
Directing
Priit Tender
Born
1971-02-07 (55)
Place of birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Known for
Directing
Credits
27 titles
Priit Tender (born February 7, 1971 in Tallinn) is an Estonian animator and animated film director. His animation films have won numerous prizes from international animation film festivals. Since 2019, he has been the head of the animation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Known for
4.0Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld, under one condition - Orpheus must reach the land of the living before looking to see if his love is following him.
Orpheus
2019
6.7Carrot unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes hunted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays him again and again. The coming of beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
Carrot!
2003
6.7Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Dog Apartment
2022
7.0A burnt out violinist performs a morbid show every night with his dancer wife.
Viola
1999
NRA man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach…
The Maggot Feeder
2012
7.0Our hero Udo embarks on something that can imagine a hike. Along the way, he meets some mildly absurd characters.
Gravity
1996
Behind the camera
4.0Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld, under one condition - Orpheus must reach the land of the living before looking to see if his love is following him.
Orpheus
2019
4.0Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, even animals and plants. His song can also rescue his beloved Euredice from the underworld, under one condition - Orpheus must reach the land of the living before looking to see if his love is following him.
Orpheus
2019
6.7Carrot unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes hunted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays him again and again. The coming of beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
Carrot!
2003
6.7Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Dog Apartment
2022
6.7Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Dog Apartment
2022
7.0A burnt out violinist performs a morbid show every night with his dancer wife.
Viola
1999
7.0A burnt out violinist performs a morbid show every night with his dancer wife.
Viola
1999
NRA man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach…
The Maggot Feeder
2012
NRA man decides to kill his wife because she can’t have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach…
The Maggot Feeder
2012
7.0Our hero Udo embarks on something that can imagine a hike. Along the way, he meets some mildly absurd characters.
Gravity
1996
7.0Our hero Udo embarks on something that can imagine a hike. Along the way, he meets some mildly absurd characters.
Gravity
1996
7.3Two American secret agents - Frank and Wendy - are sent to the world's hotbed of danger, known as Estonia. Estonia is a silly place, perhaps even sillier than the agents themselves. Frank and Wendy, for whom saving the world is their daily work, achieve both mental and manual feats with the greatest of ease. It appears that nothing can prevent their ultimate victory, but go figure. The axis of evil does not wither and attacks the super-agents from where they can least expect it...
Frank & Wendy
2005
9.0The film is based on a legend of the Mapuche Indians. It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, but gets cruelly cast down. In the film the personification of animals provides this slightly absurd legend with social context.
Fox Woman
2002
9.0The film is based on a legend of the Mapuche Indians. It is the story about a fox that goes to heaven to visit her uncle, but gets cruelly cast down. In the film the personification of animals provides this slightly absurd legend with social context.
Fox Woman
2002
NRA fairytale about the mice and the raven, which is stronger and which is cleverer.
The Crow and Mice
1998
NRA fairytale about the mice and the raven, which is stronger and which is cleverer.
The Crow and Mice
1998
10.0This film is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most frequently.
House of Unconsciousness
2015
10.0This film is based on a long-term study of the dreams of chimney sweepers. The most frequently encountered images have been selected from the abundant material available and the script was created on the basis of those images. Statistics support the claim that this film presents one of the dreams that chimney sweepers encounter most frequently.
House of Unconsciousness
2015
NRIt's about a man, a snake, a drunk penguin and the disappearance of birds. It's about an apple tree and apples, roots and rootlessness. It's about paradise and being expelled from it.
Bird Flu
2016
NRIt's about a man, a snake, a drunk penguin and the disappearance of birds. It's about an apple tree and apples, roots and rootlessness. It's about paradise and being expelled from it.
Bird Flu
2016
NRSeven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste and illustrated it with a two- to three-minute cartoon. Leading actors of the Estonian theater and cinema, as well as the authors of the poems themselves, took part in the dubbing.
Black Ceiling
2007
Anti has worked as a TV-set repairman all his life. One day, he realizes that everything around him needs to be repaired.
A Message for the Neighbors
2005
7.0An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.
Mont Blanc
2001
7.0An aging man leaves his wife and sets off on his way to Fujiyama, the mountain of his dreams.
Mont Blanc
2001
NRThree orchestrated journeys to the hitherto unknown dimensions of a kitchen in the morning.
Dimensions of the Kitchen
2008
NRThree orchestrated journeys to the hitherto unknown dimensions of a kitchen in the morning.
Dimensions of the Kitchen
2008
Miriam and her little brother play hide and seek with the chicken. There is some confusion when the chicken is locked in the cupboard and tomato sauce is spilled on the ground.
Miriam Plays Hide and Seek
2004
