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The life of a barn swallow is not easy. Everything gets mixed up while returning from Africa: bigger birds are pesky, ghastly shadows from previous centuries annoyingly stalky; the clay is all gone and the barn locked at night.

Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.

Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.

In this decidedly cheeky and deliriously fun animation, a decent, hard-working wolf must rely on his physical gifts in order to make ends meet for the sake of his family.

On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"; Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson; Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin; Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan; Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and Kane Surry; Timothy Ryan Hickernell's "Foreign Lovers" co-starring Lucio Nieto; Layke Anderson's "Mankind" starring Ricky Nixon and Alexis Gregory; Christopher Manning's "Isha" starring Horia Săvescu and Dario Coates; Jay Russell's "ruok" starring Peter Mark Kendall, Zachary Booth, and Sydney James Harcourt; Chintis Lundgren's animated "Manivald"; and Zoe McIntosh's "The World In Your Window" starring Joe Folau and David Lolofakangalo Rounds.

It's a mysterious story about a black stork, some frogs and a terrible danger lurking deep in the Estonian swamps.

Anything can go wrong on the way to Africa.

A story about the adventures of a young ice bird and the difficulties of starting an independent life.

In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And unlike dogs, who have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats. How did these solitary, fierce predators become our sofa sidekicks? Eva-Maria Geigl traces the domestication of the modern house cat.

Judge Saima's life unravels after her partner's affair and the arrival of a mysterious frog linked to her past. Haunted by nightmares, a failed ritual, and an unexpected pregnancy, she must reconnect with her estranged mother to break free and protect her newborn son.

Montego has killed his best friend.. several times already. But still he keeps reappearing on streetcorners and dark alleys. Boris, the scarred leader of the underground resistance gave the order just before becoming totally detached from himself. Brussels and the Red Cube, also an organisation called the Evil Script have a part to play in Montegos strange paranoid world.

They’re cute, they’re lovable, and judging by the 26 billion views on over 2 million YouTube videos of them, one thing is certain: cats are very entertaining. But their strange feline behaviors, both amusing and baffling, leave many of us asking: Why do cats do that? Tony Buffington explains the science behind some of your cat’s strangest behaviors.

Five fresh short films on the theme "With the best intentions" from even fresher Estonian directors.