Directing

Aarne Ahi

Born

1943-09-11 (83)

Place of birth

Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Aarne Ahi (11.09.1943) is an animator and director, who firstly started his career as a gaffer at Tallinnfilm. Few years later he worked for at Tallinnfilm’s department of puppetry. His biggest inspiration and mentor was one of the founding fathers of the Estonian puppet animation Heino Pars. You could say that Aarne Ahi is a multitalented man since he has worked as an animator, director, crafter etc. He is known for “Miriam’s Gnome” (2003), “Mighty Crayfish and Greedy Wife” (1985) or “The House Spirit” (1991). Also helped with some fiction films, for example “Somnambulance” (2003) and “Letters from the East” (1995). Later, he started his work at Nukufilm and collaborating with Finland filmm…

Known for

9.0

A greedy fox steals the presents from Santa’s sleigh.

The House Spirit

1991

9.0

Protecting the Earth from the uncontrolled exploitation of its wealth.

Sweet Planet

1987

8.0

A wordless parable about how a living bird turned into a wooden one and began to sing in a wooden choir.

The Conductor

1988

Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute. While the man was walking, a ball falls from the sky, and he gets the idea to build a machine in his head. At first it was just a cart. Time flies quickly, and the man finds himself in the 20th century, where he transforms the cart into a car and tests it.