Olga Pärn

Olga Pärn (née Marchenko; born 1 January 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.

Divers in the Rain (2009)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Kaspar Jancis

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Kaspar Jancis

Pilots on the Way Home (2014)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST: 

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST: 

The Eyeless Hunter. A Khanty Story (2017)

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

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Timofei Moldanov

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

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Timofei Moldanov

Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST: 

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST: 

I Feel in the Back of My Head... (2007)

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

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Ksenja Agarkova  •  Marko Matvere

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

DIRECTION:  Priit Pärn  •  Olga Pärn
CAST:  Ksenja Agarkova  •  Marko Matvere