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Browse 49 movies from Estonian Academy of Arts
A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.
Feb 2010
The nameless man, left alone in a sterile office environment, rethinks his existence. He hears the Alentejo song, a traditional Portuguese chant that shows him a different world from the meaningless everyday existence of work and society that he knows.
Jan 2019
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Jan 2011
The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.
Nov 2011
A cold-hearted boy walks through a freezing city, trying to connect with its inhabitants, but receives only cold rejection. After searching for ways to protect himself from the icy wind, he must decide whether to forget his fears and risk being vulnerable.
Nov 2020
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
Nov 2019
Powerless against a repressive state, a young couple leaves the country – an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare
May 2025
Strange Company - a monkey, a bear, and a centipede are intensely engaged in playing a board game. However, there is more at stake than just game pieces.
Nov 2023
Fairytale full of light, magic and nostalgia. A clay doll awakens her surroundings that become a surreal world in constant flow of change. Shot with natural light, the visible changes of daylight emphasize the passage of time in the film.
Jun 2014
A trip across the cosmos.
Jun 2020
An addicted biker runs out of cigarettes. He joins a race to get more, but has to take help from some peculiar people in the audience to stay in the competition.
Jun 2015
The man spent most of his life in prison. His body is covered with tattoos that describe his criminal past and symbolize his high authority. However, the moment comes when he is released, will it be easy for a person to leave his comfort zone?
Jan 2017
Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long working trip. Accidentally he falls in love with a very strange beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. He suffers from insomnia, which he treats by watching billiards on TV. But now it doesn’t help anymore. His obsessive passion keeps him awake…
Oct 2020
Into a starry sky full of coloured spots! The propellers have been revved up. Accompanied by the drone and roar of the engine, the aircraft takes off. Its mission, to be followed live: compare images, sort out, superimpose, create a visual reality of dots and pixels. A park is requested, but with how many trees? A racy car is dreamt of, but which design is sleek enough? The variables dictated by the pilot determine what appears on the monitor – sculptures of possibilities or morphed set pieces. The tank is filled with millions of continuously flowing images for an infinite number of combinations. But who controls the projected flight path?
Oct 2024
A woman is caught up with house chores after someone rings her door.
Aug 2016
Sometimes life is like packed sardines - it is so narrow to be that you just can't exist. You can try to escape from that situation or try to hide yourself. There is more air to breathe in your own mind world than in real world. This is how thinks the protagonist of this film, who hides himself into the mass of the other people, where no-one can see him and where it is possible for him to be in peace.
Jan 2010
Me singing along to "Love Hurts". I'm wearing headphones and cannot hear my own singing.
Dec 2015
The gentle warmth of morning. This desire - is it love? The vigor! The passion! A fatal blunder! It’s time for breakfast.
Oct 2021
Two old couples make their dull lives more interesting through cheating and deception. Everything is going well till their web of lies is destroyed by fate.
Jan 2008
A young woman is struggling with memory loss. One night, aliens barge into her room and connect her to an array of machines to study her brain. Once inside, they all discover her fading memories that blend into her dreams in a melancholic and psychedelic trip. Reality becomes subjective as she tries to make sense of what’s left.
Jun 2025