Estonian Academy of Arts

Fisherman trying to catch a mermaid.

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 passing of time in the film.

Animated short film

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.

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.

Experimental abstract animation based on "Liivaterade Raamat" composed by Liis Viira. This short film is improvised by animating in stop-motion different objects through optical lenses.

It is the monodrama of a white-white paper.

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 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.

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

An alien arrives to earth in hopes of being casted as the lead of a sci-fi film

An elderly couple is addicted to a psychedelic face cream.

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.

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…

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.

Four flawed friends travel to tropics where things go wrong.

Mr. Notakiwi wants to merge into the community. Is society ready to embrace him and his song?

A celebration of the multitude of the forms, textures and colours of nature through 527 autumn leaves.

Me singing along to "Love Hurts". I'm wearing headphones and cannot hear my own singing.

It’s the end of a long day where domestic routine is interrupted by irritative inconveniences. A reflection of the problems that come with living.