While Estonian animation is very well known on red carpets all around the world, unfortunately, that's not the case here in Estonia. That’s why it brings us such joy that sometimes someone asks the right questions at the right time, and as a result we are able to see almost all short animations that have been made this year in Estonia. It is a colourful selection, each film in it completely unique. There are also foreign names amongst us: it happens now and again that some Estonian Academy of Arts Animation MA programme graduates never want to leave our friendly anima family or they just keep coming back. We all have difficult and long roads to walk. So do our characters. Whatever you are working with – porcelain, pixels, classic animation puppets, plasticine, sand, lines, real filmmakers – all of us have an animus, a soul that carries us through it all. Through tough times, absurd, challenges, magic, doubts and humour. On and on. Enjoy the journey!