Olga Pärn

Directing

Olga Pärn

Born 1976-01-01 · Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]

Olga Pärn (née Marchenko; born January 1, 1976) is a Belarusian-Estonian animator, film director and illustrator. She was born in Minsk and graduated from Belarusian State Academy of Arts in graphic arts. Afterwards, she graduated from La Poudrière animation school in Valence, studying film direction. She works at Estonian Academy of Arts, being a visiting professor there. Her illustrations are awarded several times. In 2015, she won the special price of the Estonian Children's Literature Centre because of her illustrations for the children's book "Telephone Tales". Her husband is an Estonian animator Priit Pärn.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Song of Songs poster
NR

A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.

Song of Songs

2010

Luna Rossa poster
4.5

Despite a comprehensive security camera system and efficient airport security checks, a group of activists succeed in their diabolical plan.

Luna Rossa

2024

Life Without Gabriella Ferri poster
5.4

A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall. To get away from the situation, he escapes into a virtual world. But when the man finds himself inopportunely stuck out on the balcony of the apartment, a burglar gets into the building. At the same time, in a neighbouring apartment, spies are getting ready to listen in on a group of scientists.

Life Without Gabriella Ferri

2008

Divers in the Rain poster
8.0

He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.

Divers in the Rain

2009

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story poster
NR

Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story

2017

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story poster
NR

Incensed at his laziness, a shrewd, cunning wife steals the eyes of her husband while he rests instead of hunting.

The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story

2017

I Feel in the Back of My Head... poster
5.0

Poetic, experimental animated short directed by one of the greatest Estonian cartoonists Priit Pärn.

I Feel in the Back of My Head...

2007

No artwork available
NR

A cold-hearted boy walks through a freezing city, trying to connect with its inhabitants, but receives only cold rejection. After searching for ways to protect himself from the icy wind, he must decide whether to forget his fears and risk being vulnerable.

Layers

2020

No artwork available
3.0

Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies. With Pilots on the Way Home, Priit and Olga Pärn (Divers in the Rain) have created a new, satirical meditation on male-female relations. The film tackles masculinity and the male psyche with the same pointed sense of the absurd that has marked Priit Pärn's previous films. Pilots on the Way Home is also a journey through time and space, and to the universal sources of artistic eroticism. Olga Pärn is a master of the art of animating sand, giving Priit Pärn's unique line drawings a warm and subtle texture reminiscent of etching. Her work is perfectly matched to the impassioned beats of this tale.

Pilots on the Way Home

2014

Zorg II: Fall Of Thera poster
NR

An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.

Zorg II: Fall Of Thera

2020