Estonian Academy of Arts

An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.

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?

Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.

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.

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.

A woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.

A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.

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.

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.

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?

The animated short film is based on a true story of a young couple from Saint Petersburg and tells about helplessness in the face of a repressive state, departure from which becomes a surreal nightmare.

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.

A strange guest changes a middle-aged Siberian man’s life. Absurdity and realism are combined together into a small wooden cabin where there’s no room for hope.

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.

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.

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.

Four flawed friends travel to tropics where things go wrong.

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.

The gentle warmth of morning. This desire - is it love? The vigor! The passion! A fatal blunder! It’s time for breakfast.

An elderly couple is addicted to a psychedelic face cream.