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Browse 49 movies from Estonian Academy of Arts
Powerless against a repressive state, a young couple leaves the country – an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare
May 2025
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
Nov 2019
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Jan 2011
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
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 talented juggler's life takes a sudden twist when his treasured juggling balls are stolen. Determined to retrieve his cherished possessions, he embarks on an adventure, aided by acrobatic rabbits, dancing frogs and some shocking truths about his own existence.
Sep 2024
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
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
A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.
Feb 2010
A woman is caught up with house chores after someone rings her door.
Aug 2016
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
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
An elderly couple is addicted to a psychedelic face cream.
Apr 2019
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 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
An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.
Dec 2020
Fisherman trying to catch a mermaid.
Jan 2010
One of the inhabitants of a totalitarian nursery home has a secret, that is beneficial for the others, but harmful for himself.
Jan 2015
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
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