International Animation Festival
21—27 September 2026
Syros Island, Cyclades, Greece
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ANIMASYROS PRODUCTIONS
As the autumn arrives the birds fly to the South, the ground is covered with snow and the winter begins. The animals and insects who are left behind hide from the cold and snow. The flowers are destroyed in the rough wind, the fragile porcelain animals crack and fall to pieces in the freezing cold. Only a small porcelain girl is left alone standing in the snowfall on the snowy landscape without nowhere to go or a place to hide. On Weary Wings Go By continues the story of nature and porcelain animals that started in a tropical jungle in Winter In The Rainforest.
Written and Directed Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Production Design Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, DOP Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Music Maarja Nuut, Sound Design Olga Bulygo, Produced Marianne Ostrat, Agnė Adomėnė.
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated with a MA degree in animation at Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013. She made her first animation Fly Mill/ Kärbeste veski (2012) a puppet film as her graduation film. Fly Mill has screened in more than hundred festivals around the world and won numerous prizes. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film On The Other Side Of The Woods/ Teisel pool metsa premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival and has won three First Prizes and a Best Debut prize at festivals. For the past ten years Anu-Laura has been working on a stop-motion trilogy of films shot outdoors with porcelain puppets as characters. The first in the trilogy Winter In The Rainforest shot in the jungles of Mexico and Peru premiered at Annecy International Animation Festival in June 2019. It received three Grand Prix’s and eight special prizes at festivals. The second film On Weary Wings Go By shot at the snowy beach in the winter in Estonia and Norway premiered at the prestigious Locarno film festival in August 2024. The third film of the trilogy is yet to be made. Anu-Laura has made set designs for numerous stop motion animations such as The Lemonade Tale (2013) by Vallo Toomla, Tik-Tak (2015), Empty Space (2016) and ‘Til We Meet Again (2021) by Ülo Pikkov at Nukufilm studio in Estonia. She has worked as a puppet designer for a feature stop motion Morten on the Ship of Fools (2018, Estonia, Ireland, Belgium) by Kaspar Jancis and a short stop motion film Man Wanted (2019, Greece, Estonia) by Irida Zhonga. Anu-Laura Tuttelberg teaches animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.