
Directing
Rao Heidmets
Born 1956-09-15 · Pärnu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Rao Heidmets (born September 15, 1956 in Pärnu) is an Estonian animated film director, producer and scenarist. In 1982 he started to work at Tallinnfilm. In 1991 he established his own production company Rao Heidmetsa Filmistuudio. Since 2002 he is a film director in Nukufilm. In 2005 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class
Acting credits
7.5Balancing on the borders of the real and the unreal the film strives to express the monotony of this world, its illusory character, and emphasize the lack of spirituality in everyday routine.
Noblesse Oblige
1989
6.3When two half-sisters, thirteen-year-old white-haired Sigrid and seven-year-old black-blooded Saara meet for the first time, it turns out that their common grandmother has been taken to a nursing home. The girls come up with the idea to steal him from there and hide him in the attic where they can be with her undisturbed. Everything goes well beyond expectations until drunkards, thugs and extortionists intervene and the girls have to act decisively to escape from them.
Dear Mister Moon
1998
Behind the camera
NRShort film from Rao Heidmets about voyeurism, violence and media. Mixing live action with stop motion animation.
Inherent Obligations
2008
NRShort film from Rao Heidmets about voyeurism, violence and media. Mixing live action with stop motion animation.
Inherent Obligations
2008
9.0A greedy fox steals the presents from Santa’s sleigh.
The House Spirit
1991
7.5Balancing on the borders of the real and the unreal the film strives to express the monotony of this world, its illusory character, and emphasize the lack of spirituality in everyday routine.
Noblesse Oblige
1989
7.5Balancing on the borders of the real and the unreal the film strives to express the monotony of this world, its illusory character, and emphasize the lack of spirituality in everyday routine.
Noblesse Oblige
1989
7.0A fun and educational story about the nature of goodness. It's not just a natural and self-evident part of our lives, but a force that helps overcome many obstacles that come our way in life.
The Pigeon Lady
1983
8.0Film about conflict between young and old generations. In this animated film with live actors the protagonist is a girl, who is brought up by her grandfather. He lives in a strictly regulated world where animate as well as inanimate creatures have fixed places, which are marked by chalk on the living-room floor. Anything surpassing those borders is mercilessly scarped out of the film strip. The young girl, in whom the primal forces of nature are awakening, learns from her grandfather’s fading sexuality. She starts to scrape the filmstrip as well, to change the world according to her own will. What will she draw instead of her past childhood?
Living Room
1993
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Life Stories
2007
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Life Stories
2007
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Life Stories
2007
NRThere are too many people and animals at the zoo. Everybody is very pleased with the situation, especially the animals. The woods are forbidden. None of the adults dare go into the woods. The children, however, find themselves there. When it turns out no one is going to rescue them from the woods, the children won't give up, but start building a machine that would help them.
Troublemaker Tommy
2021
NRThere are too many people and animals at the zoo. Everybody is very pleased with the situation, especially the animals. The woods are forbidden. None of the adults dare go into the woods. The children, however, find themselves there. When it turns out no one is going to rescue them from the woods, the children won't give up, but start building a machine that would help them.
Troublemaker Tommy
2021
3.0A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation homogeneous for a long time, but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
The Pearlman
2006
3.0A smart leader can keep the culture of his nation homogeneous for a long time, but he is helpless against the interchange of genes.
The Pearlman
2006
8.0Before Christmas, a curious world of elves wakes up. Snow-white elves make gifts from snow and ice. During the work, the elves themselves become colorful - their world acquires a sense of beauty and existence.
The Dwarf Tree
1991
8.0Before Christmas, a curious world of elves wakes up. Snow-white elves make gifts from snow and ice. During the work, the elves themselves become colorful - their world acquires a sense of beauty and existence.
The Dwarf Tree
1991
NRThe development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. Every living being tries to indulge and laze. Unfortunately, development doesn't happen this way. The gene chain only rusts. Progress will only be made if there is an urgent need for it. The protagonist's rusty gene chain only starts working when the fear of death arises. What code is hidden in the human gene chain becomes clear during development. Mankind has debated the meaning of life for a long time, not knowing that it has long been found. What everyone is striving for is collectively creating strange patterns. After that, we become the starting point of a new gene chain again.
Code
2021
NRThe development of nature is controlled by the genetic chain. Life goes on as the information code is stored in the gene chain. Every living being tries to indulge and laze. Unfortunately, development doesn't happen this way. The gene chain only rusts. Progress will only be made if there is an urgent need for it. The protagonist's rusty gene chain only starts working when the fear of death arises. What code is hidden in the human gene chain becomes clear during development. Mankind has debated the meaning of life for a long time, not knowing that it has long been found. What everyone is striving for is collectively creating strange patterns. After that, we become the starting point of a new gene chain again.
Code
2021
Human being is the slave of his imagination. It is a long and complicated journey of finding one's way out of it, and it requires a good memory.
Oracle is Born
2011
5.0What happens when the Maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?
Instinct
2003
5.0What happens when the Maker loses control over his creation and it starts to obey its own will?
Instinct
2003
6.0In life, there are good things and important things. And then there are vital things. If you want to survive, you must not let comfort dull your instincts: you must fight for life long before war reaches your doorstep. And if war is already at your door, drawing the curtains won’t help, and it might just happen that the most sensible advice comes from where you least expect it – for example, from a life-experienced parrot.
Idyll
2025
8.0A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.
Theatre Papa Carlo
1988
8.0A totalitarian society destroys itself, sooner or later the people cannot take it anymore and then, over papa Carlo's body, a path to the doors of freedom is laid.
Theatre Papa Carlo
1988