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This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people prematurely exposed to death.

A crisis in a young woman's life forces her to return to her parents' home. Her reappearance disrupts the delicate balance in the family nest. In their film, a collective of Israeli students offers a casual take on a rather common life situation. But they choose an unusual metaphorical portrayal easily understandable to everyone.

This film influenced by surrealism uses very little space to visualise the feelings of boredom and emptiness. The only escape from them is the garden behind the bedroom window. In it, the astonished hero finds human limbs. But a leg, a hand or a mouth aren’t terrifying; on the contrary, they challenge the hero to a game that enables him to perform a certain form of self-analysis and look for balance.

In this film, we – in “an Estonian way” – watch a peculiar relationship between a man and a woman that is stuck in stereotypical activities symbolised, among other things, by washing and hanging laundry. An instinctive need for contact between the partners has created an unhealthy addictive relationship which cannot work for long. But what will stop the endless “washing cycle”?

Elise, who lives in a retirement home, realises she's losing control of her life: Alzheimer's prevents her from understanding the world and leaves her just a few memories to cling on to. Soon, the presence of her daughter, her last anchor to reality, won't be enough to keep her from diving into her memories. The artistic style of the film indicates that colours and contours have also vanished.

Jack Brown’s graduation film uses the aesthetics of American road movies. We follow a young man who is looking for his musically gifted dog that ran away. But as it happens on hot desert roads, unusual things start occurring and our hero meets weird characters. Will the owner and his dog meet at the evening performance despite all their difficulties?

A woman walks home at night. She is overwhelmed from behind by a stranger. He grabs her and tries to rip off her clothes. They fight. The point of view switches between man and woman. Reality and fears blur into each other. A new point of view is involved: eyewitnesses who live in surrounding houses. They look down at an escaping perpetrator and a helpless victim. But for the woman herself this situation is not so clear.

A little girl seems lost in a house full of mourning guests. Everyone is getting ready for a funeral. But she fails to see the meaning in what they’re doing and we cannot blame her for it. The absurd scenes in which we see the bereaved people are not very usual. In order to overcome difficulties, we sometimes need to face them with humour.

Four French friends are doing a road trip across the United States. In the middle of the desert, they pick up a really strange hitchhiker. From this moment their journey won't go as well as they thought. In their film, six French students combine 3D computer animation with typically rough gangster dialogues.

Dark apartments and closed-up spaces create an atmosphere in which peculiar obsessions bubble up. A mother and son relationship takes an unexpected turn, which leads to a dramatic change in their fates. This film, remarkable not only in terms of its technique and style, uses various ways to cause deep unease in its viewers which they won’t shake off until the film’s horror ending.

While having an exciting summer swim and diving one after another into the water at the foot of a cliff, the main character is unexpectedly separated from the rest of his group of friends by an unsurpassable cliff edge and amplified experience. An animation inspired by the phenomenon of acrophobia – fear of heights.

On an isolated cactus farm, three frightened birds ask cowgirl Rose to help put a stop to a dangerous axeman. But she can’t find him and meanwhile something terrifying happens with the surrounding forest. Rose then unexpectedly becomes “the woman who planted trees”. This film with a changing atmosphere uses psychedelia and humour to convey an ecological and political message.

Entropia contains three parallel universes where three girls are living in different circumstances. One of them represents the animalistic side of human nature, one of them is a consumer filled with her own frustrations, and the third one is living in a futuristic room where she has to run to keep the system working. But a fly gets in and breaks the system.