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Browse 49 movies from Estonian Academy of Arts
A celebration of the multitude of the forms, textures and colours of nature through 527 autumn leaves.
Jan 2023
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
Late at night, there are animals minding their own business beside a lake. Some of them meet at the end, and then they drink tea and making sticky rice happily together ever since. This is a film about metaphors, view with a caution.
Oct 2019
A visualisation of sense perceptions, imagined worlds and memories of the past as the author. The revived images of memories also reflect current reality, as they are inevitably impacted by the experience of the present.
Nov 2022
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 lively little girl runs across the field until she notices a dead bird lying on the ground. The soul leaves the bird’s body and starts moving towards the forest which the curious girl decides to follow. Not knowing what lies ahead, the child falls into the dark spirit world and must find her way back home.
Nov 2024
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Jan 2011
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
Nov 2019
A woman is caught up with house chores after someone rings her door.
Aug 2016
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
First vanquish the opponent and then embark on the quest to find whatever is at the end of the line that tethers him to this world.
Nov 2017
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
An elderly couple is addicted to a psychedelic face cream.
Apr 2019
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
An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.
Dec 2020
A man and a woman eat. Inside the room, there is a fly. The woman obliges the man to get rid of the fly.
Jan 2014
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
Fisherman trying to catch a mermaid.
Jan 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
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