Sewing Machine
Estonia2024documentary16'Special Screening
'Sewing Machine' is a film about the town of Pechory (Petseri) and its people, told through the life story of director’s great-grandmother and her newborn baby who had to be hidden in a sewing machine box.
- directed by
- Ülo Pikkov
Estonian animated film director. He was born in 1976 in Tallinn. After graduation from the Higher School of Arts and Media in Turku in 1998, he became associated with the film studio Eesti Joonisfilm. In 2005, he earned a degree in Law from the University of Tartu. He is an expert of the Estonian Film Fund, an extraordinary professor at the Animation Faculty of the Estonian Academy of Arts and an author of illustrations and books. Pikkov has made almost 20 animated films screened at the biggest film festivals.
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