Merit Kask

Dans l’intimité des saunas sacrés d’Estonie, tous les rituels de la vie se croisent. Les femmes y racontent ce qu’elles taisent partout ailleurs, et dans la fumée des pierres brûlantes, la condition féminine apparaît, dans toute sa vérité et sa force éternelle.

A documentary about a group of activists in Tallinn who try to improve their quarter.

In her fondest dreams, this film’s main character Leila (Riina Maidre) is a resplendent singer. In reality, however, all her energy and talent is spent on relationships that eat away at her soul, mind-altering substances, and glamorous showing-off. Heleri defies the rules. By playing with the possibilities of the art of film, she takes the viewer to an uneasy universe where the boundary between reality and illusion is incredibly thin. This is a world that is familiar to everyone who at some point in their life had to grow up and admit to themselves that dreaming is not enough on its own. And who have regardless of that chosen dreaming.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

A man sent to Afghanistan years earlier converts to Islam, then returns home to fight a different kind of war.