Synopsis

A film about modern Europe and its oppositions – East and West, myth and real-ity, familiar and foreign. It deals with the potential possibility and simultaneous inability to overcome borders. All of this against the background of the omnipres-ent culture of America.

Priit Pärn

Priit Pärn was born on August 26, 1946 in Tallinn. He graduated from the Department of Biology at the University of Tartu in 1970, and worked as animated film director in Tallinnfilm Studio since 1976 and at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio since 1994. He has been active as a caricaturist and illustrator since the end of the 1960's and has received a lot of prestigious international awards for his caricatures. From the early 1980s he has been working more and more as freelance graphic artist. Pärn has had over 50 solo graphic exhibitions all over the world. He has made 18 animated films as a director, scriptwriter and art director. He has received more than 80 awards from world`s top festivals, including 22 Grands Prix.