Synopsis

While smoking on the balcony, Citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a man and a woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the stork meet...

Lucija Mrzljak

Lucija Mrzljak is a Croatian director and illustrator. She studied animated film in Zagreb, Krakow, Prague, and Tallinn. She has directed a series of award-winning films in collaboration with studios Eesti Joonisfilm and Adriatic Animation, and with Estonian director Morten Tšinakov: Demonstration of Brilliance in 4 Acts (2018), Stork (2020), and (2022), which premiered at the Berlinale and was shortlisted for the Oscars Academy Awards. In 2019, she directed the music video The Closing Door in collaboration with Irish musician Glen Hansard. She has lived between Zagreb and Tallinn for several years. She teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Morten Tšinakov

Morten studied animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn where he made two films. Since graduating, he has been working at the Estonian animation studio Joonisfilm where, in collaboration with Lucija Mrzljak, he has co-created A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts, The Stork and Eeva.