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Browse 49 movies from Estonian Academy of Arts
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
Stop motion characters stumble and fumble their way through a clearing in the woods.
Jan 2011
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 brief encounter with a Golden snake leads to unexpected consequences.
Jan 2019
Powerless against a repressive state, a young couple leaves the country – an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare
May 2025
A woman is caught up with house chores after someone rings her door.
Aug 2016
A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.
Nov 2019
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 woman and a man in a vital fight - over an empty milk carton.
Feb 2010
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
An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.
Dec 2020
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
Fisherman trying to catch a mermaid.
Jan 2010
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 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.
Jan 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.
A man and a woman eat. Inside the room, there is a fly. The woman obliges the man to get rid of the fly.
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 trip across the cosmos.
Jun 2020