by other directors. In 2022 she won the Estonian Film and TV Award for Best Production Design for Til We Meet Again, directed by Ülo Pikkov. Anu-Laura teaches animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
On Weary Wings Go By is the second film in Anu-Laura’s nature trilogy shot outdoors in various locations in the world with porcelain puppets as characters.
Filmography
Fly Mill / Kärbeste veski (2012, short animation)
On The Other Side Of The Woods / Teisel pool metsa (2014, short animation)
Winter in the Rainforest / Talv Vihmametsas / Žiema atogrąžų miške (2019, short animation)
On Weary Wings Go By / Kai išskrenda paukščiai (2024, short animation)
