JJ: Every Inch a King
(Jüri Järvet: Iga toll kuningas)
Documentary about Jüri Järvet, Estonia’s most internationally successful and best-known actor.
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2026; Director: Taavi Arus)
Lex Julia
Three people on an island confront a shared past.
(Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Laura Hyppönen; Writer: Laura Hyppönen; Stars: Rea Lest-Liik, Christian Hillborg, Jessica Grabowsky)
Living On
(Gyventi)
The director volunteered to drive cars carrying medical aid to Ukraine’s frontlines. Between August 2024 and June 2026, he documented his experiences on fifteen dangerous missions using his own equipment.
Documentary following an elderly fisherman whose catch is becoming scarcer and who collects amber from the beach to make jewellery.
(Country: Lithuania; Year: 2026; Director: Francesco Rufini; Writer: Francesco Rufini, Indrė Bručkutė; Stars: Arūnas Želvys)
The Perfect
(Täiuslikud)
A portrait of female dancers across generations and the sacrifices ballet demands.
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2026; Director: Laura Liventaal)
La Pieta
At the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before climate change had a name. Documentary blending observation with found footage.
A vampire posing as Santa Claus invades the home of a family whose rebellious teenage daughter wants only one thing: to become a vampire herself and escape her miserable life.
After five years studying in Tallinn, artist Karolina Peterson (aka Kara Popicon) returns to her hometown of Riga. Expecting a fun-filled reunion with the city of her youth, she instead finds herself feeling like a stranger in her own native city.
Ukraine after the annexation. Haunted and reckless, Mykhailo returns to bury his father, only to discover that the old man has effectively been a ghost for 20 years. Like Schrödinger’s cat, he seems ready to reappear at any moment.
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania; Year: 2026; Director: Martin Kuba; Writer: Martin Kuba, Marek Grajciar; Stars: Makar Tikhomirov, Vytautas Kaniušonis, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Juhan Ulfsak, Hannusya Yarmolenko)
To Die To Live
In 2014, three young men with no military experience whatsoever volunteered to go to the front line in eastern Ukraine. They spent two years there, near Donetsk, Luhansk and Shirokyne. Then they returned home and tried to live like ordinary people again: work, family, evenings with friends. But they cannot quite manage it.
In a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine, where burying the dead has been forbidden, the church of a young priest, Andriy, has been turned into a morgue for executed Ukrainian civilians. As the occupation tightens its grip, Andriy quietly begins to resist, secretly returning the bodies to their families at great personal risk.
